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.
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.@zentralwerkstatt.org 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...
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Happy to see this volume on environmental computation out where I contribute a chapter on ocean digitalization and governance, alongside great essays by Jussi Parikka, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com Geoffrey Bowker and others
meson.press/books/reckon...
meson.press/books/reckon...
Reckoning with Everything. The Becoming-Environmental of Computing › meson press
Computation must and has always had to “reckon with everything.” This volume brings together contributions that seek to describe the environmentality of computation based on selected settings.
meson.press
February 10, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Happy to see this volume on environmental computation out where I contribute a chapter on ocean digitalization and governance, alongside great essays by Jussi Parikka, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com Geoffrey Bowker and others
meson.press/books/reckon...
meson.press/books/reckon...
Happening later today at the Whitney Humanities Center in Yale! Come hear me talk about media, infrastructure, and firewalls. events.yale.edu/event/ranjod...
February 9, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Happening later today at the Whitney Humanities Center in Yale! Come hear me talk about media, infrastructure, and firewalls. events.yale.edu/event/ranjod...
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Next week, I will be delivering a 2026 Franke Lecture in the Humanities at Yale titled 'Symbolic Access: On Walls, Bridges, and Roman Media Infrastructures,' in which I will explain why the OG Roman Empire might be our colloquial Roman Empire for media studies, STS, and historical materialism.
February 2, 2026 at 9:44 AM
Next week, I will be delivering a 2026 Franke Lecture in the Humanities at Yale titled 'Symbolic Access: On Walls, Bridges, and Roman Media Infrastructures,' in which I will explain why the OG Roman Empire might be our colloquial Roman Empire for media studies, STS, and historical materialism.
Next week, I will be delivering a 2026 Franke Lecture in the Humanities at Yale titled 'Symbolic Access: On Walls, Bridges, and Roman Media Infrastructures,' in which I will explain why the OG Roman Empire might be our colloquial Roman Empire for media studies, STS, and historical materialism.
February 2, 2026 at 9:44 AM
Next week, I will be delivering a 2026 Franke Lecture in the Humanities at Yale titled 'Symbolic Access: On Walls, Bridges, and Roman Media Infrastructures,' in which I will explain why the OG Roman Empire might be our colloquial Roman Empire for media studies, STS, and historical materialism.
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feels bad to do goofy intellectual self indulgence at the end of the world but ya gotta do it while it lasts
January 31, 2026 at 10:39 PM
feels bad to do goofy intellectual self indulgence at the end of the world but ya gotta do it while it lasts
Anything ever created by Microsoft which needs an internet connection.
What tool/platform are you forced to use (by your employer or client) that you’d rather toss into an open fire?
January 31, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Anything ever created by Microsoft which needs an internet connection.
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Students can't watch movies because they don't watch television.
January 31, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Students can't watch movies because they don't watch television.
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Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban https://aje.news/ljjuww
January 29, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
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The first three articles:
• harmony bench & Kate Elswit on motion data, consent, and embodied archives
• Orla Delaney on feminism, silence, and Ireland’s abortion archive as political infrastructure
• @ranjodhdhaliwal.com on scale — and why small, local AI might matter most
• harmony bench & Kate Elswit on motion data, consent, and embodied archives
• Orla Delaney on feminism, silence, and Ireland’s abortion archive as political infrastructure
• @ranjodhdhaliwal.com on scale — and why small, local AI might matter most
January 29, 2026 at 1:28 PM
The first three articles:
• harmony bench & Kate Elswit on motion data, consent, and embodied archives
• Orla Delaney on feminism, silence, and Ireland’s abortion archive as political infrastructure
• @ranjodhdhaliwal.com on scale — and why small, local AI might matter most
• harmony bench & Kate Elswit on motion data, consent, and embodied archives
• Orla Delaney on feminism, silence, and Ireland’s abortion archive as political infrastructure
• @ranjodhdhaliwal.com on scale — and why small, local AI might matter most
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✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
AI & Archives
AI & Archives
www.cambridge.org
January 29, 2026 at 1:28 PM
✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Just published: "A few notes on the scalar foundations of foundation models," a position paper in which I discuss the need for rejecting large-scale vague AI, and talk about fascination as a technological operation. Available open-access at doi.org/10.1017/cfc.... .
