God in the Machine : The Ganesh Yourself Experiment
by
Saana Hansen
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Ethnography, Theory, Experiment
ISBN-10
1836955278
ISBN-13
9781836955276
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Imprint
Berghahn Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 15th, 2026
Print length
232 Pages
Product Classification:
Migration, immigration and emigrationMigration, immigration & emigrationSociology: family & relationshipsSociology: family, kinship and relationshipsSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnographySocial and cultural anthropologyEconomic systems & structuresEconomic systems and structures
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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. God in the Machine explores the Ganesh Yourself experiment, a fascinating exercise in anthropology that leads to a radical deconstruction of religion, politics, and technology.
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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