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).

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.