PhD Candidate, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Contributing Editor, Platypus, The CASTAC Blog
About Thomson
Thomson Chakramakkil is a PhD candidate in the Technology in Society research cluster, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi. He has held visiting fellowships at the Centre for Policy Futures (CPF), University of Queensland, and the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. Prior to doctoral research, he worked at Oracle as an information developer. Thomson's research is situated at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and critical labour studies. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the Indian IT sector and his own experience as a former tech worker, Thomson examines how contemporary workplaces are managed through data-driven aggregation. More recently, he has been exploring his experience of cancer care through the lens of STS, focusing on the affective and epistemic labour that sustains it as both a spectacle and a system.