“The maze wasn’t made for you”: Artificial consciousness and reflexive narration in Westworld (HBO, 2016-)
TV Series February 26, 2019 Florent Favard
This paper describes how the science fiction television series Westworld (HBO, 2016-present) questions the very nature of consciousness through a reflexive narrative blending matters of free will and self interest with clues on how to write a serial character, thus drawing on the rich heritage of narratively complex science fiction television series of the last decades. After detailing the...
DOI: 10.4000/tvseries.3040 (opens in new tab)
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Narration
Reflexivity
Television series
Consciousness
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