The predictable impact of technological overdrive and innovation on our daily lives has led to many fanciful speculations about how it will change our lives.
The predictable impact of technological overdrive and innovation on our daily lives has led to many fictional speculations about how it will change our lives. While experts are confident that society will reformulate working models for greater technological specialization and an explosion of soft skills in the workforce, thereby avoiding the effects of robotization, fictions tend to favor exaggerations with a moral background that serve as a warning in our relationship. with machines.
With the Black Mirror series, this century’s dystopian reference universe, at a time when a kind of technological hallucinogen and dystopian issue is being discussed (Against Dystopia, by Francisco Martorell Campos or Safe Place, by Isaac Rosa, we unbanned), very little dystopia, into an oversaturated genre with obvious signs of fatigue. It really brings new blood.
Not all robots from Mark Russell Y Mike Deodato Jr.manages to get rid of this feeling with an original proposal of the robotization of work and the destruction of the workforce, mass alienation, mass manipulation and planetary degradation. Essentially problems that already exist on the table. Realizing they’re not going to invent anything, Russell and Deodato triumph in this first volume to be published in Spain, thanks to the tone of the plot, the strength of perspective, and surprising plot twists that add a final salad in the key to the black comedy. Fresh and delicious, ideal for summer.
Fresh air in dystopian fiction
In this near future, 2056, humans live in stadium cities encapsulated by the planet’s mismanagement, and robots have replaced the human workforce and are handling the vast majority of tasks. Every family has a robot that represents them and takes their bread home, and protein capsules that smell and taste that we can’t even imagine.. Robots are growing in power, growth, self-awareness and sense of group, and humans are just as threatened as robots, becoming outdated and meaningless.
The first major events are unleashing anger in the streets, and a high-tension future is already being felt, to which world leaders have responded with clear flight. This canvas is viewed by the reader from the perspective of the Walter family, divided between technophobes and technophobes.and his robot, Rajator, collapsed and in vital unease, hovering between his job and his family garage, sharpening guns for his disturbing “game.”
If all robots with a black mix of laughter, restlessness, bewilderment and reflection fail to achieve their intentions, it’s because of its balance. Between grotesque humor, collective parody, decadence story, and surprising narrative pulse.
Connecting the destinies of humans and machines
The robots that draw a society with their feet on the gas pedal, even if they see the abyss at the end of the flat, does not show that all of the robots not only harm humanity, but also wear out their own innovation in days. This makes humans and machines equal in terms of aging, keeping those suffering from the digital divide at the same level, and creating a society that is useless, dependent, docile and easily manipulated. In that shared space between machine and humanproducing obvious paradoxes, creating a mirror effect in which some creatures and others are equally frustrated, cruel, childish, and blindWhere AI equates with humans in desires and defeats is where not all robots are great.
The disturbing and icy union between machines and humans Recalls the successful discovery of Tales from the LoopRetrofuturistic fiction inspired by drawings by Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag. Other than that, not all robots reject the existentialist option to bet on a macabre humor that leaves only hope in the final open door of this first and satisfying volume: man’s best friend.
Eisner Award for Best Comedy Work, it was also nominated for Best Comic Book of the Year in 2022. TV series that you won’t find on digital platforms (yet) this summer. The answer is on paper. Russell’s caustic script of a revamped Deodato, surprisingly far from superhero fiction, marked this sultry summer that triggered environmental alarm, a warning linked to the first part of this story.
Don’t kidnap.
