Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
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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.
The whole dossier is freely accessible at quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/image... and via quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/infoc... .
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
...my short piece on racial entanglements of hardware capture (and how to read Fred Jameson as an infrastructure studies scholar) in contemporary computational photography via an analysis of Google's Real Tone technology (at quod.lib.umich.edu/.../15_65.1i... ).
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The issue also features our commentary on the methodological state of infrastructure and image studies (at quod.lib.umich.edu/.../11_65.1i... ), and...
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The contributions to this dossier—from Diana Ruiz, Derek Woods, @jmalazita.bsky.social , @kylestine.bsky.social , Mal Ahern, and myself—represent a variety of responses to these questions, drawing on border studies, environmental media, game studies, history of computing, labor, and film history.
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Just Published: For the latest @jcmsjournal.bsky.social issue, Mal Ahern and I co-edited an In Focus dossier on 'Images and (Infra)structures,' which originally emerged from a lively @scmstudies.bsky.social roundtable in 2022. What, we ask, do images and infrastructure have to say to each other?
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
With John Behrens and Alexi Orchard, I co-wrote, for the latest issue of the IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, this short reflection on teaching Generative AI through a multidisciplinary framework while technological systems change continuously. doi.org/10.1109/MTS....
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
October 10, 2025 at 7:11 AM
youtube algorithms got those nerd dollars on lock.
September 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
@4sweb.bsky.social friends, we are starting in ~10 mins!! Come see my midnight zoom face. #4S2025
September 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Quite like this design ngl,,,
July 15, 2025 at 5:15 AM
In today's issue of @faznet.bsky.social, you shall find a source code criticism of the DeepSeek code performed by Markus Krajewski and myself. We try to unpack what can and cannot be known about AI from its open source repositories. Now available at your local newstand!
www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...
July 9, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Starting in a few minutes!
July 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
who up training their mental models???
July 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
idk what is happening on my youtube but i dig,,,
July 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
On the 9th of July, at the National Communication Museum in Hawthorn, as a part of the @aussts.bsky.social 2025 conference, I will be talking about infrastructures of noise at the keynote panel along with Glen Berman, Dang Nguyen, Fabian Offert, and Kate Mannell. (3/4)
June 22, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Abstract:
June 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
This piece was initially written as a (deceptively) 'short,' five-page memo (peep the footnotes lol) for this ‘What is Critical Now?: Media Studies between Crisis and Critique’ workshop at the @umichdigital.bsky.social , University of Michigan in April 2025. (2/3)
June 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Just Published: 'Concretion.' published in the Basel Media Culture and Cultural Techniques Working Papers, edited by Markus Krajewski, Ute Holl, and Magnus Rust.
eterna.unibas.ch/bmcct/articl...

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June 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
this is huge ngl
May 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
and this is what he is up to now...
May 23, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Applications just opened for a postdoctoral position in Digital Media Studies with Markus Krajewski and myself at the Department of Media Studies and the Digital Humanities Laboratory at the University of Basel. (1/3)
May 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
He was aura-farming before it was cool,,,
May 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
In Naples, and also online, tomorrow:
May 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
happy sunday
May 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
This is me upon landing in Napoli,,,

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May 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM