This panel reveals how technological infrastructures of everyday life structure political action under imperial rule. Scholars on this panel study technologies—from computing to electricity to the radio—as nodal points between the workings of empire and contestations from actors on the ground. Aro Velmet, studying the Soviet Union’s cybernetics program, analyzes how the late Soviet state’s computerized data processing initiatives were turned against Moscow’s hegemony in places like Estonia. Trish Kahle turns to the establishment of the Manila Electric Railroad and Light Company in the Philippines under U.S. rule as a form of economic extraction and political domination, as well as the battles waged against the company by its Filipino employees. Andrea Stanton studies the establishment of the Palestine Broadcasting Service as the national radio of British Mandate Palestine and the tensions it created in trying to appeal to various stakeholders. Chelsea Schields considers the advent of electricity in the Dutch colony of Suriname, the racial geographies it re-created in the capital city of Paramaribo, and the targeting of electric infrastructure by anti-colonial activists. Rather than seeing infrastructures solely as sites of materializing imperial power or enacting ideologies of progress, this panel highlights infrastructure as a site of contestation and negotiation.