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God in the Machine : The Ganesh Yourself Experiment

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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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781836955276
  • ISBN-10: 1836955278
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • Publish Date: May 2026
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.63 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.14 pounds
  • Page Count: 232

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