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.

This text is a recount of exploring the algorithmic intricacies of hovering interactions on YouTube video thumbnails. The explorative debugging practice used offers a glimpse into the material implications of hovering, seeing it as a form of exploited labor. Each hover activates a convoluted set of instructions resulting in hardcoded values for what is considered productive and unproductive hovering.

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.»

Figures of speech are a tongue’s gift to the excessive. Some languages rely on this gift enough to turn its usage into an addiction, speakers into addicts, and poetic metaphors into national history. Consider this: is it possible to argue against metaphors—or some other linguistic devices like analogies or similes—without resorting to the thing itself, in some shape? If we can’t stop shaping (and figurating) or stage-designing with words, there can be no incorrect way to formulate such figurations. This is an appeal to use it all gloriously wrong.

One day, walking in the streets of Milan, the Brazilian composer Carlos Gomes happens upon an Italian translation of Il Guarany. The love story between an indigenous warrior and the daughter of a Portuguese nobleman seemed a perfect plot for a new opera, aligned with the imperial desire for compelling national narratives and the European fascination for everything exotic. But what the maestro didn’t know is that going back in time can have consequences, and together with the sixteenth characters he evoked, other forces came into play.

Scientific research and its communication are usually forced into a mold to be considered rigorous. How can poetry serve as a healer, to mediate between the cryptic language of academia and the rest of the world? «Closed Surveillance Circuit» merges poetry with an essayistic approach, exploring themes such as hardware, software, image theory, the obsolete natural-artificial binary, and the experience of life mediated by contemporary technological devices. The poems were originally published by the Barcelona-based publishing house Cielo Santo in 2024.

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.