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The editorial/imaginative centre of the ninth issue of Errant Journal is located in the regions that have experienced Russian imperial aggression from where it makes connections across times, geographies, and ontologies to explore the radical potential of companionship.
Companionship is understood not as agreement, but as a shared responsibility across unequal histories. It means not being full without the other. While forms of imperial and colonial violence might differ in places and through times, the issue recognizes how colonial mechanisms are sustained, how they present themselves as if they were past while shapeshifting and continuing in new forms and places in the present. By bringing these contexts in relation, this issue aims to show how certain borders, biases, clichés, and power structures travel, mutate, and shape both human and non-human lives and landscapes. Ultimately, companionship is about prioritizing life and about insisting that no oppression is singular.
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Contributors: Adriana Arroyo (@adrianaarroyo__ ), Keto Gorgadze (@ketogorgadze ), Andreas Kalkun, Lee Kai Chung (@ancient___soul ), Samira Makki (@cessez_faire_capitalism ), Ana Mikadze (@najgapni ), Petrică Mogoș (@petricamo ), Fabienne Rachmadiev (@fabidanslemetro ), Vaim Sarv (@vaim_sarv ), Victoria Soyan Peemot (@aranchula.horses ), Czyka Tumaliuan (@freestylemommy ), Iryna Zamuruieva (@iryna_zamuruieva )
Cover image by @javkhlan_ariunbold
This issue is a concept by and co-edited with Katia Krupennikova (@k_kru_ )
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Read the full text by AmaraChíkà Emele-Ralph in issue no. 8 of Errant Journal, Against Visibility (or, the Right to Opacity).
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Image: Adeoluwa Henshaw (@blackboydgtal ), Ogbanje, 2025.
Archival images from Petrică Mogoș' research on the politics of non-western friendship and the sounds of internationalism in popular music during Romanian socialism. Published in Errant Journal issue no. 9 Companions alongside the text 'Musicians of the World, Unite!'
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A.K. Kaiza's text about the manuscripts of Ham Mukasa appears in issue no. 1 of Errant Journal, 'When Are We?'
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Errant Journal #9 is here !
This issue explores the radical potential of companionship, making connections across times, geographies and ontologies. Co-edited by @k_kru_
'From Punjab to Palestine: Baba Farid's Spiritual Geography' is the latest in Errant's series of exclusively online open access texts. This article by Arpan Roy examines religion, language and the colonial construct of nation states through the life and shrines dedicated to the medieval Punjabi mystic and poet Baba Farid.
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Image: Sufi Saints Seated Around Holy Scriptures, nineteenth century gouache painting by an Indian painter. Wellcome Collection 575145i.
Have you read the introduction to 'Companions', the latest issue of Errant Journal? This ninth issue is co-edited by Katia Krupennikova and Irene de Craen and in this Editor's Note, they discuss why Errant is looking at colonization beyond Western Europe as the imperial core and the further possibilities of relationality this presents.
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Image: Alibay Bapanov, Kokbory (She-Wolf), 2010, wool, weaving, 156 x 175 cm. Collection @Almatymuseumofarts
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Today we revisit this text by Maina Talia, 'Cultural Identity in the Face of the Climate Crisis: The Case of Tuvalu,' from issue no. 2, Slow Violence.
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This episode is a recording of the talk given by Keto Gorgadze at the launch of Errant Journal's ninth issue titled Companions at Framer Framed in Amsterdam on 18 April 2026.
Keto’s talk begins from the premise that Russia is both a cold and a continental empire. Sharing the same landmass with its colonies has long obscured its status as a colonial power. Since Russia’s territory isn’t divided by an ocean, it was difficult for this imperial power ‘to point to the place on the map where civilization ended and backwardness began.’ Instead, climate became the domain where such borders were drawn, enabling the violence of dispossession through climate determinism. The subtropics of the Caucasus therefore, embodied a climatic ‘otherness’ where imperial officials modelled their extractivism on Dutch and British colonies in Southeast Asia. In this sense, the framework of tropicality—the construction of regions as tropical through racialized accounts of Indigenous peoples, as was also the case in the Caucasus—can be a lens for rewriting histories of tropical violence, interweaving trans-imperial histories of domination and resistance.
Errant Journal issue no. 9, Companions in which Keto’s text appears is available on our website.
Image: Paul Franken, Oriental cityscape (Tbilisi in the Caucasus), 1853.
This text by Ian Beattie appears in issue no. 6 of Errant Journal.
For this week only, in the lead up to 1 May, all new PRINT subscribers will receive a bonus copy of issue no. 6 Debt for free. Subscribers also receive full access to all published content from all issues on our website. Follow the link on our bio to subscribe and continue reading.
Promotion ends 12pm 2 May 2026 CET.
Image: Cuneiform tablet: quittance for a loan in copper, ca. 20th–19th century BCE. Clay tablet from Anatolia, probably from Kültepe (Karum Kanesh), 4.3 x 4.6 x 1.4 cm. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
