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Abstract
Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome (1995) is a novel about the informational economy. The novel proposes a new kind of subjectivity that is, in Katherine Hayles’s terms, a cross between the ‘materiality of informatics and the immateriality of information’ (193). It could also be read as a cyberpunk novel with its themes of information, networks, codes, bodies and posthuman identities.
Recommended Citation
Nayar, Pramod K., The informational economy and its body in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome, Kunapipi, 31(2), 2009.
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