
God in the Machine
The Ganesh Yourself Experiment
Emmanuel Grimaud(Author)
Ethnography, Theory, Experiment (Publisher)
Published on 15. May 2026
Book
Hardback
260 pages
978-1-83695-527-6 (ISBN)
Description
Enlarges the scope of discussion, about creativity in science and art, about the philosophy of experience in general, but also about the way humanities can take up and take on the experimental aspect of their practice.
The book demonstrates clearly how it is no longer just a matter of the humanities patiently inventorying the possibilities that people have of living differently than they do and repopulating the world with all sorts of populations, minorities, divergent interests, categories of beings, visible or invisible.
Takes the reader step by step through the different phases of the experience, showing how in a country where speculating about the nature of God is a widespread pastime, people were eager to play the game, debating for hours on end, via the robot, unresolved theological questions or problems that concerned them in their daily lives (pollution, corruption, and so on).
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Language
English
Publishing group
Berghahn Books
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
532 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83695-527-6 (9781836955276)
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05/2026
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Person
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.