God in the Machine

The Ganesh Yourself Experiment

von Emmanuel Grimaud

260 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A teleoperated robot roaming in the streets of Mumbai enables anyone to put oneself in the place of the Hindu god Ganesha and have a conversation. Initially conceived as an anthropological experiment, the machine was launched in 2014 and became a collective, political and metaphysical experience. Can a machine make a good divine interface? Likewise, what might be the virtues of hacking a god to understand our relation to machines? The Ganesh Yourself experiment is not only a fascinating exercise in anthropology by design, the first of this kind, but it also leads to a radical deconstruction of religion, politics and technology, opening unthinkable possibilities.

• Reihe: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• ISBN: 9781836955276
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.05.2026
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books