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Mr. Robot – Part Three: ‘…the voyeurs who think they aren’t a part of this…’: Mr. Robot and the Subject

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Jack Black (2020). ‘Mr. Robot – Part Three: …the voyeurs who think they aren’t a part of this…: Mr. Robot and the Subject’. Critical Studies in Television Online, 6 March.

The final part of a series on Mr. Robot examines its concluding scenes through Lacanian accounts of the gaze and subjectivity. It considers how the audience’s place as the addressed ‘friend’ becomes part of the series’ formal structure, and how the ending denies spectators a complete view of Elliot. This encounter with absence informs the essay’s account of the subject and the possibility of freedom.