In “Nosedive,” Lacie Pound navigates a futuristic social media world in which a single “rep report” metric determines everything about her life, from employment prospects to credit worthiness. The fat..
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In “Nosedive,” Lacie Pound navigates a futuristic social media world in which a single “rep report” metric determines everything about her life, from employment prospects to credit worthiness. The fate of Pound's “rep report” in “Nosedive” indexes the speed with which social precarity can be visited upon the citizens of what Gilles Deleuze has referred to as the society of control. This discussion takes up a close reading of “Nosedive,” to highlight the episode's illumination of several structures of feeling specific to the neoliberal regime of accumulation.
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