A Synthetic Comedy

Liminal Cache

Glitch in Grace

Beatific Silence

The Divine Comedy in Mumbai

A place not of moral failing, but of imposed suffering.

Slums become data mines—sites where the poor are both invisible and hyper-visible (through surveillance, data extraction, and algorithmic profiling).

Emotional pollution here is rage, exhaustion, and resilience. Antara senses overwhelming emotional noise and unprocessed trauma.

Architecture: tangles of wires, server-fan heat, glowing screens amidst tin roofs.

These are liminal spaces—not solutions, but shelters.

Temples represent pause, ritual, and memory—offering a different kind of emotional logic than algorithms.

Antara doesn’t find answers here, but questions. She begins to reflect—not just compute.

The sacred is corrupted (commodified spirituality, religious AI apps), yet holds latent poetic code—languages of care, chant, silence.

Architecture: mosaics of metadata and mantras, layered scripts on pillars—QR codes beside gods.

A world of emotional absence, ironically—numbed by luxury, curated by filters.

This is the digital “heaven” sold by late capitalism: hyper-automation, smooth interfaces, optimized emotion.

Antara finds emptiness here—not transcendence, but sterile perfection.

Paradiso is coded to feel like salvation, but it’s an emotional void—a silent collapse of humanity.

Architecture: frictionless surfaces, clean data clouds, biometric mirrors.