2.0 -//Pentabarf//Schedule//EN PUBLISH SVTRSH@@programm.infraunited.org -SVTRSH Opening Panel de de 20260410T153000 20260410T163000 1.00000 Opening Panel PUBLIC CONFIRMED Panel https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/SVTRSH/ Münzenbergsaal Cable Resist PUBLISH YPZSA9@@programm.infraunited.org -YPZSA9 Assemblies de de 20260410T163000 20260410T173000 1.00000 Assemblies PUBLIC CONFIRMED Panel https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/YPZSA9/ Münzenbergsaal Cable Resist PUBLISH XF3TKY@@programm.infraunited.org -XF3TKY Keynote Cecilia Rikap de de 20260410T180000 20260410T183000 0.03000 Keynote Cecilia Rikap PUBLIC CONFIRMED Keynote https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/XF3TKY/ Münzenbergsaal Cable Resist Cecilia Rikap PUBLISH VP3TA7@@programm.infraunited.org -VP3TA7 Keynote Nina Scholz de de 20260410T183000 20260410T190000 0.03000 Keynote Nina Scholz PUBLIC CONFIRMED Keynote https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VP3TA7/ Münzenbergsaal Cable Resist Nina Scholz PUBLISH RTA7BJ@@programm.infraunited.org -RTA7BJ Arts Space (Friday) de de 20260410T100000 20260410T210000 11.00000 Arts Space (Friday) Art Pieces at Arts Space in Lause (Lausitzer Straße 10) Jack Conwell, Daniel Donocan-Achi, Selin Bekcekaral // Memento Mori // Mixed Media Game Giacomo Nanni // Mechanical Turk // Video Conny Es Said // Why this result // AI-Painting on Canvas Navid Razavi // Algorithmic Gaze // Sound & Video Sarah Fitterer, Dominik Gangl // Apoteche // Mixed Media Installation Federico Poni // Invisible Work // Blue Tooth tracking Jo Tiffe // baised creatures // Mixed Media Installation Kathrin Hunze // Training your Best Friend // Mixed Media Installation Helena Nikolone // off grid wearables // Video to the Work at FMP1 Ginevra Petrozzi // POV: Time to Influence Your Targeted Ads // Video Art Pieces at FMP1 (conference venue, Franz Mehring Platz 1) Kathrin Hunze // Datahorse // Video Helena Nikonole with 868.net // off grid devices Maria Kaminska, Ben Christ, Fernanda Braun Santos // Sicherheit neu denken // Videos & Poster rainbow pill collective // entering the manosphere // Mixed Media Installation Joschi // Tesla Stoppen // Photos reincantamento // Online-Archive Berlin Luddites // Cables of Resistance Digest // Offline Archive PUBLIC CONFIRMED Art Installation https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RTA7BJ/ Lause (arts space) Cable Resist Art Space Lause 10 PUBLISH JXEX7H@@programm.infraunited.org -JXEX7H Good Morning & Housekeeping de de 20260411T094500 20260411T100000 0.01500 Good Morning & Housekeeping PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/JXEX7H/ Münzenbergsaal Cable Resist PUBLISH RQ7JYW@@programm.infraunited.org -RQ7JYW Supply Chain panel de de 20260411T101500 20260411T111500 1.00000 Supply Chain panel PUBLIC CONFIRMED Panel https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RQ7JYW/ Münzenbergsaal PUBLISH WMNMGP@@programm.infraunited.org -WMNMGP Data Center Panel en en 20260411T133000 20260411T150000 1.03000 Data Center Panel PUBLIC CONFIRMED Panel https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/WMNMGP/ Münzenbergsaal Dylan Murphy Eda Luis García Valverde Ola Bonati PUBLISH TQKT8W@@programm.infraunited.org -TQKT8W Panel discussion: Big Tech against our Cities - Gentrifizierung, Privatisierung und Überwachung en en 20260411T163000 20260411T173000 1.00000 Panel discussion: Big Tech against our Cities - Gentrifizierung, Privatisierung und Überwachung PUBLIC CONFIRMED Panel https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/TQKT8W/ Münzenbergsaal Christoph Hassler (Bündnis Hansaplatz) Maja-Lee Voigt Katja Schwaller Claudia Seldin Unnamed user PUBLISH RK7QBN@@programm.infraunited.org -RK7QBN Overview panel on labour and tech en en 20260411T173000 20260411T183000 1.00000 Overview panel on labour and tech PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RK7QBN/ Münzenbergsaal Yonatan Miller PUBLISH 9M9TPA@@programm.infraunited.org -9M9TPA Widerstandsstrategien de de 20260411T200000 20260411T210000 1.00000 Widerstandsstrategien PUBLIC CONFIRMED Panel https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/9M9TPA/ Münzenbergsaal Cable Resist PUBLISH QL3FNW@@programm.infraunited.org -QL3FNW Cloud Factories: Researching data centre sites before the Cloud hits the ground en en 20260411T100000 20260411T110000 1.00000 Cloud Factories: Researching data centre sites before the Cloud hits the ground Cloud Factories is an artistic research project that engages with landscapes designated as future data centre sites through counter-mapping, visual experimentation and print production. The starting point for our research is the story of a hyperscale data centre project by Meta: When their plans to built an enormous data centre near the rural Dutch town of Zeewolde became public in 2022, a coalition of farmers, activists and local residents mobilised to stop the project. Soon after, regional authorities in Talavera de la Reina, a small city in a drought-affected