Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
@ranjodhdhaliwal.com
Critical Media Theory + Science and Technology Studies + Literature + CS.
Associate Prof. of DH, AI, and Media somewhere.
VP, @litsciarts.org
📚: Computation, Political Economy, Infrastructures, History, Games, Design, SF.
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Not a professional account.
Associate Prof. of DH, AI, and Media somewhere.
VP, @litsciarts.org
📚: Computation, Political Economy, Infrastructures, History, Games, Design, SF.
☭.
Not a professional account.
Pinned
[email protected] and I co-wrote this piece on why you are (probably) doing AI criticism wrong as a humanist and why we, in Critical AI Studies, need to do better methodologically than 'So I asked ChatGPT a question and now I have thoughts...'
Now available on arXiv at doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Now available on arXiv at doi.org/10.48550/arX...
I don't know if the students will enjoy my extremely niche takes, but I already know that this seminar this semester is going to be so sick for me personally. Genuinely excited to get into the weeds!
September 16, 2026 at 9:16 AM
I don't know if the students will enjoy my extremely niche takes, but I already know that this seminar this semester is going to be so sick for me personally. Genuinely excited to get into the weeds!
Having my head blown open by @shannonmattern.bsky.social giving a wildly amazing talk on zoom. Feels like 2020-21 again ngl.
September 11, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Having my head blown open by @shannonmattern.bsky.social giving a wildly amazing talk on zoom. Feels like 2020-21 again ngl.
im sorry but this is going a bit too far. sit down and do the job properly once and for all please.
Emily Wilson is translating The Odyssey (again).
lithub.com/why-is-emily...
lithub.com/why-is-emily...
Why is Emily Wilson retranslating The Odyssey from scratch?
Emily Wilson, chairwoman of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, best-selling translator, and website-crashing Christopher Nolan hater, is going back to retranslate The Odyssey less…
lithub.com
September 3, 2026 at 2:33 PM
im sorry but this is going a bit too far. sit down and do the job properly once and for all please.
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absolute scenes,,,
August 20, 2026 at 8:48 AM
absolute scenes,,,
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My privilege to share some lovely stories from the science community about what Sam Neill's timeless performance as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park meant to them—and why it will continue to inspire kids to chase their own discoveries for years to come.
Sam Neill Inspired a Generation of Scientists
The actor, who died at age 78 on Monday, embodied a passionate approach to research and positive masculinity in his role as paleontologist Alan Grant in the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park.
www.wired.com
July 13, 2026 at 10:41 PM
My privilege to share some lovely stories from the science community about what Sam Neill's timeless performance as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park meant to them—and why it will continue to inspire kids to chase their own discoveries for years to come.
Thrilled that this is out in the world now. Especially delighted to have a small (speculative fictional) piece in this text! @ www.matteringpress.org/books/predic...
July 8, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Thrilled that this is out in the world now. Especially delighted to have a small (speculative fictional) piece in this text! @ www.matteringpress.org/books/predic...
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1/ We are very pleased to announce the publication of Predictions, Volume 1: From Speculative Ethnography to Apocalyptic Testimony, edited
by @melhogan.bsky.social, @stefanlaser.bsky.social and @edwardongwesojr.com www.matteringpress.org/books/predic...
by @melhogan.bsky.social, @stefanlaser.bsky.social and @edwardongwesojr.com www.matteringpress.org/books/predic...
Predictions (Volume 1): From Speculative Ethnography to Apocalyptic Testimony
www.matteringpress.org
June 22, 2026 at 9:18 AM
1/ We are very pleased to announce the publication of Predictions, Volume 1: From Speculative Ethnography to Apocalyptic Testimony, edited
by @melhogan.bsky.social, @stefanlaser.bsky.social and @edwardongwesojr.com www.matteringpress.org/books/predic...
by @melhogan.bsky.social, @stefanlaser.bsky.social and @edwardongwesojr.com www.matteringpress.org/books/predic...
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IEEE Annals of the History of Computing誌に日米半導体協定の論文が掲載されてた．テクノオリエンタリズムについて．
Now published in print: "The Legality of Logistics: On Techno-Orientalism and Geopolitics in Semiconductor Production" in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing as a part of this special issue 'Automation by Design' co-edited by @cperold.bsky.social , Gerardo Con Diaz, and @justcode.bsky.social .
