Digging up the dead

摘要

Within this new world of human, economic, and technological relationships, many people are struggling for a metaphor that will give us a sense of where we are right now. It seems to me that we have that metaphor and that it has been before us for a long time, frightening audiences decade after decade for almost 200 years, on the page and the silver screen. Frankenstein injected into the game the idea of artificially creating life. Scientifically manipulating the forces that underlie existence; subverting sexual coupling as the sole manner of passing on the divine spark.