Care-by-Algorithm in <em>Tiong Bahru Social Club </em>(2020): Imagining the Technification of Happiness in Singapore

Chow, Pei-Sze

Pei-Sze Chow

Pei-Sze Chow is Assistant Professor of Media and Culture and Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Amsterdam. She is Director of the AI and Cultural Production research group at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and co-PI of Automating Cinema: Technographic Explorations of AI in Film Culture, where she is researching the impact of AI-powered tools on film labour. Her most recent book is Transnational Screen Culture in Scandinavia: Mediating Regional Space and Identity in the Oresund Region (Palgrave, 2021) and she was a recipient of the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from 2018 to 2020.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 8June 5, 2023<June 5, 2023

Care-by-Algorithm in Tiong Bahru Social Club (2020): Imagining the Technification of Happiness in Singapore

Pei-Sze Chow

Pei-Sze Chow reads the science-fiction film Tiong Bahru Social Club in the context of Singapore’s Smart Nation policies, arguing that its satirical vision of care-by-algorithm offers insights into how individuals might reclaim agency and “hack” the algocratic state.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 8June 5, 2023<June 9, 2023

Caring Cities: An Introduction

Linda Kopitz and Pei-Sze Chow

In their introduction to the Caring Cities dossier, Linda Kopitz and Pei-Sze Chow consider how care intersects with the urban, and how care might be “designed," through the lenses of technology, politics, and the senses.