Rita Raley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1065322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rita Raley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rita |
| FAMILY NAME | Raley |
| SIGNATURE | RALEY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
AI Literacy and the Changing Digital Political Landscape
Delores Phillips and Cultural Studies Association s New Media and Digital Cultures Working Group Co-Host Reed Van Schenck discuss AI literacy, digital politics, and the 2024 US presidential election with authors Elizabeth Losh (William and Mary) and Rita Raley (UC Santa Barbara). This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Stefania Milan
Borges and AI
How to Do Things with Deep Learning Code
The premise of this article is that a basic understanding of the composition and functioning of large language models is critically urgent. To that end, we extract a representational map of OpenAI’s GPT-2 with what we articulate as two classes of deep learning code, that which pertains to the model and that which underwrites applications built around the model. We then verify this map through case studies of two popular GPT-2 applications: the te…
Critical AI
Playing With Unicorns
AI Dungeon 2 is an indie text adventure game that caught traction within the gaming and hobbyist machine learning communities for its promise of infinite customizable adventures, which are generated and narrated by GPT-2, OpenAI’s 1.5 billion parameter language model. Samples of gameplay illustrate AID’s remarkable linguistic competence and domain knowledge, as well as its capacity for what can only be described as wackiness. More striking are AI…
"Raw Data" Is an Oxymoron
Securing with algorithms
Amid the deployment of algorithmic techniques for security – from the gathering of intelligence data to the proliferation of smart borders and predictive policing – what are the political and ethical stakes involved in securing with algorithms? Taking seriously the generative and world-making capacities of contemporary algorithms, this special issue draws attention to the embodied actions of algorithms as they extend cognition, agency and respons…
Algorithmic Translations
Mallarm's Un Coup de Ds radiate, insectlike, against a white background, the sharply angular lines spinning out from quasi-larval cores suggestive of the sudden dynamic movements of alarm, attack, flight.A nightmare of a Rorschach test for an entomophobe, perhaps, but the discrete shapes also conjure up speculative life forms-transgenic fusions of sea horse and sea urchin, mutant species emerging from the oceanic abyss of Mallarm's poetic text.Wh…
Digital Humanities for the Next Five Minutes
Bureaucratization has not fully captured DH and crystallized its institutional identity. The creative and intellectual energies that lie behind it, along with its still amorphous aspects, have a generative potential that should not be foreclosed in the rush to institutionalize. This essay contends that a tactical media-informed approach to the field would be open to a range of methods and research questions, that such an approach could insist upo…
Dataveillance and Countervailance
Machine Translation and Global English
This essay critiques Warren Weaver's articulation of machine translation as a problem of cryptography and his analogizing of the treatment of language within the context of machine translation to C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards's Basic English project. Basic language, with its privileging of communicability and immediate legibility, is the precondition for the global network of programming languages. Focusing on the underlying principles of machin…
Statistical Material
THREE WORLD MAPS ARE ALIGNED ON THE OPENING SCREEN OF DIGITAL artist John Klima's Political Landscape, Emotional Terrain: one political, one topographical, another emotional. Color-coded in accordance with data [End Page 67] culled from the United Nations, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the World Health Organization, respectively, the three maps register global reports of human rights abuse, geophysical data, and life expectancy statistics. 2 Th…
Reveal Codes
Reveal Codes: Hypertext and Performance 1 Rita Raley Node 1: Charting The *system* is the art, not the output, not the visual screen, and not the code. I want to let the data express itself in the most beautiful possible way. —Net artist Lisa Jevbratt, in Alex Galloway’s “Perl is My Medium” From its very inception, hypertext has had the question of its ontological difference from analog text as one of its core themes. Indeed, from the earlier wav…
"On Global English and the Transmutation of Postcolonial Studies into "Literature in English
What does it signify to speak of a World Literature in English? In what ways might diaspora studies and transnationalism be linked to the contemporary phenomenon of global English, with a mode of comprehending the world that holds English at its center? What can diaspora studies and transnationalism learn from the “language question” frequently raised in discussions of both cultural imperialism and postcolonial writing? What can they learn from t…
Securing with algorithms
Amid the deployment of algorithmic techniques for security – from the gathering of intelligence data to the proliferation of smart borders and predictive policing – what are the political and ethical stakes involved in securing with algorithms? Taking seriously the generative and world-making capacities of contemporary algorithms, this special issue draws attention to the embodied actions of algorithms as they extend cognition, agency and respons…
Critical AI
Digital Humanities for the Next Five Minutes
