NOTES
- obsession with humans being quantified
- an urgency that we have to be ‘desired’
- obsequiousness nature of human beings
- technological social animals
- dark, satirical commentary
- ‘apocalypse of the modern world’
- disintegration of humanity, a sense of de-humanisation
- festivals such as weddings which were ‘pure’ loses its ‘innocence’, it turns into something ugly and grotesque
- A.I and its omnipresent being
- technology vs emotion
- technology and humans become similar in the way they behave – emotionless, mute and conform
- no existence of love, an admonishing of a dystopian future
- technology prevailing over humanity
Thesis – Through human quantification, as seen in Nosedive through the ‘rating system’, there is a ‘detatchment’ or a ‘dehumanisation’ that takes place which engenders a fundamental moral change in us. Through the themes of morality, humans as ‘technological animals’ and quantification, we can see the greater idea of this ‘dehumanisation’