and economically deprived region in Central Spain unveiled that Meta is planning build a large data centre on the outskirts of the city. Construction is due to start soon. Our project seeks to give form to the multilayered histories, presents and futures inscribed to landscapes selected to host the ‘Cloud’. What is destroyed when (supposedly) ‘empty’ territories are transformed into the physical structures enabling our digital culture? And which alternative, regenerative publishing practices can emerge in dialogue with such landscapes? In 2024 and 2025, we have conducted multiple site visits to both locations, complemented by conversations with local residents, activists and experts. This has resulted in a collection of photographs, cyanotype and risograph prints, experiments with soil inks and a zine. In dialogue with participants, we will explore how to expand our research to other sites and ways of seeing. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QL3FNW/ Salon Papertrail PUBLISH MTLBX8@@programm.infraunited.org -MTLBX8 The Kill Cloud as Corporate Takeover: The Convergence of The Military, Venture Capitalism and Technology Start-Ups en en 20260411T133000 20260411T150000 1.03000 The Kill Cloud as Corporate Takeover: The Convergence of The Military, Venture Capitalism and Technology Start-Ups The infrastructure of military control is no longer owned and operated under the sole domain of the military and its national security or intelligence partners, it is now operated predominantly by Silicon Valley elites. This is the first time in history that executives from tech corporations own and can control military weapons infrastructure without military or federal government input. We saw this during the Crimea Drone Attack in 2022, Musk refused a Ukrainian government request ordering shutdown of Starlink satellite service. This privatised, networked military ecosystem – described by Lisa Ling and Cian Westmoreland as the Kill Cloud – dominates warfare through globally connected technologies. The workshop brings together Lisa Ling, Tatiana Bazzichelli, and Joana Moll to analyse the Kill Cloud’s role in fostering technofascism and reshaping power. Ling focuses on the expansive nature of technology throughout multiple military domain and the machinations of domination by Silicon Valley. Joana Moll presents how digital technologies inscribe ideologies through the body, examining the convergence of labor, leisure, and militarisation within the body-device assemblage. Bazzichelli presents the Disruption Network Institute, a Berlin-based initiative investigating AI as a lethal weapon and researching the ethical, social, and political effects of algorithmic warfare, surveillance, and data control. The aim is to engage participants in developing strategies of resistance. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Long workshop https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/MTLBX8/ Salon Tatiana Bazzichelli, Lisa Ling, Joana Moll PUBLISH VBQPXX@@programm.infraunited.org -VBQPXX Navigating censorship & digital exclusion: what we can learn from adult content creators en en 20260411T150000 20260411T153000 0.03000 Navigating censorship & digital exclusion: what we can learn from adult content creators Tech companies have appointed themselves as our moral police, forcing organizers everywhere to walk a fine line between visibility and safety. Our movements use these platforms to shape political narratives, distribute capital, and shift power. But big tech censorship increasingly influences how we can share information. Adult content creators and sex workers are often the first victims of censorship and silencing on digital platforms. When those policies go unchallenged, tech companies are emboldened to continue tightening the moral leash on all of us. The ambiguity and lack of transparency of platform policies that try to describe what types of bodies are offensive quickly become the policies that describe what type of ideologies are offensive – always targeting women, trans people, and people of color most of all. Sex workers and adult content creators have been here before. They share information within the community on how to use platforms to stay visible and connected, while keeping each other safe. The risks they face in terms of exclusion from financial platforms (Stripe, PayPal), content platforms (Patreon, Steam), social platforms (Instagram, X), are rolling out for everyone, if we step out of line of the moral mandates set by big tech. