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Abstract
The following essay explores the first season of Mr. Robot (2015 −) that was available at the time of this writing from the position of Deleuzian symptomatology, what he calls the tensions between the ‹clinical and the critical›. I attempt to show how this series offers us insights into our ‹society of control›, also a Deleuzian development, through its main figure Elliot Anderson. A comparison is made with the film «Kein System ist Sicher», which raises similar social issues through its narrative. While I do not address directly pedagogical media concerns, the implications are that such televised narratives confront the general public, what I call ‹everyman›, with the ethical problems and dilemmas of our globalized capitalist order.References
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