From Gothic Creature to Cyberpunk Body

In Frankenstein, Victor creates life, then abandons his creation. Critics read that failure of responsibility as a Gothic warning about scientific ambition. 🕯️

This reading traces the unease into cyberpunk: artificial minds and altered bodies ask whether identity can persist when consciousness and body separate. 💾

At the body, the question sharpens: when technology alters or separates body and mind, who gets to count as human? That is the lineage’s hinge. 🦾