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VBQPXX/ Salon Raksha Muthukumar PUBLISH VUBTA3@@programm.infraunited.org -VUBTA3 Platform work as an answer to what? Understanding migrant workers' life worlds beyond the gig en en 20260411T163000 20260411T170000 0.03000 Platform work as an answer to what? Understanding migrant workers' life worlds beyond the gig This talk draws on two research projects with gig workers in Hamburg and Berlin conducted between 2021 and 2024. While based on in-depth interviews with migrant workers, the aim is not academic debate, but to share insights useful for activists, unions, and social movements working to organise platform workers and build power. Much discussion of platform labour focuses on apps, algorithms, and digital control. Our research shows that this only captures part of the picture. For many workers, especially migrants, platform work is an answer not merely to the need to generate an income but also, we argue, to biographical breaches, downward social mobility, and experiences of (gendered) violence. By looking at workers’ life trajectories rather than only their immediate labour position, we show how platforms draw on a workforce already made precarious by migration regimes and blocked career paths. Gig work can provide fast income in moments of crisis, enable “sideways moves” when promised futures fail, and offer narratives of independence that temporarily mask insecurity and deskilling. For organisers, this matters. Improving conditions on platforms requires strategies that take workers’ broader lives seriously: multilingual organising, alliances with migrant and housing movements, demands for secure residence status, and labour rights enforcement that does not depend on stable contracts. Understanding why people end up in platform work is key to organising. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VUBTA3/ Salon Barbara PUBLISH EGJRXQ@@programm.infraunited.org -EGJRXQ Within or against? The role of IT workers in the fight against big tech de de 20260411T170000 20260411T173000 0.03000 Within or against? The role of IT workers in the fight against big tech PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/EGJRXQ/ Salon Valentin PUBLISH E7PQDL@@programm.infraunited.org -E7PQDL Acid Clouds en en 20260411T100000 20260411T103000 0.03000 Acid Clouds The urgency of Acid Clouds is embedded in crucial ecological, socio-economic, political and ethical issues arising from the imperative of capitalism and the misconception that everything needs to be digitised, without fully understanding the actual ecological footprint. At the core lies the exponentially growing electronic waste and the disastrous environmental impact due to the unrestrained consumption of energy of data storage centres, the CO2 emitting power that is required to run their digital frameworks, and the rapidly increasing production and consumption of data and of data traffic by our societies. To map the complexity of the problem, Acid Clouds has compiled a long list of extensive interviews with internet industry leaders (fragments are available here: www.acidclouds.org). These conversations allowed to identify topics related not only to the giant ecological footprint, but also raise urgent ethical and political issues and questions in the field of digital rights, the ownership and administration of Big Data, the power of large tech companies, public access to information, privacy issues and the vulnerability of data versus their indelibility. The project illustrates how complex and entangled the issues surrounding data centres are. It makes clear that data centres have become the new control rooms of the automated landscape, not only storing the world’s growing body of virtual knowledge but also facilitating its distribution and the flow of capital. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/E7PQDL/ Seminar room 1 Niels Schrader PUBLISH R8LJC9@@programm.infraunited.org -R8LJC9 Circular Economies, Recycled Colonies en en 20260411T110000 20260411T113000 0.03000 Circular Economies, Recycled Colonies The data colonialism of Big Tech is built on a much more familiar form of resource colonialism: mineral extraction. The current political acceptance of green capitalism affords ethical cover for new mining projects to resource energy transition technologies. Across sub-Saharan Africa mineral deposits originally identified by colonial geological surveys, and at the time deemed uneconomic, are now being drilled, mapped and mined to provide for energy transition in the economies of the Global North. In the context of this global resource race, KoBold Metals are reproducing Big Tech’s data-colonialism in the field of geophysics. This Silicon Valley start-up whose funders include Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and venture capital firms, has developed two proprietary pieces of software: TerraShed and MachineProspector. The former is a repository of geophysical surveys, mineral maps and exploration data scraped from the public domain and purchased from private companies. The latter is an AI-driven prospecting tool trained on the accumulated data in TerraShed to model every possible ore body that could produce the signal recorded by a geophysical sensor. These softwares apply Big Tech’s familiar data-colonial playbook to the earth’s crust, aiming to monopolise the mineral mapping of the entire planet under the convenient guise of green extractivism. