An article exposing the efforts of the government of Singapore to drive technological innovation, combining futurism, advertising and notions of crises as opportunities.
Key Insights:
"Non-sequitur's in portrayals of technological transitions;
The use of fear in the politics of technology - ""the point is to interpret and act on the world, but never to change it. The contemporary turn towards the “innovative state” thus cannot be taken plainly as some counter-hegemonic project to prove the state’s ability to achieve the social optimization that neoliberals expect from the free market. Instead, in testing, experimenting, and reinventing itself, the state too often displaces existing functions of social redistribution through its new role of reengineering a defunct system requiring no more than an upgrade"".
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/90/191694/crisis-and-contingency-at-the-dashboard/
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