“We are as you made us”: exploring materiality and (Dis)embodied representations of power in Singaporean AI narratives by Chen, Stephanie Pey Rui

“…In this essay, I first explore the intersection between materiality and technology through the depictions of AI in Sonny Liew’s Malinky Robot and Victor O’Campo’s ‘Infinite Degrees of Freedom’. In these texts, I identify how the tension underlying social relations are necessarily socioeconomic due to the materiality inculcated in the Singaporean cultural imaginary. …”
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