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/R8LJC9/ Seminar room 1 Stephen Cornford PUBLISH 8HPLM9@@programm.infraunited.org -8HPLM9 Data centres and the imperialist casino en en 20260411T113000 20260411T120000 0.03000 Data centres and the imperialist casino Media reports on data center expansions have tended to focus on how these data centers immiserate people in their vicinity — through, for instance, increased power bills, emissions, or increased strain on water supply. This narrative, while true, conflicts with the observation that data centres are also being constructed en masse in wealthy regions with strong labour movements, such as the Nordic countries. Framings of data centres here have framed their construction as desirable for digital economies, while also spurring job growth in construction. Negative externalities are framed as manageable, such as by relying on renewable energy, or by reusing excess heat. I make the argument that the core logic driving the data center boom in the age of the generative AI bubble — rather than job creation or digitisation — is to attempt to accumulate capital through charging or taxing fictitious capital circulating within Big Tech. The difference between the accumulation strategy in the Nordics and elsewhere is rather a question of how strong labour movements are able to both offset negative externalities and distribute the gains from this “casino” domestically. Unlike stock market speculation, however, the material infrastructures underlying this casino require vast quantities of critical minerals — effectively implying that the existence of the casino is predicated upon the imperialist violence required to maintain low primary commodity prices in mining regions. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/8HPLM9/ Seminar room 1 Vinit Ravishankar PUBLISH DULTBL@@programm.infraunited.org -DULTBL Boom, Bust, Quit: The Technology Hype Cycle As Capitalism's Latest Frontier en en 20260411T133000 20260411T140000 0.03000 Boom, Bust, Quit: The Technology Hype Cycle As Capitalism's Latest Frontier In *The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism*, George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison argue that capitalism is always in search of new frontiers to colonialise, exploit and leave. This process of "Boom, Bust, Quit" drives the engine of capitalism and its story of perpetual growth. As the world's resources get increasingly used up, capitalists have become increasingly desperate, seeking to colonise inhospitable environments such as space and even inventing new frontiers to exploit. The Technology Hype Cycle is a distillation of this process: A new technological concept such as digital currency, virtual reality, or the transformer model becomes a new frontier as capitalists race to become the biggest exploiter. Eventually, the frontier collapses under the weight of its own hype, leaving capitalists scrambling to find a new technology to take on this role. When a new one is found, the cycle continues. These digital frontiers have physical impacts: the energy for wasted computation is transformed into carbon dioxide and the mines used to extract raw materials wreck local environments. In this way, the Technology Hype Cycle is both a key driver of and a symptom of the larger global systems crisis, where the exploitative demand for perpetual growth hits the physical limits of a finite Earth. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/DULTBL/ Seminar room 1 Alex Durrant PUBLISH BHURD7@@programm.infraunited.org -BHURD7 Confronting Military Technoscience: Academic and Activist Engagements en en 20260411T140000 20260411T143000 0.03000 Confronting Military Technoscience: Academic and Activist Engagements This joint talk brings together critical scholarship and political engagement to open a conversation about how to confront today’s military technoscience beyond academic spaces. Jutta Weber will share her research on military AI, autonomous weapon systems, and drone infrastructures, including the MeHuCo project on meaningful human control, tracing how “software-based war” reshapes societies through datafication, automation, and expanding security infrastructures. She will outline how ideas such as autonomy, control, speed, precision, and accountability are being redefined in military and security contexts and what this means for everyday life. Building on this, Nil Uzun will reflect on activist and political engagements that contest military-technological power, bringing together critical perspectives from feminist and post/decolonial studies to discuss multiple forms of organizing, campaigning, and other forms of resistance. Together, we want to think with participants about potential points of intervention and alliances within communities of academics, artists, journalists, and social movements, as well as collective strategies to unsettle the normalization of military technoscience in Germany, Europe, and beyond. