1. A few very brief thoughts on Westworld, the French Revolution, class warfare & prostitutions.
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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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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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11. Frankenstein is also the ur-narrative of robots & Artificial Intelligence.
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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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interesting for sure, although it may also be the only way Western European culture can imagine itself somehow oppressed.
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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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