Transposing Information Theory on the Calcutta Chromosome: A Critique of Ghosh's Transhuman Futurological Vision  

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Vengadasalam, Sarbani Sen

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Arts and Sciences vol. 06 no. 02 (2013), page 249-260.
Topik: The calcutta chromosome; Amitav ghosh; Futurology; Transhuman; Information theory
Fulltext: 06_02_20_Vengadasalam.pdf (330.0KB)

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Scholars have viewed Amitav Ghosh’s novel, The Calcutta Chromosome, as a post-colonial, post-modernist or subaltern tale. The paper will highlight how the novel, even if it has those elements, is really a futurological story pointing at a post-human, post-global, post-cyber world.By transposing information theory on the novel, it will be found that meaning here resides in the missing byte, and the secret of the future in the gene complex. The novel will be studied as being atypical of the futurological genre because of the way it interweaves cybernetics, genetics and information theories to create a vision of the future and present a new technique of storytelling. The paper will conclude that the novel, by projecting that humans can be downloaded into the machine, is positing that being transhuman will be the future human condition.

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