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/BHURD7/ Seminar room 1 Nil Uzun Jutta Weber PUBLISH BTCNQK@@programm.infraunited.org -BTCNQK Algorithmic Violence and Mexican Feminist Resistance on X en en 20260411T143000 20260411T150000 0.03000 Algorithmic Violence and Mexican Feminist Resistance on X This talk is based on my Bachelor’s thesis Between Visibility and Disappearance and examines how Mexican cyberfeminist activists navigate algorithmic governance, platform capitalism, and digital gender-based violence on X (formerly Twitter). In Mexico, around ten women are killed every day. Under these conditions, digital platforms are not neutral spaces but critical infrastructures for survival: they enable denunciation, memory, and collective mobilization. At the same time, the transformation of Twitter into X has intensified repression through opaque algorithms, “pay-to-play” visibility, dismantled moderation systems, and the normalization of misogynist and anti-feminist discourse. Based on qualitative interviews with feminist activists, journalists, and human rights lawyers, the talk demonstrates how feminist visibility is structurally constrained while reactionary and authoritarian discourses are increasingly amplified. Algorithmic visibility is shown to be a political instrument rather than a technical one, deeply shaped by corporate interests and patriarchal power. The talk also focuses on resistance: feminist counter-strategies such as collective networks, memory activism, careful visibility practices, cross-platform migration, and the creation of autonomous feminist media ecosystems. Rather than accepting Big Tech infrastructures as inevitable, the contribution invites feminist movements to rethink digital publics beyond capitalist and technocratic control. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/BTCNQK/ Seminar room 1 Elisa Flores Weiss PUBLISH XR3RLV@@programm.infraunited.org -XR3RLV Why Work? Shifting the Lens from What Work Demands to What Workers Desire en en 20260411T170000 20260411T173000 0.03000 Why Work? Shifting the Lens from What Work Demands to What Workers Desire Future of work is an important subject of interest for scholars and practitioners who are interested in understanding the implications for work and workers. Of particular concern are changes related to technological developments including artificial intelligence (AI) and automation together with increasing precarious working conditions, short term or zero hour contracts, limited social protection and uncertain wages. These developments are also followed by the challenges to class formation due to decreasing union strength, slow growth service economies, and subcontracting models on one hand and rising authoritarianism, unravelling of social democracies, and the disintegrating political Left on the other. By directing attention to the concept of ‘meaningful work’ I show how workers in low-paid and precarious work struggle for autonomy and dignity. By presenting data from my research on content moderators in India and migrant platform workers in Germany, I show three measures of meaningfulness, namely autonomy, self actualization, and inclusive working conditions. The examination of what constitutes meaningful work for workers in the Global South and for minoritized populations such as migrants, groups that are often excluded from conventional frameworks, we can situate their experiences within global inequalities and imagine what a more just future of work might look like. More broadly, it allows us to ask what work means and its value for workers beyond the wage relation. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/XR3RLV/ Seminar room 1 Sana Ahmad PUBLISH AQEKRA@@programm.infraunited.org -AQEKRA Infrastrukturextraktivismus - wie Big Tech mit Rechenzentren unsere Stromnetze und Städte ausbeutet de de 20260411T173000 20260411T180000 0.03000 Infrastrukturextraktivismus - wie Big Tech mit Rechenzentren unsere Stromnetze und Städte ausbeutet Steigende Strompreise durch den hohen Energieverbrauch, ein enormer Wasserbedarf oder der zunehmende Einsatz fossiler Energiequellen – geht es um die teilweise dramatischen Auswirkungen von Rechenzentren und Big Tech, richtet sich unser Blick meist in die USA. Doch so weit entfernt von uns passiert das alles nicht - auch wir sind mittendrin. Deutschland ist schon jetzt das europäische Land mit den meisten Rechenzentren. Auch hier nimmt vor allem die Zahl großer Rechenzentren zu und dank KI-Hardware steigt ihr Strom- und Wasserbedarf. Geht es nach der EU und der Bundesregierung, soll ihr Ausbau weiter vorangetrieben werden. Insbesondere in und um Großstädte wie Frankfurt am Main und Berlin zeigen sich jedoch die massiven Auswirkungen ihres Energiehungers und Platzbedarfs. Indra hat die Situation in Frankfurt im Rahmen einer Recherche für AlgorithmWatch untersucht. Fabian und Niklas haben die Rechenzentrumsexpansion in Berlin für eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit analysiert. Sie zeigen, was vor Ort vor sich geht und wie sich der massive Rechenzentrumausbau auf Strompreise, Netze und Flächen auswirkt. Sie decken mit dem Begriff des Infrastrukturextraktivismus ein Muster auf, dass sich in beiden Städten – und weltweit – wiederholt und zeigen den Zusammenhang mit Big Tech. