The enduring significance of Frankenstein does not lie in its depiction of life assembled from death, but in the institutional relocation of that act. Shelley situates creation not within a sanctuary but within a workshop—a space governed by instruments, procedures, calibration, and repeatability rather than sacrament or revelation. What is radical is not animation itself but jurisdiction: the claim that life, once the exclusive province of divine mediation, … Continue reading Frankenstein’s Workshop: Time, Custody, and the Birth of Clockwork