2. @john_clute has convincingly argued that Science Fiction (and more broadly Fantastika) emerged out of the trauma of the French Revolution
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13. (Slightly tangential, but there's a study to be written about Karl Marx's use of Fantastika imagery: lots of vampires in Marx).
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14. Despite some wobbly bits, "Westworld" is interesting because it builds on traditon of robots as class allegory & extends it.
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From the Czech robota ‘forced labor.’ See also: Janelle Monae.
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George Lewis has written some good stuff about this. Robot=slave is not inevitable. That's why he created Voyager.
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