Hui Wong is an MA Communication Studies student working under the co-supervision of Dr. Bobby Benedicto and Dr. Darin Barney.

Hui's MA thesis project stages an encounter between the infrastructural turn in media studies (and the humanities more broadly), the divided or split subject, and the affectively "base" infrastructural object. These readings are grounded in public art and infrastructure in Singapore. Hui's research interests draw on the field of questions posed by the infrastructure and energy humanities, especially those that relate to subjectivity (and its objects), relationality (and separation), nationalist projects, nature, and materialism. His approach to these questions are informed by psychoanalytic theory, Canadian and German media theory, postcolonial studies, and the work of Georges Bataille.

Contact: hui.wong2@mail.mcgill.ca

Projects

MA thesis: Hui's MA thesis, The Infrastructural Relation, locates the linked centralities of affect, subjectivity, and "base materialism" in climate infrastructure in Singapore. This thesis works through the infrastructural turn in media studies by asking the following questions: what are the stakes of defining "infrastructure"? What relationships between the subject and infrastructure afford situated biopolitical claims on behalf of infrastructure? Working with psychoanalytic concepts, postcolonial studies, and the work of Georges Bataille, this thesis traces the work of negativity in the infrastructural relation as one generative point for addressing these questions. This research at McGill is supported by an FRQSC Master's Research Award.

Activity 

Hui is affiliated with the Sex in Theory working group at McGill.