The mounting crises have triggered new ways of thinking about artistic research and our own endeavour to engage material articulations at the site of publication. The degree of conflict that many experience daily has become so pronounced that it requires recognition, across the board, also in regard to the submissions that we receive. Of late, we have seen it move from the margins to the centre in a wide spectrum of conflict presentations that include activism, pragmatism, ideology and suffering, as well as ignorance and defiance.