ABSTRACT
Created by Victor Frankenstein, the Monster is his mind child made apart from woman and abandoned by his maker. Parentless, the Monster is an orphan condemned to wander the world alone and as a refugee in search of an identity, a history and a community. He is a harbinger of the ways in which our lives on the world-wide-web are prophetic amplifications of these conditions. This question explores how we drift in the digital world in a flood of information, which, having little if any context, submerges us in an everywhere that is a nowhere. In addition, this question examines the swelling population of refugees displaced by our political and economic wars as well as by the ravages of climate crises. In the guise of orphans and refugees, we encounter the wandering tribes of the Monster’s descendants, his homeless shadow children haunting the margins of our contemporary world.
