The illusory infrastructure of ink: Machinic bodies and epidermic affects in Singapore

• Main Author: WOODS, Orlando
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: infrastructures of ink; machinic bodies; epidermic affects; illusion; Singapore; Asian Studies; Family, Life Course, and Society; Infrastructure
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/140; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1139/viewcontent/IllusoryInK_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper advances recent theorisations of the body-as-infrastructure by exploring the premise that there are multiple bodily infrastructures at play at any one time. It focusses on three infrastructural formations – the body, the skin that encases the body, and tattoos as visual inscriptions on th...