As this article shows, Russia mimics the methods of normalizing colonial occupation and resource extraction practiced by other empires while insisting on its uniqueness. A close reading of the exhibition «Russia» at the All-Russian Exhibition Centre allows for a deeper understanding of the intersections between visual culture and the material infrastructures of settler-colonial occupation. Most recent transimperial collaboration between USA and Russia rendered Ukraine and Russia-occupied Indigenous lands as resources. This article looks at the ways, extractive perspectives and narratives, are developed within Russia.

Shocking Periphery aims to construct a «potential history» of Poland’s reintegration into international capital markets after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It rejects the implementation of the post-1989 liberal economic shock therapy, carried out under Margaret Thatcher’s infamous slogan «There is no alternative» (the TINA hypothesis).

This article seduces the rigid logics of computational imaginaries with crip intimacies, by performing cron jobs as chronic jobs and transforming system maintenance into acts of crip care beyond chrononormativity. Presented as a code repository, it offers a crip critical approach to computational time with a chaotic mix of crip time and cyberfeminist net-art.

The institutional archive as a vessel for historical Black British sonic histories is one of precarity, absence and loss. Its failures are the catalyst for communal gatherings and the expansion of alternative research activisms such as the DWN (Decolonising Wikipedia Network), collectively using Wikipedia to reframe and add to the database under the «lens of anti-racism and decoloniality.»

In this conversation, the editors of the journal issue «Imagination as a Site of Struggle» reflect on intersectional writing on art, media, and technology, thinking through ways of transgressing academic writing. Based on their respective backgrounds and practices, they discuss weaving together creative modes of critical knowledge production and engagement to look beyond the content of the writing to the practice of writing itself.

The question ‹Where are you from?› has typically linked whiteness to Europe and marked non-whites as perpetual outsiders. Black Local History along the Slash of the Im/Possible examines omissions and gaps in Swiss archives and historiography, as it relates to black lives, and calls for critical fabulations as a method and practice of redress, to re-imagine what was, as well as what could be.