Tag Archives: Karel Capek

paris 1919

When simplistic views of the working class are no longer valid. The machine, in post WWI Europe, had not, after all, turned out to be the instrument of social liberation; and in just about every country in the world the … Continue reading

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utopia: machines triumphant

Utopians were prophets in the sense of predicting the future and also prophets in the sense of castigating the present; a vision of things as they should be was also a reproach to things as they are. One of the … Continue reading

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ROBOT CHRISTMAS: Cyborg Santa

Is this the future?  H.G. Wells reviewing Metropolis, 1927: “But Rotwang, the inventor, is making a Robot, apparently without any license from Capek, the original patentee. It is to look and work like a human being, but it is to … Continue reading

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