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/AQEKRA/ Seminar room 1 Niklas Steinke Indra Jungblut Fabian Halfar PUBLISH ME7E9E@@programm.infraunited.org -ME7E9E Parlamentarismus nutzen - Rechenzentren bekämpfen de de 20260411T180000 20260411T183000 0.03000 Parlamentarismus nutzen - Rechenzentren bekämpfen Die Bundesregierung legt eine Rechenzentrenstrategie vor. Ihr Fokus liegt auf der Schaffung einer „KI-Nation“ und einem möglichst rasanten Ausbau, ohne Rücksicht auf Energie- und Wasserverbrauch oder wie viel Rechenleistung wirklich gebraucht wird. Auch das immer wieder verwendete Stichwort „Digitale Souveränität“ heißt nicht, dass sich von BigTech und Hyperscalern losgesagt wird. Gleichzeitig werden auf lokaler Ebene Grundstücke vergeben und über Bauleitplanungen, Vergabeverfahren und Netzanschlüsse möglich gemacht. Doch auf allen Ebenen entscheiden Parlamente über die Rahmenbedingungen. Wie kann die parlamentarische Linke genutzt werden, um dieser Fehlentwicklung etwas entgegenzusetzen? Wie können privilegierter Zugang zu Informationen und die Möglichkeiten des Parlamentarismus sinnvoll genutzt werden? Wie kann das Wissen über Planungen der Bundesregierung dazu dienen, um Protest zielgerichtet zu organisieren? Dabei sind Rechenzentren nur ein Beispiel wie der parlamentarische Zugang genutzt werden kann. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/ME7E9E/ Seminar room 1 Sonja Lemke PUBLISH GLXFFF@@programm.infraunited.org -GLXFFF From Big Oil to Big Tech: the power of cloud giants in sustainability transition en en 20260411T100000 20260411T103000 0.03000 From Big Oil to Big Tech: the power of cloud giants in sustainability transition Big Tech is turning its energy dependence into a new way of steering the energy transition, as it is already becoming a provider of digital infrastructures and technologies that are crucial to operate renewable energy systems. This talk will explain in-depth how Amazon, Google and Microsoft are taking advantage of this window of opportunity to expand their structural power in global politics. It shows how the ownership of AI and data is helping these companies move into developing technologies which they promote as silver bullets for sustainability problems; and how governments around the world are adopting these ‘solutions’, increasing their dependencies on US Big Tech firms. It highlights how these patterns are accelerating within the EU, and the need to challenge Big Tech’s infrastructural power over sustainability transitions. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/GLXFFF/ Seminar room 2 Silvia Weko PUBLISH CFA9NN@@programm.infraunited.org -CFA9NN From Stargate Data Centres to the Indigenous Arctic – tracking AI's toxic supply chain. en en 20260411T103000 20260411T110000 0.03000 From Stargate Data Centres to the Indigenous Arctic – tracking AI's toxic supply chain. Based on an original investigation for Truthdig.com, this talk will platform the voices of indigenous leaders, workplace organisers, lawyers and activists who are resisting at every point along AI’s toxic supply chain. The AI boom is being built on a new wave planetary pollution, extraction and exploitation at a scale the world has simply never seen before. It will feature: – local activists resisting the gargantuan data centres which are sucking in scarce water and melting the grid. – union organizers at Chip Communities United, resisting the massive, polluting semi-conductor factories, called “fabs”, that are being built across the US to serve Trump’s American AI First agenda. – A lawyer bringing environmental cases against most advanced semiconductor factories on the planet in Taiwan. – Workplace campaigners in South Korea, who are fighting a planned semi-conductor “mega cluster” that will need half as much water as Seoul, and for which nuclear reactors are being planned to power it. – Indigenous leaders in Neskantaga, Northern Canada, Inuk Greenland and in West Papua, Indonesia, whose territories are at risk. Critical minerals extraction will increase 400% for digital and renewable technologies, and first nations are on the frontline. We’ll conclude with alternative tech futures - the four futures model for regenerative pathways, permacomputing - tools for conviviality and Usrsula Franklin's "Holistic Technologies" framework PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/CFA9NN/ Seminar room 2 Alistair Alexander PUBLISH VBHBCT@@programm.infraunited.org -VBHBCT KI kurzschliessen: Widerstand gegen neue Datenzentren in der Schweiz de de 20260411T110000 20260411T111500 0.01500 KI kurzschliessen: Widerstand gegen neue Datenzentren in der Schweiz In den letzten Jahren wurde die Schweiz zu einem Standort mit zahlreichen BigTech-Niederlassungen und lokalen Techfirmen, unter anderem angetrieben durch Hochschulen. Die Dichte von BigTech in der Region Zürich ist heute grösser als im Silicon Valley. Mit dem derzeitigen KI-Hype ist in der Schweiz nun ein massiver Ausbau von KI-Infrastruktur im Gange. Die Schweiz ist bereits eines der Länder mit den meisten Datenzentren pro Kopf - trotzdem sollen in den nächsten Jahren 10 weitere Datenzentren entstehen. Dem Schweizer Stromnetz droht damit ernsthaft die Überlastung. Gleichzeitig müssen Anwohner*innen um ihre Wasserversorgung fürchten. Doch Widerstand regt sich. Im Rahmen der Kampagne "KI kurzschliessen" wird in der Schweiz an einem Bündnis gegen BigTech gearbeitet, das sich in einem Widerstandscamp vom 2. bis 9. Juli in der Deutschschweiz konsolidieren wird. