Ricerc@Sapienza

In the history of human creativity, the act of imagining the impossible has been at the core of the physical and metaphysical perception of the unknown. The scholarly debate regarding the nature of the impossible gained particular relevance in the context of British Enlightenment when the expanding sciences, along with literature, attempted to provide empirical validation to inexplicable and supernatural phenomena.

The huge success of the television series Black Mirror has radically changed the already rich landscape of televised seriality. Since the very first episode it has imposed itself as a radical turning point in the TV series offer, both in terms of quality and ability to animate debate, also triggering fandom phenomena within the increasingly inter-connected medial ecosystem experienced by users.