The informational economy and its body in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome

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.