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VBHBCT/ Seminar room 2 Aufstände der Allmende PUBLISH QXWEKV@@programm.infraunited.org -QXWEKV Counting the stones in my computer : an abyssal perspective on the value of time en en 20260411T111500 20260411T113000 0.01500 Counting the stones in my computer : an abyssal perspective on the value of time The speed of computation defines the performance of a computer. Before the machines as we know it, these calculations used to be done by humans computers. This workforce was mostly composed of women, as their wages were significantly lower than men. Computing, the process of performing calculations, relies on the price of labor. A CPU, the processing unit of a computer, is an integrated circuit. It's an assembly of components, whose manufacturing requires a diversity of metals and minerals, extracted and processed on a global scale. Their production relies on the workforce of low-income nations, a system of exploitation that destroys simultaneously their ecosystems. This performed lecture explores the notion of conviviality from Ivan Illich and questions our relationship with time and technical progress. My starting point is the race for mining the abyss to extract polymetallic nodules, these rock concretions with a growth rate of 10 mm per million's year. I will dive into the architecture of the chips and the computing process, exploring its relations with exploitation and extractivism. This analog visual essay brings together the perspective of rocks and the deep time of geology to the global scales of extraction and exploitation required for the manufacturing of chips. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QXWEKV/ Seminar room 2 Coralie Gourguechon PUBLISH 3VJ3VA@@programm.infraunited.org -3VJ3VA AI accelerationism and the quest for unlimited growth en en 20260411T113000 20260411T114500 0.01500 AI accelerationism and the quest for unlimited growth Can we scale our way out of the crisis? Many in the tech world believe that AI's wide adoption will act as a "game-changer" and ultimate solution to boost stagnating economies. Proponents in Silicon Valley and beyond see AI as an opportunity not just to increase productivity, but to unleash a whole new dimension of technological acceleration, leading to unprecedented levels of growth. This short talk presents a critique of the growth paradigm and its integration into the tech world, dissecting the ideological role that AI plays in fueling a growth-obsessed system. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/3VJ3VA/ Seminar room 2 Annie PUBLISH QKQRCD@@programm.infraunited.org -QKQRCD KI, Big-Tech und Klimahölle: Wie die Bundesregierung noch mehr Rechenzentren nach Deutschland holen möchte - und warum es dringend Widerstand braucht de de 20260411T140000 20260411T143000 0.03000 KI, Big-Tech und Klimahölle: Wie die Bundesregierung noch mehr Rechenzentren nach Deutschland holen möchte - und warum es dringend Widerstand braucht In der Vorstellung der Bundesregierung führen mehr Rechenzentren quasi automatisch zu Wohlstand, Innovation und Unabhängigkeit - und zu KI-Systemen, die alle möglichen gesellschaftlichen und staatlichen Probleme lösen werden. Deshalb freut sie sich über jede Investitionsankündigung von Google, Amazon und Co, folgt deren Druck zur Deregulierung, schraubt an den Auflagen beispielsweise des Energieeffizienzgesetzes und begünstigt die Techriesen noch weiter. Doch Deutschland ist bereits jetzt der größte Standort von Rechenzentren in Europa. Ihr Ausbau führt zu einem immensen Strom- und Wasserverbrauch. Schon jetzt werden immer mehr Gaskraftwerke zu ihrer Versorgung neu gebaut. Dank des KI-Booms wird dies in Zukunft zu einem Riesenproblem für das Klima. Währenddessen erweisen sich die Versprechen der KI immer mehr als irreführend. Und in der jetzigen Form dient all der Hype vor allem Google, Amazon und Microsoft - mit all den damit einhergehenden Problemen. Statt nur immer mehr KI und immer mehr Rechenzentren braucht es deshalb eine politische Debatte: Welche KI für welche Zwecke wollen wir – und wem nützt sie? Es braucht Regularien und eine Begrenzung des Hypes. Und es braucht eine IT-Infrastruktur, die allen nutzt. All dies kann nur eine starke Bewegung erreichen, die Klima-, Digital- und demokratische Ziele miteinander vereint. