Like Moths to a Flame

Laabs, Laura

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 10July 8, 2025<July 8, 2025

Like Moths to a Flame

Laura Laabs

Laura Laabs follows the smooth path of a drone, the central vehicle in a tech demo for raytracing technologies. Using the moth as a figure for our relationship to light, Laabs asks what is at stake in such mediations of reflection and shine.

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

Doing Good for Disability in Asian Smart Cities?

Kuansong Victor Zhuang, Tay Sze Hwee Jocelyn, Gerard Goggin, Meng Ee Wong and Chei Sian Lee

Victor Zhuang et al. interrogate the discourse of “doing good” for disabled people through smart city initiatives and digital technology, asking how we might move from “doing good” to “doing good better.”

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.