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.

• ForewordChapter 1. “Ganesh Yourself”: The Incarnation Game.Chapter 2. Divine (Im)PostureChapter 3. KaliyugaChapter 4. Divine (In)JusticeChapter 5. The TestChapter 6. Machine of MisfortuneChapter 7. The matrixChapter 8. Ganesh cacophonyChapter 9. The ImmersionChapter 10. A little theory of thresholds in general, and of the zero-point in particularChapter 11. The Sex Appeal of the Zero-Point: Virtues and Vertigo of Experimentation

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.

• ForewordChapter 1. “Ganesh Yourself”: The Incarnation Game.Chapter 2. Divine (Im)PostureChapter 3. KaliyugaChapter 4. Divine (In)JusticeChapter 5. The TestChapter 6. Machine of MisfortuneChapter 7. The matrixChapter 8. Ganesh cacophonyChapter 9. The ImmersionChapter 10. A little theory of thresholds in general, and of the zero-point in particularChapter 11. The Sex Appeal of the Zero-Point: Virtues and Vertigo of Experimentation

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.

• ForewordChapter 1. “Ganesh Yourself”: The Incarnation Game.Chapter 2. Divine (Im)PostureChapter 3. KaliyugaChapter 4. Divine (In)JusticeChapter 5. The TestChapter 6. Machine of MisfortuneChapter 7. The matrixChapter 8. Ganesh cacophonyChapter 9. The ImmersionChapter 10. A little theory of thresholds in general, and of the zero-point in particularChapter 11. The Sex Appeal of the Zero-Point: Virtues and Vertigo of Experimentation