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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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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15. One notably "Westworld" extension of metaphor is to incorporate prostitution into class allegory: sex workers as workers.
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16. Androids in Westworld serve as sex toys for guests. But they also comment on nature of HBO entertainment
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There was similar meta-ness in the latest Jurassic Park movie.
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Haven't watched it but you hooked me to read your article. Thx!
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