Silicon Plateau. Volume 3

How are ritual and symbolic systems reactivated through digital environments? Where does knowing settle when authority is distributed across code and platforms? Silicon Plateau Volume 3 poses these questions from Bangalore, India’s IT capital, gathering artists, writers, curators and researchers to trace how ritual and enchantment mutate through computation.

Across essays, artworks, comics and stories, contributors move from colonial-era clairvoyants to microelectronics factory workers, from pet psychics on social media to counterfeit brands as talismans. The book is as much about Bangalore as about the networked world it mirrors and magnifies—showing that magic was never separate from technology, only displaced by modernity’s claims to rationalism. Knowing, these works suggest, does’t settle; it moves through labour, ritual, power and desire.

Designed in a revived typeface once thrown into the river Thames, Silicon Plateau Volume 3 is a meditation on loss, recovery and the afterlives of things.