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

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/

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 !!

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

Really looking forward to this great Media Theory/STS event in Basel next week! Convened and curated by the fabulous @ranjodhdhaliwal.com 🔉

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

oh god, literary critic “Client Brooks” is the cherry on top

gotta keep iterating on the STS program shirt design, probably

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.

[overused Marx quote about capital as vampiric dead labour]

"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."

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...

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/...

Here’s the Top 17 Bankruptcy Filings That Will Get You Through Friday

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...

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

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%

added some new privacy/opsec guides for organizers here (as always tell me what I am missing) are.na/rebecca-will...

Just ordered one (1) takeout dinner in the Helevetic Confederation better known as Switzerland:

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.

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.

We've begun. You can still hop on!

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.

This is happening today! Register @ tinyurl.com/DigitalTheory

It's interesting seeing all the take-havers having viral takes about AI that are essentially verbatim recitations of deeply researched analyses offered by AI scholars ten years ago, when they those caveats were ignored by press + the general public because the threat wasn't yet so intensely palpable

The Media, Science and Technology (MST) SIG is in Spotlight, thanks to an insightful piece by Gary Kafer and Patrick Brian Smith, explaining the relationship between the three constitutive terms, each of which as we all know can mean a lot of different things: quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/i...

the biggest brains possible

New chapter on ocean digitalization and governance out in volume edited by Bernhard Siegert, alongside great essays by Jussi Parikka, Geoffrey Bowker, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social and others meson.press/books/reckon...

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 .

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 .

Happy to see this volume on environmental computation out where I contribute a chapter on ocean digitalization and governance, alongside great essays by Jussi Parikka, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com Geoffrey Bowker and others meson.press/books/reckon...

Happening later today at the Whitney Humanities Center in Yale! Come hear me talk about media, infrastructure, and firewalls. events.yale.edu/event/ranjod...

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.

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.

feels bad to do goofy intellectual self indulgence at the end of the world but ya gotta do it while it lasts

Anything ever created by Microsoft which needs an internet connection.

Students can't watch movies because they don't watch television.

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

The first three articles: • harmony bench & Kate Elswit on motion data, consent, and embodied archives • Orla Delaney on feminism, silence, and Ireland’s abortion archive as political infrastructure • @ranjodhdhaliwal.com on scale — and why small, local AI might matter most

✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...