Leith Docks is to the modern visitor a wasteland, a relic of the industrial past which enriched Edinburgh. The Imperial Dock Grain Warehouse once sat amidst this landscape, its demolition completed in 2022 – the terminus of an 89-year history of logistics operation and escalating waves of automation and mechanisation in the pursuit of efficiency and profit.

A speculative stay of execution paired with an act of future-casting allows the consideration of the world of the Final Industrial Revolution™ sparked by the creation of truly sentient artificial intelligence and the production of a new form for the grotesque body of Capital. Humanity’s only responsibility is to ensure the machine remains operational – functioning within spaces intended not for human inhabitation but for the logical organisation and efficient operation of mechanical productive forces. Control is exerted over human actors through psychological and phenomenological effects of architecture, a future beyond the Anthropocene played out in the House of the Machine God.