The Frankenstein Culture became the Xanadu Society

When Mary Shelley penned her quid essential monster two hundred years ago, the Villa Diodati on the shore of Lake Geneva was transformed from an idyllic estate into a shine of human hubris run amok. The architect of weird science, Victor Frankenstein, sought to replace the creator and bring to life a wretch of demented design. While the creature originates as a blank slate and learns from his fabricator, the internal conflict in both rests upon an uneasy struggle dealing with the isolation of being part of a functioning social network.
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