2020

Coursework

Advisors: Elizabeth Chin,  Sam Creely

Abstract

Though formalized policing activities may be removed in the future, policing can evolve into other forms. Cyber-enhancement becomes a new way of control. Chinese migrant workers is a vulnerable group and willingly to join Cyborg Delivery Service’s free eye implantation project. The division and line between human bodies and machines becomes more and more opaque: migrant workers’ colonized bodies are becoming new sites to situate policing and surveillance. 

Through the messages between the protagonist Qiu and her dad, the fiction tries to intimately ask questions around technology ethics: who will be the first “post-human”? Who will benefit from this emerging cyborg technologies? The built world in this writing sets in future China, which is set at the intersection of existing social struggle like Left-behind children, grey-zones in exchange market and augmented, ubiquitous surveillance.