Body, gender and sexuality in Black Mirror: audiovisual cartographies

CARTOGRAFIAS AUDIOVISUAIS

Abstract

Just like the telenovelas of the past in Latin America, international series are today a productive cultural artifact in the tangle of semiotic and discursive flows that dispute / forge the production of subjectivities in major Western cultures. In this article, steming from a from a media device, we have analyzed the tensions involving  the production of identity and difference as a potent element in studies of post-critical education, mapping issues of gender and sexuality (in intersectionality with other difference markers) that appear with greater emphasis in some episodes of the British series Black Mirror. This way, our cartographic route follows the following productions: "National Anthem", "Shut up and dance", "San Junipero", "Arkangel" and "Hang the DJ". We trust that, regardless of the intention of the people who created it, as it is consumed by hundreds of millions of people in different parts of the world, these episodes and their themes become part of moral disputes in the most diverse international and national arenas, interfering in the educational process of the populations.