XIAOJI SONG

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Alien without Extraordinary Ability

03-22
Research output realized through research residency at New Politics and Afrofuturism Programme at University of the Underground, guided by Nelly Ben Hayoun and Magid Magid.

Alien without Extraordinary Ability is a research-based board game prototype related to migration and labor practices: on different visa systems, bordering practices related to labor, and how skills and abilities are being evaluated and calculated. The game narrative is set in a factory, and creates two competing incentive structures that motivates the players to choose on which games they wish to follow. The game particularly references the mechanisms lie behind the matrix of quantification through techno-governance tools in border regimes, and creates pathways for media and policy practitioners to reflect on the systemic injustice in such system.
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Game, Research, Speculation, Text, Advocacy
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