Bureaucratization has not fully captured DH and crystallized its institutional identity. The creative and intellectual energies that lie behind it, along with its still amorphous aspects, have a generative potential that should not be foreclosed in the rush to institutionalize. This essay contends that a tactical media-informed approach to the field would be open to a range of methods and research questions, that such an approach could insist upo…
Algorithmic Translations
Mallarm's Un Coup de Ds radiate, insectlike, against a white background, the sharply angular lines spinning out from quasi-larval cores suggestive of the sudden dynamic movements of alarm, attack, flight.A nightmare of a Rorschach test for an entomophobe, perhaps, but the discrete shapes also conjure up speculative life forms-transgenic fusions of sea horse and sea urchin, mutant species emerging from the oceanic abyss of Mallarm's poetic text.Wh…
"On Global English and the Transmutation of Postcolonial Studies into "Literature in English
What does it signify to speak of a World Literature in English? In what ways might diaspora studies and transnationalism be linked to the contemporary phenomenon of global English, with a mode of comprehending the world that holds English at its center? What can diaspora studies and transnationalism learn from the “language question” frequently raised in discussions of both cultural imperialism and postcolonial writing? What can they learn from t…
Reveal Codes
Reveal Codes: Hypertext and Performance 1 Rita Raley Node 1: Charting The *system* is the art, not the output, not the visual screen, and not the code. I want to let the data express itself in the most beautiful possible way. —Net artist Lisa Jevbratt, in Alex Galloway’s “Perl is My Medium” From its very inception, hypertext has had the question of its ontological difference from analog text as one of its core themes. Indeed, from the earlier wav…
Machine Translation and Global English
This essay critiques Warren Weaver's articulation of machine translation as a problem of cryptography and his analogizing of the treatment of language within the context of machine translation to C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards's Basic English project. Basic language, with its privileging of communicability and immediate legibility, is the precondition for the global network of programming languages. Focusing on the underlying principles of machin…
Statistical Material
THREE WORLD MAPS ARE ALIGNED ON THE OPENING SCREEN OF DIGITAL artist John Klima's Political Landscape, Emotional Terrain: one political, one topographical, another emotional. Color-coded in accordance with data [End Page 67] culled from the United Nations, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the World Health Organization, respectively, the three maps register global reports of human rights abuse, geophysical data, and life expectancy statistics. 2 Th…
Dataveillance and Countervailance
Digital Humanities for the Next Five Minutes
Bureaucratization has not fully captured DH and crystallized its institutional identity. The creative and intellectual energies that lie behind it, along with its still amorphous aspects, have a generative potential that should not be foreclosed in the rush to institutionalize. This essay contends that a tactical media-informed approach to the field would be open to a range of methods and research questions, that such an approach could insist upo…
Securing with algorithms
Amid the deployment of algorithmic techniques for security – from the gathering of intelligence data to the proliferation of smart borders and predictive policing – what are the political and ethical stakes involved in securing with algorithms? Taking seriously the generative and world-making capacities of contemporary algorithms, this special issue draws attention to the embodied actions of algorithms as they extend cognition, agency and respons…
Algorithmic Translations
Mallarm's Un Coup de Ds radiate, insectlike, against a white background, the sharply angular lines spinning out from quasi-larval cores suggestive of the sudden dynamic movements of alarm, attack, flight.A nightmare of a Rorschach test for an entomophobe, perhaps, but the discrete shapes also conjure up speculative life forms-transgenic fusions of sea horse and sea urchin, mutant species emerging from the oceanic abyss of Mallarm's poetic text.Wh…
"Raw Data" Is an Oxymoron
Playing With Unicorns
AI Dungeon 2 is an indie text adventure game that caught traction within the gaming and hobbyist machine learning communities for its promise of infinite customizable adventures, which are generated and narrated by GPT-2, OpenAI’s 1.5 billion parameter language model. Samples of gameplay illustrate AID’s remarkable linguistic competence and domain knowledge, as well as its capacity for what can only be described as wackiness. More striking are AI…
How to Do Things with Deep Learning Code
The premise of this article is that a basic understanding of the composition and functioning of large language models is critically urgent. To that end, we extract a representational map of OpenAI’s GPT-2 with what we articulate as two classes of deep learning code, that which pertains to the model and that which underwrites applications built around the model. We then verify this map through case studies of two popular GPT-2 applications: the te…
Critical AI
Borges and AI
AI Literacy and the Changing Digital Political Landscape
Delores Phillips and Cultural Studies Association s New Media and Digital Cultures Working Group Co-Host Reed Van Schenck discuss AI literacy, digital politics, and the 2024 US presidential election with authors Elizabeth Losh (William and Mary) and Rita Raley (UC Santa Barbara). This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Stefania Milan
Computer Science (10 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · World Wide Web (4 works) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (3 works)