June 4, 2026 at 2:29 PM
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing誌に日米半導体協定の論文が掲載されてた．テクノオリエンタリズムについて．
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📚 Just in: Fresh print copies of “Reckoning with Everything: The Becoming-Environmental of Computing,” edited by Benedikt Merkle @blinkenlight.bsky.social and Bernhard Siegert. The #openaccess edition is available here: doi.org/10.14619/2676. Enyoy the read! 💻
Supported by The NOMIS Foundation
Supported by The NOMIS Foundation
May 24, 2026 at 2:08 PM
📚 Just in: Fresh print copies of “Reckoning with Everything: The Becoming-Environmental of Computing,” edited by Benedikt Merkle @blinkenlight.bsky.social and Bernhard Siegert. The #openaccess edition is available here: doi.org/10.14619/2676. Enyoy the read! 💻
Supported by The NOMIS Foundation
Supported by The NOMIS Foundation
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with contributions from, among others: @adamwickberg.bsky.social @vagt.bsky.social @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @moritzhiller.bsky.social @sebergerj.bsky.social
![Contents
Introduction: The New Real 9
Benedikt Merkle and Bernhard Siegert
R E C K O N I N G W I T H W I N D A N D W E A T H E R
[ 1 ] Times of the Weather: Seasons of the Real Angelika Seppi
33
[ 2 ] Wind: An Environmental Data Stack 53
Jussi Parikka
[ 3 ] Modeling the Earth: Operative Images, Machine Learning,
and Weather Prediction 71
Eva-Maria Gillich
E N V I R O N I N G M E D I A
[ 4 ] Atmospheric Signals, Tubed 91
Christoph Rosol
[ 5 ] Reckoning with the Ocean: The Disconnect Between the
Digital Transition and Marine Sustainability 111
Adam Wickberg and Susanna Lidström
[ 6 ] Contract Time: Or How to do Things with Units Anna Echterhölter
127
T H E S Y M B O L I C A N D T H E R E A L
[ 7 ] Forgetful Functor: Or How to Write the Real Christina Vagt
147
[ 8 ] Linguistic Arbitrage: AI and the Financialization of Language Jeffrey West Kirkwood](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:slvghcu3ve7kxtey5uigrjdq/bafkreifgwe6r2gi5z4kwcqkiia7ryhatr2jbaqoteuk7htedpneyvkg7ui)
![[ 9 ] The Infrastructural Unconscious: Do Computers Dream of
Carbo-Silico Pipelines? 183
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
[ 10 ] Turing Incompleteness: Reckoning with Loss in Digital
Computation 203
Moritz Hiller
L I F E - W O R L D S O F C O M P U T A T I O N
[ 11 ] Dead Time and Lifeworld: The Present Tense of Ubicomp Bernhard Siegert
217
[ 12 ] Reckoning with Intimacy: A Recent History of Intimate
Computing 233
Benedikt Merkle
[ 13 ] Interaction with the Vampire 251
John S. Seberger
C O D A
[ 14 ] What Computers Want 269
Geoffrey C. Bowker
Authors 283](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:slvghcu3ve7kxtey5uigrjdq/bafkreic6u27ugxivvy2iu2pxdwxbolawzbh53xumibvtph3uuochkzs3au)
June 6, 2026 at 2:29 PM
with contributions from, among others: @adamwickberg.bsky.social @vagt.bsky.social @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @moritzhiller.bsky.social @sebergerj.bsky.social
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Support traditional data centers.
June 2, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Support traditional data centers.
This is happening later today at Cambridge in case you are around!!!
Join us on Thursday for our final CDH Open research seminar of term with the brilliant @ranjodhdhaliwal.com 💫
5pm in the ARB
Register: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41390/
5pm in the ARB
Register: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41390/
May 28, 2026 at 11:55 AM
This is happening later today at Cambridge in case you are around!!!
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Join us on Thursday for our final CDH Open research seminar of term with the brilliant @ranjodhdhaliwal.com 💫
5pm in the ARB
Register: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41390/
5pm in the ARB
Register: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41390/
May 26, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Join us on Thursday for our final CDH Open research seminar of term with the brilliant @ranjodhdhaliwal.com 💫
5pm in the ARB
Register: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41390/
5pm in the ARB
Register: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41390/
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right-wingers have their violently stupid ideas, of course, but it’s somehow even more insulting when they want to create discourse on the humanities they are fighting every day to defund. fuck off and go vibe code a racist gambling app you absolute piece of shit
You might think it's racist to melt down about the appearance of a black woman in a movie, but have you considered that progressives do a totally different thing?
