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God in the Machine: The Ganesh Yourself Experiment

God in the Machine: The Ganesh Yourself Experiment

Grimaud, Emmanuel

Hardcover

Series: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment, Book 12

Technology & EngineeringAnthropologyHinduism

ISBN10: 1836955278
ISBN13: 9781836955276
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: May 15 2026
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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