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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016

      1. A few very brief thoughts on Westworld, the French Revolution, class warfare & prostitutions.

      12 replies 53 retweets 145 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016
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      2. @john_clute has convincingly argued that Science Fiction (and more broadly Fantastika) emerged out of the trauma of the French Revolution

      3 replies 14 retweets 50 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016
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      3. Fantastic literature is as old as storytelling but nature of it radically changed after French Revolution.

      1 reply 6 retweets 39 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016
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      4. Older literature imaged the fantastic as taking place somewhere else (Gulliver's Island), in the past, as a miraculous intervention.

      5 replies 5 retweets 40 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016
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      5. But "the fantastic" was never, prior to French Revolution, seen as changing the nature of the world. Miracles were simply exceptions.

      3 replies 8 retweets 44 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016
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      6. The French Revolution was experienced as a rupture in history, & introduced the possibility of transformative change, not just miracles.

      5 replies 14 retweets 50 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016
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      7. The French Revolution was a "novum" something new, unprecedented & transformative. Not unlike the Frankenstein monster.

      5 replies 11 retweets 40 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016
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      8. It's hardly an accident that Frankenstein, the primordial science fiction novel, was written by someone belonging to radical circle.

      3 replies 11 retweets 60 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016
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      9. Mary Shelley's circle (notably her mom!) argued that previously oppressed groups ("the people," women) were ready to enter world stage.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016

      10. Frankenstein great allegory for what happens when "novum" (a new thing) enters a world not ready for it. Revolution & counter-revolution

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        2. bear_theory‏ @bear_theory 28 Oct 2016
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          wait... is it really that The World isn't ready for the Monster, or just that Frankenstein didn't prepare the Monster well?

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        3. Sean Blevins‏ @SeanLBlevins 28 Oct 2016
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          Victor didn't prepare the world for his creation; it rejected him solely on the basis of his appearance: he was ugly.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016
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          11. Frankenstein is also the ur-narrative of robots & Artificial Intelligence.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016
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          12. What is a robot? A robot is an explicitly worker (explicitly in Karel Čapek play that gives us the word). A subaltern. A slave.

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        1. Industry Rule 4080‏ @IndRule4080 28 Oct 2016
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          interesting for sure, although it may also be the only way Western European culture can imagine itself somehow oppressed.

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        1. Miss you Rufus‏ @mattdfreund 28 Oct 2016
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          I always understood Frankenstein to be commentary on Rousseau. How much of a blank slate is a person?

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