We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
On Machines and Mosquitoes: Neuroscience, Bodies, and Cyborgs in Amitav Ghosh's "The Calcutta Chromosome."
- Authors
Shinn, Christopher A.
- Abstract
This article discusses the book "The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delerium and Discovery" by Amitav Ghosh. This book states its concerns in our new technology and that to come in the future. It explains its suspicions on the Internets potential to do harm to our world and become our main cause for all warfare in the future. Ghosh's novel does, to a certain degree, give credit to radical subjects in the race for the future.
- Subjects
CALCUTTA Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delerium &; Discovery, The (Book); GHOSH, Amitav, 1956-; SCIENCE; TECHNOLOGY &; civilization; FUTURE in literature
- Publication
MELUS, 2008, Vol 33, Issue 4, p145
- ISSN
0163-755X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/melus/33.4.145