Reintegrating Severance

Manifesting the zeitgeist of our post-pandemic world, Apple TV's Severance probes the margins of work-life balance, the medicalization of normal human emotions, and the turbulence of disinformation, resistance, and reclamation. Fundamentally, the series grapples with systemization how we organize and construct our histories, art and architecture, social orders, and bodies and minds. Written for both fans and scholars, Reintegrating Severance collects fifteen critical essays, each offering deep insights into an issue spurred by the series. Constructing History explores identity in the context of historical revisionism and corporate mythology; Art & Architecture builds on the first section by exploring the use of visual culture in shaping collective and personal stories; Agency, Autonomy, and Alienation dives deep into the political theories that earlier chapters have touched upon; finally, Multifaceted Bodies and Minds strays from, and ultimately finds a way back to, the intuitive wisdom and intraconnection of the self.

Offers a comprehensive scholarly consideration of a popular TV series The first book entirely devoted to Severance Its interdisciplinarity will appeal to scholars across various fields

Autorentext

Nora M. Isacoff's scholarship integrates scientific and humanistic approaches to exploring mind, meaning, consciousness, and collaboration. She is the Founding Director of the New York Institute for Cognitive Science and the Humanities and a full-time Lecturer in the Discipline of Psychology at Columbia University, where she teaches interdisciplinary seminars such as "Consciousness and Cognitive Science" and "Language and Mind." She co-authored the book Data and Teaching (TC Press).

Jennifer Dawes is a professor and Chair of the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Her previous edited collection, Dark Tourism in the American West, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019. Her areas of scholarly interest include dark tourism, television, and cultural studies.

Klappentext

Manifesting the zeitgeist of our post-pandemic world, Apple TV's Severance probes the margins of work-life balance, the medicalization of normal human emotions, and the turbulence of disinformation, resistance, and reclamation. Fundamentally, the series grapples with systemization - how we organize and construct our histories, art and architecture, social orders, and bodies and minds. Written for both fans and scholars, Reintegrating Severance collects fifteen critical essays, each offering deep insights into an issue spurred by the series. Constructing History explores identity in the context of historical revisionism and corporate mythology; Art & Architecture builds on the first section by exploring the use of visual culture in shaping collective and personal stories; Agency, Autonomy, and Alienation dives deep into the political theories that earlier chapters have touched upon; finally, Multifaceted Bodies and Minds strays from, and ultimately finds a way back to, the intuitive wisdom and intraconnection of the self.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Constructing History.- Chapter 2: Who are you?: Memory, History, and Nostalgia on the Severed Floor.- Chapter 3: The Grim Barbarity of Capitalist Designs: Class Conflict, Corporate Dystopia, and the Sacred Gaze in Severance .- Chapter 4: Severed From Reality: The Irrationality of Rationality in Advanced Stage Capitalism.- Part II: Art and Architecture.- Chapter 5: Art as an Apparatus of the Invisible Sublime in Severance .- Chapter 6: Mapping the Subject through Severance' s Corporate Architecture and Design.- Chapter 7: Resisting the Innie/Outie Dichotomy Through Mundane Encounters: In Defense of Spaces of Transition.- Part III: Agency, Autonomy, and Alienation.- Chapter 8: An Investigation of Marxist Alienation in the Post-Modern Workplace in Apple TV's Severance.- Chapter 9: Brain Eugenics: How to Produce an Ideal Worker?.- Chapter 10: Defiant Jazz: Corporate Rewards as Plantation-Style Oppression in Apple TV's Severance .- Chapter 11: The Waffle Party is Not What It Seems: Sexual, Reproductive, and Labor Exploitation in Severance.- Part IV Multifaceted Bodies and Minds.- Chapter 12: The Aesthetic Virtue of the Severance Procedure: Pledging Spectatorial Allegiance to Both Innies and Outies.- Chapter 13: Actively Caring For Mankind Since 1866: Nineteenth-Century Medicine, Pain, and the Worker's Body in Season One of Severance .- Chapter 14: The Mystery of Your Youthful Energy: Time, History, and the Representation of Queer Aging in Severance.- Chapter 15: Self-Communication in Severed Minds: Perspectives from Neuroscience, Psychology, and Philosophy.