Podcasts
Ritu Raj is a painter and the author of The Unalgorithmic Self and The Shape of Seeing. On these shows he talks about what AI cannot reach, who signs the work when a machine helped make it, and why abstraction is the way past the algorithm. Each conversation is here as a full interview you can read, with a link to listen.
Newest first
Book 101 Review · with Daniel Lucas · 14 November 2026
“Before you ask the machine anything that matters, write your own answer first. Then ask. Then ask it to argue against you.”
The Digital Transformation Podcast · with Kevin Craine · 11 November 2026
“Intelligence will be cheap. Judgment, trust and meaning will be expensive. Build for those.”
The Leadership Podcast · with Niels Brabandt · 10 November 2026
“AI will multiply intelligence. Only humans can multiply meaning.”
The Digital Executive · with Brian E. Thomas · 2 November 2026
“The only access we have to beat the algorithms is abstraction, because in abstraction there is no answer.”
One practice
“Before you ask the machine anything that matters, write your own answer first. Then ask. Then ask it to argue against you.” From Book 101 Review.
The books
Art, AI, and the Future of Human Thinking
The part of human life that refuses reduction. Not a book against AI. A book about remembering ourselves.
The Genesis of Abstraction
Painting, perception, silence and attention, and the length of string that became the Organic Movement paintings.
Hosts
Bios, topics, press images and review copies are on the media page. Write to ritu@rituart.com.
Art that listens.