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God in the Machine: The Ganesh Yourself Experiment

Hansen, Saana

 
9781836955276: God in the Machine: The Ganesh Yourself Experiment

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Saana Hansen is Postdoctoral Researcher in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki. She is affiliated with the Kone Foundation-funded project Postcolonial Apology and Legacies of Problematic Pasts (2021-2026) and the Research Council of Finland-funded project The Politics of Repair (2025-2029).

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