This paper examines how everyday care is framed and enacted through digital urban infrastructures in times of crisis. Taking the COVID-19 pandemic as a framing, the paper unpacks the ways digital technologies are deployed as care infrastructures to enrol bodies into systems of governance, monitoring, and intervention. We mobilise a thematic and comparative analysis of examples from Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei to address this aim, illuminating the embodied processes through which care practices and relations are shaped by the co-constitution of digital technologies and diverse urban actors under crisis conditions. By casting attention to the digital mediation of bodies and infrastructures in crisis-ridden cities, we develop a nuanced account of care as a constantly emerging and non-teleological phenomenon, manifesting variously as control, solidarity, interdependency, and social connectedness, to name a few, with respect to the use of digital technologies across different urban spaces and temporal contexts. Such an understanding of digitally mediated care helps to foreground the spatiotemporal (re)production and circulation of specific types of bodies and subjectivities in response to urban crises. More pragmatically, thinking comparatively about the digital infrastructuring of care in cities in the context of the global health crisis offers insights into how and why certain cities, such as Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei, have been lauded by popular media as “success stories” in pandemic management and crisis resilience. Our analysis thus addresses critical questions about the infrastructuring of urban populations and the potential reconfiguration of care provision in digitally mediated cities.
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