Frankenstein
Evolving into Sentience: Frankenstein, Ghost in the Shell, and The Man of the Crowd
“Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.” -Jean La Bruyere, quoted by Edgar Allen Poe in “The Man of the Crowd.” “Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side.” -Wi...
Westworld Ends Our Suffering, Delivers a Message
Westworld’s worst-kept secret finally exposed, but having theories confirmed about where the Man in Black and William intersect didn’t pull away focus from the robot revolt we’ve bee...
The Automaton Sequence: 3.0: ‘You are my creator, but I am your master’; Robot Anxiety
And so here we are, the dreaded Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus week. For the purpose of this article, I am referring to Mary Shelley’s opus, and to a lesser extent Kenneth Branagh’s Mary Shell...