“…Meanwhile, underground, trained and untrained technologists, hackers, and playful youth alike cloned and produced their own unique computers and networks, a practice that continued and even flourished after socialism's demise (Fiscutean, 2018). Throughout Eastern Europe, such practices bestowed new modes of piracy, play, sharing, and kinship (Gutfrański, 2019;Haigh, 2007; | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience Issue 6 (Vol 2) Erin McElroy, 2020 Imre, 2016;Jakić, 2014;Kind-Kovács & Labov, 2013;Stachniak, 2015;Švelch, 2018;Wasiak, 2014). Similar (yet also different) technological projects and imperatives can be seen throughout the globe, often having to do with entanglements of empire, the state, peripherality, making do, and subversion (Chan, 2018;Rai, 2019;Rosas, 2010).…”