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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 · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
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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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 · 20/08/2026
absolute scenes,,,
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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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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 25/05/2026
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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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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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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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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 05/03/2026
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 04/03/2026
This is happening today! Register @ tinyurl.com/DigitalTheory
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 21/02/2026
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 16/02/2026
the biggest brains possible
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 14/02/2026
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 11/02/2026
In this (somewhat derivative, admittedly) tribute to Fred, I talk about how 'pipelines' emerged as a computational entity (in data, instruction, and graphic pipelines), and what that tells us about assembly lines, supply chains, and the psychoanalytic entanglements of our infrastructures.
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 11/02/2026
Just Published: 'The Infrastructural Unconscious: Do Computers Dream of Carbo-Silico Pipelines?' in "Reckoning with Everything: The Becoming-Environmental of Computing" edited by Bernhard Siegert and Benedikt Merkle, and published by @mesonpress.bsky.social .
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 02/02/2026
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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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 22/01/2026
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.... .
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 20/01/2026
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!
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 20/01/2026
facebook still delivers gems sometimes
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 16/01/2026
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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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 15/01/2026
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 22/12/2025
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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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 18/11/2025
The whole dossier is freely accessible at quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/image... and via quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/infoc... .
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 18/11/2025
...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... ).
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 18/11/2025
The issue also features our commentary on the methodological state of infrastructure and image studies (at quod.lib.umich.edu/.../11_65.1i... ), and...
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 18/11/2025
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.
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 18/11/2025
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?
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 13/11/2025
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....
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 10/10/2025
Catch us at @shothisttech.bsky.social #SHOT2025 at @c2dh.uni.lu today!
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 12/09/2025
youtube algorithms got those nerd dollars on lock.
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 04/09/2025
@4sweb.bsky.social friends, we are starting in ~10 mins!! Come see my midnight zoom face. #4S2025
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 15/07/2025
Quite like this design ngl,,,
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 09/07/2025
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...
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 09/07/2025
Starting in a few minutes!
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 08/07/2025
who up training their mental models???
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 08/07/2025
idk what is happening on my youtube but i dig,,,
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 22/06/2025
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)
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 16/06/2025
Abstract:
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 16/06/2025
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)
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 16/06/2025
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... (1/3)
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 25/05/2025
this is huge ngl
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 23/05/2025
and this is what he is up to now...
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 12/05/2025
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)
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 07/05/2025
He was aura-farming before it was cool,,,
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 06/05/2025
In Naples, and also online, tomorrow:
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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · 04/05/2025
happy sunday
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