Digital culture aficionado Benoit Palop revisits Janne Schimmel’s sculptural hacks of retro videogame consoles and gaming PCs, shown during the solo show “But Can It Run Doom” at Super Dakota, Brussels (BE), and finds subversiveness instead of nostalgia. “Gaming has become hyper-corporatized,” writes Palop, lamenting closed platforms, DRM, and franchise dominance. Schimmel offers an alt-future where open-source ideals, right-to-repair principles, and modding communities thrive.