mila t samdub
researcher, writer, curator (occasional graphic designer)
currently: resident fellow, information society project, yale law school (working on the aesthetics and ideologies of digital governance infrastructures in india and beyond)
2020-2022: masters of environmental design, yale school of architecture (thesis: maximum governance: managerial populism and violent infrastructures in modi's india)
2017-2018: curator, khoj international artists' association, new delhi (curated: art-science-fiction, this must be true, etc)
a few things I've written:
on tech in india
promises and pitfalls of india's AI industrial policy, in AI nationalism(s): global industrial policy approaches to AI, AI now, 2024
the bangalore ideology, the caravan, 2023
governance interface: the index in modi's india, public culture, 2022
the archers and swordsmen of digital india: trolling as infrastructural performance, in improvised futures: encountering the body in performance edited by ranjana dave, tulika books, 2021
home cooking, real life magazine, 2018
on modernist architecture in india
but does their form have an essence: on actually existing modernism, chiragh delhi, 2019
how to do things with modernist architecture, art india, 2018
troubled destinies: heritage in the time of hindutva, indian cultural forum, 2017
on tibet
oral traditions, in the penguin book of modern tibetan essays edited by tenzin dickie, penguin india, 2023
impossible but existent: tibet after the nation-state, himal southasian, 2020
milasamdub@gmail.com