January 22, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.
January 26, 2026 at 7:53 AM
stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.
Just published: "A few notes on the scalar foundations of foundation models," a position paper in which I discuss the need for rejecting large-scale vague AI, and talk about fascination as a technological operation. Available open-access at doi.org/10.1017/cfc.... .
January 22, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Just published: "A few notes on the scalar foundations of foundation models," a position paper in which I discuss the need for rejecting large-scale vague AI, and talk about fascination as a technological operation. Available open-access at doi.org/10.1017/cfc.... .
Headed to Regensburg—the home of one of my favorite academics, Prof. Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld—to deliver a lecture tomorrow on the aesthetic state of cringe and digitality as a part of the 'In the Borderlands' lecture series. Join if you are around for some reason!
January 20, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Headed to Regensburg—the home of one of my favorite academics, Prof. Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld—to deliver a lecture tomorrow on the aesthetic state of cringe and digitality as a part of the 'In the Borderlands' lecture series. Join if you are around for some reason!
facebook still delivers gems sometimes
January 20, 2026 at 7:39 AM
facebook still delivers gems sometimes
Currently the featured article on the IEEE Annals website www.computer.org/csdl/magazin... . Available open access at doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2025.3559418 .
January 16, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Currently the featured article on the IEEE Annals website www.computer.org/csdl/magazin... . Available open access at doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2025.3559418 .
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January 16, 2026 at 2:36 AM
It was a pleasure to work with the good folks at Disjunctions on this short piece!
next in this issue is @ranjodhdhaliwal.com, on our role as generative AI's involuntary beta testers.
Always Already Betas
The user subject and the GPT grindset
disjunctionsmag.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:09 PM
It was a pleasure to work with the good folks at Disjunctions on this short piece!
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next in this issue is @ranjodhdhaliwal.com, on our role as generative AI's involuntary beta testers.
Always Already Betas
The user subject and the GPT grindset
disjunctionsmag.com
January 11, 2026 at 2:58 PM
next in this issue is @ranjodhdhaliwal.com, on our role as generative AI's involuntary beta testers.
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“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller)
more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living”
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living”
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
Criticism Is Literature. Why Is It Vanishing?, by Adam Morgan
What do the best book reviews do? What is the current state of the critical ecosystem? Chicago Review of Books founder Adam Morgan takes stock of book reviewing in the US.
worldliteraturetoday.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller)
more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living”
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living”
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
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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 .
December 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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 .
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 .
December 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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 .
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Our special issue is out! "Automation by Design: Politics, Culture & Landscape in an Age of Machines That Learn"! Eds. Colette Perold, me, Gerardo Con Diaz. Authors: David Dunning, Christos Karampatsos, Polyxeni Malisova, Eliza Pertigkiozoglou, Jason Ludwig, Megan Wiessner, & Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
December 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Our special issue is out! "Automation by Design: Politics, Culture & Landscape in an Age of Machines That Learn"! Eds. Colette Perold, me, Gerardo Con Diaz. Authors: David Dunning, Christos Karampatsos, Polyxeni Malisova, Eliza Pertigkiozoglou, Jason Ludwig, Megan Wiessner, & Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
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"literary-critical inferences cannot be identical, but cannot be an interpretive free-for-all or just statistically approximated hearsay. AI cannot suffer the downstream consequences of faked comprehension+wrongful inferences in its body."
Nan Z Da
newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
Nan Z Da
newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
Nan Z. Da, Literary Criticism in the Age of AI, NLR 155, September–October 2025
Critical analyses of AI usually adopt a stance of defensive humanism. Instead, Nan Da interrogates its mode of reasoning. How do LLMs make the step from data to inference—and what does it mean when th...
newleftreview.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"literary-critical inferences cannot be identical, but cannot be an interpretive free-for-all or just statistically approximated hearsay. AI cannot suffer the downstream consequences of faked comprehension+wrongful inferences in its body."
Nan Z Da
newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...
Nan Z Da
newleftreview.org/issues/ii155...