2026-04-12 –, Münzenbergsaal Language: English
We discuss the big picture of digital militarisation as well as possibilities of resistance.
We address how the tech sector, universities and the military-industrial complexes have been historically inextricably linked, how societies are being militarised through Big Tech, and how Big Tech companies are currently complicit in the genocide in Gaza. We then discuss how effective resistance against the ongoing militarisation of our societies could look like.
- This panel is chaired by Vanessa Thompson.
Mal is a regular cat person working in IT and community builder who cares about art, nature, politics and how technology intersects.
Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist, film-maker and best-selling author of The Palestine Laboratory.
"Rheinmetall entwaffnen" (Disarm Rheinmetall) is an antimilitarist alliance founded in 2018.
Under the motto "War starts here", it unites various antiwar movements and groups that oppose militarization and the arms industry in Germany.
Vanessa Thompson is a distinguished Professor in Black Studies and Social Justice at Queen's University, Canada. She is an interdisciplinary social scientist and her research examines the relation between state violence, racism and capitalism, and how people struggle against interconnected forms of state violence and structural abandonment and build alternatives.