1 Special thanks to the Sense Lab and the Inflexions editorial board for generously allowing me to edit this issue, and morally and materially supporting me throughout all the phases of the process. In particular, I would like to thank Erin Manning and Christoph Brunner for their precious assistance in the editorial work. Thanks to Celine Pereira, Natasha Prevost and Alanna Thain for their translation work, and a particularly special thanks to Leslie Plumb for her great organisational capacity and her inventiveness as a web designer. Thanks also to Natasha and Bianca Scliar, the editors of the Tangents section, for a challenging and ‘rhythmic’ process of collaboration-in-the-making, which was never taken for granted by any of us, and has now come to the stage of showing its outcomes.