Cera Y. J. Tan

PhD candidate in a joint-degree program in Literature at the National University of Singapore and Digital Humanities at King’s College London

Cera Y. J. Tan is a PhD candidate in a joint-degree program in Literature at the National University of Singapore and Digital Humanities at King’s College London. She holds a BA and MA from the National University of Singapore, English Language and Literature department. Her research fields include critical and cultural theory with a focus on biopolitics and technology. She is currently researching the structure of anticipation in the biopolitical oeuvre and its implications on predictive algorithms driving the various facets of life, not least health, law, and civics. Her work has appeared in the journals Cultural Politics and Media Art Study and Theory. Her recent publication examined the techno-biopolitical stakes of contact-tracing technologies implemented in Singapore during the height of the epidemiological crisis.