Dissertation
Cyber (u/dys)topias: Glitching Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Singapore's Smart Nation
I examine Singapore’s Smart Nation as a technopolitical imaginary that produces compliant digital subjects while obscuring infrastructural and affective violence, and theorise the glitching cyborg as a site where this power fractures.
Image Ethics Note
This site includes AI-generated images. Generative AI relies on extractive datasets, energy-intensive computation, and forms of creative appropriation that remain ethically unsettled. Using these images does not remove this work from those conditions.
Here, the images are not treated as evidence of the present. Because generative systems produce images by statistically recombining existing cultural material, their outputs reveal the visual patterns, assumptions, and narrative limits that currently shape how technological futures are imagined.
The split between seamless cyber-utopia and catastrophic dystopia therefore functions as cultural trace—showing what contemporary computational culture finds easiest to picture, and what remains difficult to imagine at all.
