Anupama Poudel

A Posthumanist Reconfiguration of Moral Agency: Ecologically Distributed Vitality and the Intra-Active Emergence of the More-Than-Human in Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl

This paper argues that Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl destabilizes the anthropocentric foundations of moral agency by staging their inadequacy against a bioengineered subject they were structurally designed to exclude. Through a sustained textual analysis of Emiko—a "New Person" engineered for servile compliance, legally...