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Mr. Robot – Part One: ‘Our Democracy has been hacked’ – Critiquing Mr. Robot

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Jack Black (2020). ‘Mr. Robot – Part One: Our Democracy has been hacked – Critiquing Mr. Robot’. Critical Studies in Television Online, 21 February.

The first part of this series compares Mr. Robot’s anti-capitalist plot with Fight Club and considers the consequences of fsociety’s attack on E Corp’s debt records. It asks what follows an apparently successful act of disruption and examines the tension between the series’ critique of capitalism and its capacity to imagine political change.