Sense8

This collection explores the many ways in which the Netflix series <i>Sense8</i> transcends television. As its characters transcend physical and psychological borders of gender and geography so the series itself transcends those between television new media platforms and new screen technologies while dissolving those between its producers stars audiences and fans. <i>Sense8</i>united inspired and energized a global community of fans that realized its own power by means of online interaction and a successful campaign to secure a series finale. The series' playful but poignant exploration of globalization empathy transnationalism queer and trans aesthetics gender fluidity imagined communities and communities of sentiment also inspired the interdisciplinary range of contributors to this volume. <br/><br/>In this collection leading academics illuminate Sense8 as a progressive and challenging series that points to vital multifarious contemporary social political aesthetic and philosophical concerns. <i>Sense8: Transcending Television</i> is much more than an academic examination of a series; it is an account and analysis of the way that we all receive communicate and consider ourselves as participants in global communities that are social political and cultural and now both physical and virtual too.