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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016
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      10. Frankenstein great allegory for what happens when "novum" (a new thing) enters a world not ready for it. Revolution & counter-revolution

      4 replies 22 retweets 67 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016
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      11. Frankenstein is also the ur-narrative of robots & Artificial Intelligence.

      5 replies 7 retweets 52 likes
    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.

      3 replies 7 retweets 43 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016
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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).

      4 replies 2 retweets 36 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016
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      14. Despite some wobbly bits, "Westworld" is interesting because it builds on traditon of robots as class allegory & extends it.

      6 replies 13 retweets 45 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016
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      15. One notably "Westworld" extension of metaphor is to incorporate prostitution into class allegory: sex workers as workers.

      3 replies 8 retweets 48 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016
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      16. Androids in Westworld serve as sex toys for guests. But they also comment on nature of HBO entertainment

      3 replies 4 retweets 42 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016
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      17. HBO quality TV tends to go in for titillating sexual violence frequently showing prostitutes (Game of Thrones). Westworld is response.

      4 replies 8 retweets 32 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016
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      18. Scenes in Westworld where creators look down on 3-D overview of theme park calls to mind opening survey of Westeros in GoT.

      2 replies 6 retweets 29 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016
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      19. Westworld, about androids becoming self-ware, is an HBO show becoming self-aware of what HBO style entertainment is and does.

      8 replies 25 retweets 77 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016

      20. Anyways, I explore all this in greater detail here:https://newrepublic.com/article/138016/westworlds-trigger-warnings …

      8:58 AM - 28 Oct 2016
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Oct 2016
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          21. Free title for anyone who wants to write more about this: Westworld vs. Westeros.

          3 replies 4 retweets 28 likes
        3. Renate R‏ @renrad2 28 Oct 2016
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          ooo, yes pls!

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        1. Drewseph‏ @_drewseph 28 Oct 2016
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          @jillmargulies read this thread from the top

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        1. WG‏ @aresquare 28 Oct 2016
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          The Twilight Zone has multiple android tales. Most pertinent to your fine Westworld piece: The Lonely (59) & The Lateness of the Hour (60).

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        1. *h₂nérrrrd‏ @earthtopus 28 Oct 2016
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          Karel wrote the play RUR, but his brother Josef (according to him) coined the word "robot" https://web.archive.org/web/20120204135259/http://capek.misto.cz/english/robot.html …

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