God in the Machine: The Ganesh Yourself Experiment (Library Binding) (ISBN-13: 9781836955276)

Vendor: Emmanuel Grimaud
Product type: Books
Format: Library Binding
$135.00
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God in the Machine: The Ganesh Yourself Experiment

$135.00

God in the Machine: The Ganesh Yourself Experiment

$135.00
Format: Library Binding
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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.



Author: Emmanuel Grimaud
ISBN-10: 1836955278
ISBN-13: 9781836955276
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Language: English
Published: 05/15/2026
Pages: 232
Format: Library Binding
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
By Emmanuel Grimaud
By Emmanuel Grimaud
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Emmanuel Grimaud is an anthropologist, film maker and research director at the CNRS (LESC, Paris Nanterre). He is the author of Bollywood Film Studio (2004, CNRS Editions), Gandhi's Lookalike (2007, CNRS editions), Gods and Robots (2008, L'Archange Minotaure), The Day Robots Will Eat Apples (2011, PETRA), The Strange Encyclopaedia of Dr K (2014), God.0 (PUF, 2021), and Metavertigo (2024, La Decouverte). His directed films include Ganesh Yourself (2016), Black Hole: Why I Have Never Been a Rose (2019) and Stoned (2024). He was curator of the exhibition 'Persona, étrangement humain' (2016) and is the Co-Editor in Chief of the French anthropological journal Terrain.

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