Olga Goriunova is Reader at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her most recent book is Bleak Joys. Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility (with Matthew Fuller, University of Minnesota Press, 2019). Goriunova is also the author of Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet (Routledge, 2012), and editor of Fun and Software: Exploring Pleasure, Pain and Paradox in Computing (Bloomsbury, 2014).