REFLEXÕES SOBRE GÊNERO EM “BLACK MIRROR”:: DELICADOS FIOS DO CONTROLE E DA SUBJETIVIDADE CIBORGUE EM “SAN JUNIPERO”

Abstract

This article discusses the episode "San Junipero", fourth episode of the third season of the series Black Mirror, shown by Netflix. The gender relations established in the history of two women, in which technology establishes the mediation of the experiences lived by them, are taken under the notion of control society in Deleuze (1992), the cyborg concept of Haraway, Kunzuru and Silva (2000) ) and the cabinet epistemology in Sedgwick (2007). These analytical advisors point to some of the insights of an optimistic view about life and death, about eternity, about love, about the transfer of consciousness and desires between bisexual and lesbian women. As a methodology, we use the practices of audiovisual analysis from the conceptions of realistic reading and subversive reading of Flick (2009). The narrative of the episode points to interpretive possibilities at different levels of meaning. One of them is part of a confinement of the lesbianity of the protagonists from elements of the control society, the idea of ​​seclusion in the closet and the automation of the human and the dissident sexual orientations of the heteronormative pattern. Death, eternity and happiness are not idyllic, neither saving nor redeeming.