Marta P.
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Writing columns about tech, culture, and reverie @ https://dontlognow.substack.com/
I explore what Victor Frankenstein playing God by piecing together body parts and creating his monster can teach us about our current demise-favored tech culture in a little essay: dontlognow.substack.com/p/what-frank...
What Frankenstein can tell us about the anxiety of progress
Romantic warnings before it was cool
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November 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I explore what Victor Frankenstein playing God by piecing together body parts and creating his monster can teach us about our current demise-favored tech culture in a little essay: dontlognow.substack.com/p/what-frank...
In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley takes that anxiety and nuances it further.
More than a fear of progress, the novel explores the fear of a progress that is itself unregulated. Creation without ethical planning. Losing control of technological advancements. Promethean caution at its finest.
More than a fear of progress, the novel explores the fear of a progress that is itself unregulated. Creation without ethical planning. Losing control of technological advancements. Promethean caution at its finest.
November 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley takes that anxiety and nuances it further.
More than a fear of progress, the novel explores the fear of a progress that is itself unregulated. Creation without ethical planning. Losing control of technological advancements. Promethean caution at its finest.
More than a fear of progress, the novel explores the fear of a progress that is itself unregulated. Creation without ethical planning. Losing control of technological advancements. Promethean caution at its finest.
It recalls the paranoia of modern times, where peaks of technological advancements make us all hold onto our jobs, progress spearheading more progress in the face of those whose livelihood depends on the status quo.
November 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
It recalls the paranoia of modern times, where peaks of technological advancements make us all hold onto our jobs, progress spearheading more progress in the face of those whose livelihood depends on the status quo.
Afraid of change, artists took that fretfulness by sublimating nature, shining an obsessive light onto emotion’s superiority to reason, and holding tight to their landscapes and the concept of the ungovernability of nature.
November 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Afraid of change, artists took that fretfulness by sublimating nature, shining an obsessive light onto emotion’s superiority to reason, and holding tight to their landscapes and the concept of the ungovernability of nature.
Frankenstein was born in the throes of Romanticism and at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. It was characterized by a deep anxiety: if you think about Turner’s paintings, with little men standing on cliffs overwhelmed by grand natural landscapes, that’s pretty much what Romanticism was.
November 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Frankenstein was born in the throes of Romanticism and at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. It was characterized by a deep anxiety: if you think about Turner’s paintings, with little men standing on cliffs overwhelmed by grand natural landscapes, that’s pretty much what Romanticism was.