Welcome to the Black Mirror Library Podcast. Get your library cards out, listeners! We have released a reading list for season one. We will give further suggested reading in each episode as well, but we'll primarily focus on our announced selected texts. Check out the syllabus tab for your Series One reading. In this episode we share our own origin story for how our podcast came to be. Get prepared to watch Black Mirror with us, and then discuss books, television shows, films, and other podcast that relate to themes explored in each episode. Nonfiction and fiction in all mediums is up for grabs on our reading list! For this episode, we decided to read Utopia is Creepy and Other Provocations by Nicholas Carr to set the stage for the topics explored in Black Mirror as a whole. This book collects essays written by Carr over a decade and each essay can still be found in its blog post at rougtype.com. Check the show notes for links. Show Notes: Utopia is Creepy Essays Discussed: * Twitter Dot Dash (pg 34) * Should the Net Forget? (pg 47) * Resurrection/The Avatar of My Father (pg 69) The online blog posts varies slightly from the version published in the book * Utopia is Creepy (pg 108)