دانلود کتاب Reintegrating Severance: Interdisciplinary Insights on Apple TV’s Dystopian Thriller

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Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1 Introduction
List of Season 1 Episodes and Air Dates11
Cast12
Notes
Bibliography
Part I Constructing History
2 “Who Are You?”: Memory, History, and Nostalgia on the Severed Floor
The “SVR’D” Self
“In Perpetuity”
Mapping Kier, P.E.
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
3 The Grim Barbarity of Capitalist Designs: Class Conflict, Corporate Dystopia, and the Sacred Gaze in Severance
Kier and the Tempers
Perpetuity and the “Lumon Legacy of Joy”
“The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design”
“The Courtship of Kier and Imogene”
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
4 Severed from Reality: The Irrationality of Rationality in Advanced-Stage Capitalism
The Severance Procedure
The Original “Severance”
The Myth of the Work–Life Severance
Severance in the Modern Workplace
The Promise of Sociology and the Innies Need for a Sociological Imagination
Notes
Bibliography
Part II Art & Architecture
5 Art as an Apparatus of the Invisible Sublime in Severance
Abstract Minimalist Aesthetics, and the Sublime of the “Black Square”
Nature-Originated Sublime Transforming into the Invisible Sublime
The Dark Matters
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
6 Mapping the Subject Through Severance’s Corporate Architecture and Design
Architecture and Subjectivation
Lumon’s Corporate Architecture and Severed Subjectivity
Innies and Outies: Subjectivation Outside the Severed Floor
Fugitive Mapping and Collective Resistance
Notes
Bibliography
7 Resisting the Innie/Outie Dichotomy Through Mundane Encounters: In Defense of “Spaces of Transition”
Introduction
What Are “Spaces of Transition”?
All Space, No Transition: Severance
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Part III Agency, Autonomy, and Alienation
8 An Investigation of Marxist Alienation in the Postmodern Workplace in Apple TV\'s Severance
Background
Alienation in Severance
Work Versus Private Personas
The Gamification of Work as Play
Severance as Commentary on Work, Corporations, and Technology
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
9 Brain Eugenics: How to Produce an Ideal Worker?
Lumon Industries as a Capitalist Moloch
Becoming “Dividual”
Architecture as a Means of Subjectification
Conclusion: Let’s Burn This Place to the Ground
Notes
Bibliography
10 “Defiant Jazz”: Corporate Rewards as Plantation-Style Oppression in Apple TV’s Severance
“Hail Kier”: Leader Worship, the Handbook, and Direct Oppression
“The Egg Bar is Coveted as Fuck:” Lumon Incentives
“Forced Labor?”: Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
11 The Waffle Party Is Not What It Seems: Sexual, Reproductive, and Labor Exploitation in Severance
Labor Exploitation, the Fictional Workplace, and Work–Life Balance
Sexual Exploitation
Pregnancy and Reproductive Exploitation
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Part IV Multifaceted Minds and Bodies
12 The Aesthetic Virtue of the Severance Procedure: Pledging Spectatorial Allegiance to Both Innies and Outies
Introduction
Severance on the Character, (Re)Integration on the Spectator
The Concept of Spectatorial Allegiance
Pledging Allegiance to Whom?
Helly Versus Outie Mark
Innie Mark Versus Outie Mark
Innie Burt
Milchick
Ms. Casey
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
13 “Actively Caring for Mankind Since 1866”: Nineteenth-Century Medicine, Pain, and the Worker’s Body in Season 1 of Severance
The Founding of Lumon Industries
Nineteenth-Century Ether and the Numbing of Pain
Severance and the Numbing of Pain
Notes
Bibliography
14 “The Mystery of Your Youthful Energy”: Time, History, and the Representation of Queer Aging in Severance
Complex TV: The New Televisual Narrative
Representations of Aging and Narrative Time
Queer Visibility, Representation, and Futurity
The Widow Next Door: Harmony Cobel/Mrs. Selvig
Optics and Design/The Perpetuity Wing: Finding Queer Representation Through Art
Retirement: Aging out of Capitalism?
Notes
Bibliography
15 Self-Communication in Severed Minds: Perspectives from Neuroscience, Psychology, and Philosophy
Modularity of Mind
Modularity and Encapsulation
Episodic Memory
Memory Consolidation
Semantic Memory
Implicit Memory
Memory and Emotion
Mechanisms of Reintegration
Philosophies of the Self
Death and Immortality
Notes
Bibliography
Index