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.
Reposted by Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
This is the case in ways already recognized (see e.g., @laraputnam.bsky.social's www.jstor.org/stable/43955... and @ianmilligan1.bsky.social's uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/items/a27aaa...), and ways yet to be felt.
The technology, combined with full-text search, opens and closes many worlds.
The technology, combined with full-text search, opens and closes many worlds.
The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast on JSTOR
LARA PUTNAM, The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast, The American Historical Review, Vol. 121, No. 2 (APRIL 2016), pp. 377-402
www.jstor.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This is the case in ways already recognized (see e.g., @laraputnam.bsky.social's www.jstor.org/stable/43955... and @ianmilligan1.bsky.social's uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/items/a27aaa...), and ways yet to be felt.
The technology, combined with full-text search, opens and closes many worlds.
The technology, combined with full-text search, opens and closes many worlds.
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
The whole dossier is freely accessible at quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/image... and via quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/infoc... .
...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
...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... ).
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 issue also features our commentary on the methodological state of infrastructure and image studies (at quod.lib.umich.edu/.../11_65.1i... ), and...
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
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.
Can visual analysis and infrastructural analysis coexist? Is it possible to analyze an image so as to reconstruct the infrastructural forces that produced or surround it? And to what extent do images contribute to infrastructures by supporting/demonstrating vast/abstract systems?
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Can visual analysis and infrastructural analysis coexist? Is it possible to analyze an image so as to reconstruct the infrastructural forces that produced or surround it? And to what extent do images contribute to infrastructures by supporting/demonstrating vast/abstract systems?
Reposted by Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
I should say that this is the result of an invitation by @ritaraley.bsky.social and Fabian Offert, but also a reaction to this paper by Fabian and @ranjodhdhaliwal.com that I found very "generative." arxiv.org/abs/2411.18833
The Method of Critical AI Studies, A Propaedeutic
We outline some common methodological issues in the field of critical AI studies, including a tendency to overestimate the explanatory power of individual samples (the benchmark casuistry), a dependen...
arxiv.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I should say that this is the result of an invitation by @ritaraley.bsky.social and Fabian Offert, but also a reaction to this paper by Fabian and @ranjodhdhaliwal.com that I found very "generative." arxiv.org/abs/2411.18833