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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal

@ranjodhdhaliwal.com
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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. ☭. Not a professional account.

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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 12h
And this Friday at contralab.online, a closed workshop (funded, in part, by SNSF) on what might count as explanatory knowledge of/after large language models, ...
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 13h
Hosting Gianni Gastaldi and John Terilla at Basel tonight in case anyone wants to join! More at contralab.online
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 29/09/2026
Starting 'The State of Digital Studies' here in Basel today with @berrydm.bsky.social talking about the Vector Paradigm. Register via contralab.online/state-of-dig...
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 24/09/2026
Indian oil and gas heir made professor of sustainability at Newcastle University
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Indian oil and gas heir made professor of sustainability at Newcastle University
Incredulity over role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo
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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We are once again searching for a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in Visual Culture, focus on visual culture and the environment - deadline November 15 - details and application here: applications.caltech.edu/jobs/vcpd
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Save the Date: Alerta! Konferenz zum Faschismus der Gegenwart & Möglichkeiten des Widerstands⁩, Graz, 16.–18. Oktober 2026 Mit Barbara Fried, Clara Mattei, @unddieregel.bsky.social, Društvo/Verein Peršman, yours truly u.v.m.; kuratiert von Annika Stich, @kathrintrattner.bsky.social u.a.
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Forum Stadtpark | Konferenz zum Faschismus der Gegenwart&Möglichkeiten des Widerstands⁩
Forum Stadtpark, an association of artists, cultural workers and scientists since 1959, is a lively center for the production and presentation of art in all its forms.
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 16/09/2026
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!
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 11/09/2026
Having my head blown open by @shannonmattern.bsky.social giving a wildly amazing talk on zoom. Feels like 2020-21 again ngl.
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 03/09/2026
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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james folta @jamesfolta.com · 03/09/2026
The yoda olives meme

after translating the odyssey while standing in front of refrigerator in 2017

2026... going back for more the odyssey
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 20/08/2026
absolute scenes,,,
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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.
wired.com
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.
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 08/07/2026
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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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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...
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Predictions (Volume 1): From Speculative Ethnography to Apocalyptic Testimony
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Shinji R. Yamane @shinjiyamane.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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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meson press @mesonpress.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
📚 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
Printed copies of the book "Reckoning with Everything", edited by Benedikt Merkle and Bernhard Siegert
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Benedikt Merkle @blinkenlight.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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
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[ 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
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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
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[ 8 ] Linguistic Arbitrage: AI and the Financialization of Language Jeffrey West Kirkwood[ 9 ] The Infrastructural Unconscious: Do Computers Dream of
Carbo-Silico Pipelines? 183
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[ 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
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[ 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
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Whirled Bizarre @whirledbizarre.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Support traditional data centers.
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 28/05/2026
This is happening later today at Cambridge in case you are around!!!
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Cambridge Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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/
cdh.cam.ac.uk
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...
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 21/05/2026
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/
cdh.cam.ac.uk
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...
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 05/05/2026
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 !!
Poster for an inaugural lecture for the Professorship in Digital Humanities, Artificial Intelligence, and Media Studies at the University of Basel to be held on the 12th of May in person and also live streaming via contra.center
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 05/05/2026
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 !!
Poster for an inaugural lecture for the Professorship in Digital Humanities, Artificial Intelligence, and Media Studies at the University of Basel to be held on the 12th of May in person and also live streaming via contra.center
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 28/04/2026
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
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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Really looking forward to this great Media Theory/STS event in Basel next week! Convened and curated by the fabulous @ranjodhdhaliwal.com 🔉
Poster Towards a Media Technoscientific Study? STS and Media Theory as Intersecting Lines, Basel, May 7, 2026
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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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
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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 25/04/2026
oh god, literary critic “Client Brooks” is the cherry on top
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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 23/04/2026
gotta keep iterating on the STS program shirt design, probably
a complicated diagram from bruno latour, showing nature, society, and a bunch of circles and lines, over meme text:

BORN TO DELEGATE
DETERMINISM IS A FUCK
Situated Knowledges 1988

I am sociotechnical man
410,757,869,530 DEAD FACTS
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 21/04/2026
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.
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
[overused Marx quote about capital as vampiric dead labour]
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"Unfortunately, the types of people for whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—and whose career trajectories might be most dramatically shifted given freedom from their usual constraints—are infrequently their beneficiaries."
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 09/04/2026
Talking about tokens in "How to do things with words (and images), redux" at Trondheim tom. at 1315, in conjunction with the workshop of the AIsthesis network for research on the aesthetics of AI imagery hosted by the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. www.ntnu.edu/ikm/research...
ntnu.edu
AI Media - Department of Art and Media Studies - NTNU
The research interests of the group include:
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 01/04/2026
If you are in Zurich today, come hear me talk today—on the scientific work of media translation—at the Humanities Colloquium in ETH at 1615. ets.ethz.ch/ets-news-en/...
ets.ethz.ch
Humanities Colloquium Spring Semester 2026
The Humanities Colloquium in the Spring Semester 2026, starts on February 18
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rimidar @rimidar.au · 13/03/2026
Here’s the Top 17 Bankruptcy Filings That Will Get You Through Friday
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 12/03/2026
FYI University of Basel is hiring a professor in English Linguistics (open rank). Application deadline: 16 March, 2026. Please feel free to pass it on! jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
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Universität Basel: Professor in English linguistics (open-rank)
A position as Professor in English linguistics with a focus on English as a lingua franca in the digital age is to be filled at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Basel...
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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Extraordinary new public humanities resource that curates in near real-time over 50,0000 items from sources/channels of humanities-related scholars who create pubic-facing essays, podcasts, videos, blogs, etc.: publicscholarship.org
publicscholarship.org
A search index of expert podcasts, videos and essays.
Explore our curated database of essays, podcasts, and videos authored by the world's leading experts and designed for the public.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%
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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 04/03/2026
added some new privacy/opsec guides for organizers here (as always tell me what I am missing) are.na/rebecca-will...
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 06/03/2026
Just ordered one (1) takeout dinner in the Helevetic Confederation better known as Switzerland:
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404 Media @404media.co · 05/03/2026
SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
404media.co
Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester
A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 05/03/2026
Proposal: Next season, Emily follows this American consular officer to his next posting in the Middle East and gets caught up in the war only to realize that the bourgeois life she has been living always stood atop a nightmare of unequal exchange, war, and violent extraction from Global South.
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 04/03/2026
We've begun. You can still hop on!
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The legal arguments and architecture for what's happening in Iran now, and were deployed in relation to Gaza, really did not come out of nowhere. The pre-emption and targetted assassination arguments might appear spectacular, but they were the workaday archiecture of the war on terror.
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