Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal

.@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...

Alright, it looks like we are gonna have to do some tHeOrY very soon.

DH’s true field killer: not The Computational Case against Computational Literary Studies (2019), but PHP2Shell (2026)

every single academic thing these days is basically just 'peepee poopoo in the age of AI' and i am sick and tired of it all.

Excellent postdoc position in AI, NLP & Philosophy of Lang for 18th c corpus based research. Computational person with interests in Phil/Humanities, or enlightenment schol with extraordinary computational chops. 4 years in Basel with a great salary (82k USD).

Today at Mesh Festival in Basel!

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Today at 4S!

thrilled that canada can now bury that alice munro story into the forgotten and unspeakable past, like characters in an alice munro story

This might be the most I have ever been excited about a panel I've co-organized. It's definitely going to be a riot. You are welcome to throw hands if you want; we'd be ready!

Hello 4S folks! If you're in Toronto, join @ranjodhdhaliwal.com & me for the panel CYBERNETICS DID NOT TAKE PLACE Friday, 1:30 - 3:20pm 4th floor Kensington @davidcecchetto.bsky.social, @blueskychris.bsky.social, @beccauliasz.bsky.social Sam Pizelo and Geof Bowker!

In meiner Abteilung werden bald 2 PostDoc-Stellen frei, eine im Projekt INFRADEM zu Macht, Demokratie + digitalen Infrastrukturen, die andere im Feld Critical Data/ Platform Studies/ Ethics and Digital Cultural Studies. Deadline: 24.10.; Details + English version below – freue mich über Bewerbungen!

Hosting Gianni Gastaldi and John Terilla at Basel tonight in case anyone wants to join! More at contralab.online

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...

Indian oil and gas heir made professor of sustainability at Newcastle University

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

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.

im sorry but this is going a bit too far. sit down and do the job properly once and for all please.

absolute scenes,,,

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...

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...

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．

📚 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

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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/

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

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 !!