I am now hosting everything at https://codeberg.org/gsr394
Investigating who gets to make meaning—and how we reclaim that power.
## Research
My work examines decolonial aesthetics and technological sovereignty across occupied territories, with particular focus on Kashmir and Northern Ireland. I study how communities use visual and digital culture to resist dominant narratives, and how Western academic methodologies position themselves as innovations while obscuring longer global traditions.
Current Projects:
- Comparative analysis of cultural production under occupation
- Anti-extractive methodologies for community-engaged scholarship
## Creative Practice
I build things that ask questions about language, algorithms, and who controls them.
Francoism — A 100,000-word experimental "non-film" in novelized form, generated through dual-track algorithmic processes: Markov chain text generation trained on 83+ Jess Franco film subtitles, and procedural image analysis producing ekphrastic prose via OpenCV. No LLMs, no neural networks—rule-based systems that channel Franco's cut-and-paste aesthetic through computational processes. Clause-level style blending across Duras, Robbe-Grillet, and Beckett. [In progress]
Poetry Synthesizer — A handheld device using Raspberry Pi, Markov chains, and thermal printing to generate and physically output constraint-based poetry. Open hardware as democratic technology; text generation as critique of corporate algorithmic control.
The code here reflects my commitment to Free/Libre Open Source Software principles—not just as practical choice, but as methodological commitment to technological sovereignty. These projects explicitly reject generative AI in favor of procedural, rule-based systems where human curation of lexicons and constraints constitutes the authorial intervention.
## Selected Work
- "Constraining Generativity: Rethinking Experimental Literary Futures" — ELO 2025, Toronto
- "Seen, Not Consumed: Decolonial Aesthetics and Refusing Dominant Framing" — South Asia Research Colloquium, Kolkata 2025
- Contributions to Johnson's Dictionary Online (XML/TEI)