Abstract
This paper analyses “The Entire History of You”, from the British TV series Black Mirror (season 1, episode 3, written by Jesse Armstrong, directed by Brian Welsh), focusing on the way it addresses and represents issues related to surveillance and social control. This analysis will focus on the episode’s ability to produce a fracture in the narrative framework by which discourses and visual imageries are nowadays formulated, represented, and enjoyed around the theme of surveillance. It will be argued that the critical potentialities of this episode lie in the ability to produce a new image of surveillance devices and of subjectivization. In the specific, this new image can be articulated into three main issues: the hedonistic matrix that today characterizes our relation with surveillance; the fluid and mobile network of surveillance, wherein elements can be reconfigured to occupy different positions and roles; its normative character and the action of normalization working in the society of control.