May 25, 2026 at 7:45 AM
right-wingers have their violently stupid ideas, of course, but it’s somehow even more insulting when they want to create discourse on the humanities they are fighting every day to defund. fuck off and go vibe code a racist gambling app you absolute piece of shit
Next week, I am talking about seriality, parallelism, and the infrastructural conditions around the ubiquity of graphic cards at the @camdighum.bsky.social Open Research Seminar. 28th of May, 1700, at SG2, Alison Richard Building. Drop by if you are in the area!
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41390/
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41390/
The Parallel Form, or the Logic of the Graphic - CDH
Speaker Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Basel Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal holds the professorship in Digital Humanities, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and M...
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk
May 21, 2026 at 6:47 AM
Next week, I am talking about seriality, parallelism, and the infrastructural conditions around the ubiquity of graphic cards at the @camdighum.bsky.social Open Research Seminar. 28th of May, 1700, at SG2, Alison Richard Building. Drop by if you are in the area!
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41390/
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41390/
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If you are in/around Basel, you should join us for my inaugural lecture on the 12th of May, 2026 at 1815 CEST! Or you can watch the livestream. More details at contra.center !!
May 5, 2026 at 6:14 AM
If you are in/around Basel, you should join us for my inaugural lecture on the 12th of May, 2026 at 1815 CEST! Or you can watch the livestream. More details at contra.center !!
If you are in/around Basel, you should join us for my inaugural lecture on the 12th of May, 2026 at 1815 CEST! Or you can watch the livestream. More details at contra.center !!
May 5, 2026 at 6:14 AM
If you are in/around Basel, you should join us for my inaugural lecture on the 12th of May, 2026 at 1815 CEST! Or you can watch the livestream. More details at contra.center !!
Local friends, you should join us for a symposium I am organizing next week in Basel in association with STS-CH. Featuring a really great lineup!
Program and registration at contralab.online/sts-conference
Program and registration at contralab.online/sts-conference
April 28, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Local friends, you should join us for a symposium I am organizing next week in Basel in association with STS-CH. Featuring a really great lineup!
Program and registration at contralab.online/sts-conference
Program and registration at contralab.online/sts-conference
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Really looking forward to this great Media Theory/STS event in Basel next week! Convened and curated by the fabulous @ranjodhdhaliwal.com 🔉
April 28, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Really looking forward to this great Media Theory/STS event in Basel next week! Convened and curated by the fabulous @ranjodhdhaliwal.com 🔉
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Delighted to soon be traveling to Basel for the below event:
Towards a Media Technoscientific Study?: STS and Media Theory as Intersecting Lines
May 7, 2026
In association with the Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology and Society (STS-CH)
contralab.online/sts-conference
Towards a Media Technoscientific Study?: STS and Media Theory as Intersecting Lines
May 7, 2026
In association with the Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology and Society (STS-CH)
contralab.online/sts-conference
April 28, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Delighted to soon be traveling to Basel for the below event:
Towards a Media Technoscientific Study?: STS and Media Theory as Intersecting Lines
May 7, 2026
In association with the Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology and Society (STS-CH)
contralab.online/sts-conference
Towards a Media Technoscientific Study?: STS and Media Theory as Intersecting Lines
May 7, 2026
In association with the Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology and Society (STS-CH)
contralab.online/sts-conference
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oh god, literary critic “Client Brooks” is the cherry on top
Meet “ASU Atomic,” a subscription platform that claims to offer customized learning modules for fee-paying users. None of the ASU faculty whose course materials were harvested for the module I generated were aware that their image, lectures, lessons, or other teaching materials are being used.
April 25, 2026 at 2:11 AM
oh god, literary critic “Client Brooks” is the cherry on top
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gotta keep iterating on the STS program shirt design, probably
April 23, 2026 at 9:27 PM
gotta keep iterating on the STS program shirt design, probably
In the wake of Lenin, who once declared how Communism is Soviets plus Electricity, I am really excited to be speaking online this weekend (Saturday, the 25th of April) at the Hangzhou Normal University, 杭州师范大学, about how Media might be Infrastructure plus Semiotics.
April 21, 2026 at 8:09 PM
In the wake of Lenin, who once declared how Communism is Soviets plus Electricity, I am really excited to be speaking online this weekend (Saturday, the 25th of April) at the Hangzhou Normal University, 杭州师范大学, about how Media might be Infrastructure plus Semiotics.