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QKQRCD/ Seminar room 2 Julian Bothe PUBLISH NCFNNP@@programm.infraunited.org -NCFNNP Trans Rechte mit Digitalrechten queeren de de 20260411T143000 20260411T150000 0.03000 Trans Rechte mit Digitalrechten queeren Es ist an der Zeit, klare Policies für queere und trans Rechte in der digitalen Agenda zu etablieren. Klingt wie ein No-Brainer, aber bisher gibt es genau diese Überschneidung der Themen nicht. Gerade die Erfahrungen um das Selbstbestimmungsgesetz 2024 herum zeigt, wie wenig queere Themen in der Digitalrechts-Bubble ankommen. Erst als letztes Jahr eine Verordnung zum Meldewesen im letzten Moment von der Bundesratstagesordnung genommen wurde, gab es einen Moment des Hände reichen. Aber wir brauchen mehr davon und wir müssen Themen dezidierter annehmen und bearbeiten. Der Schutz der Privatsphäre, Einsicht in medizinische Daten, überwachen von queeren, trans, inter und nonbinären Menschen durch rosa Listen sind nur ein schneller Themenüberblick. Letzten Endes sind diese Themen auch eine hart umkämpfte Front gegen den Faschismus- und bisher wenig bis gar nicht in der netzbwegten Welt angekommen. Stehen wir also endlich zusammen Schulter an Schulter, gegen den Faschmismus und die Überwachung durch big Tech. Dieser Vortrag ist der Impuls, gemeinsame Positionen, Bündnisse und Strategien gegen Rosa Listen, Überwachung, mit anderen Netzbewegten schaffe. Insofern, ist das ganz auch etwas mehr als einfach nur Vortrag und mehr ein Austausch. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/NCFNNP/ Seminar room 2 Jyn PUBLISH FB9FGC@@programm.infraunited.org -FB9FGC Misogyny by design: Why resisting Big Tech requires feminist countergovernance en en 20260411T150000 20260411T153000 0.03000 Misogyny by design: Why resisting Big Tech requires feminist countergovernance Big Tech companies operate as political actors that shape democratic life, public discourse, and AI governance in ways that are deeply gendered. Platform infrastructures amplify misogyny, queerphobia, and racialised violence while monetising harm through attention economies and weak or selective content moderation. From generative AI producing non-consensual sexualised images to the amplification of manosphere and far-right content, these dynamics are structural to platform power. This talk argues that current AI governance regimes, centred on voluntary ethics, risk management, and elite participation, fail to confront these harms. They privilege corporate and state interests, neutralise conflict, and shift social and political costs onto marginalised groups. In this context, feminist resistance cannot be reduced to inclusive design or representation within Big Tech-led frameworks. Drawing on countergovernance and feminist democratic theory, the talk reframes resistance as organised contestation: legal challenges, investigative journalism, grassroots coalitions, and collective mobilisation. Focusing on Brazil, it examines struggles around children’s digital rights, platform accountability, disinformation, and AI governance, showing how feminist and civil society movements confront platform power amid authoritarian backlash and deep structural inequalities, and how conflict becomes a democratic resource for imagining futures beyond Big Tech. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/FB9FGC/ Seminar room 2 Carine Roos PUBLISH JLJY9Y@@programm.infraunited.org -JLJY9Y Reverse engineering to support workers rights en en 20260411T163000 20260411T170000 0.03000 Reverse engineering to support workers rights Reversing.works is an organization developing a reproducible methodology to investigate the software used by platform workers. The goal is to find evidence of labor rights or privacy violations to help the workers build legal cases against their employers and fight back against algorithmic surveillance. Not only that, this kind of investigations can help understand the logic used by their employer to control, direct, punish or reward the workers, allowing them to build countermeasures. In our talk, we will present the context of the problem, how we perform investigations, and what an organization would need to start performing similar investigations. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/JLJY9Y/ Seminar room 2 Simone Robutti (Tech Workers Coalition) PUBLISH 9LVYR7@@programm.infraunited.org -9LVYR7 Redscout24 - Zur digitalen Wohnungsfrage de de 20260411T180000 20260411T183000 0.03000 Redscout24 - Zur digitalen Wohnungsfrage Im September 2025 stieg Scout24 in den DAX auf und reiht sich damit in Unternehmen wie BMW, Rheinmetall und SAP ein. In unserem Vortrag zeigen wir, wie Immoscout & Co. mit einem ausgeklügelten technischen System Monopolprofite generiert, die Mieten in die Höhe treibt und ein Vermieterparadies aufgebaut hat, das die Mieter:innen in den Wahnsinn treibt. Wir bleiben aber nicht bei der Kritik stehen, sondern zeigen, wie durch die Vergesellschaftung von Plattformen der Daseinsvorsorge ein Werkzeug entstehen kann, das den Mittellosen auf dem Wohnungsmarkt hilft. Vermieter in ihre Schranken zu weisen und Markttransparenz für alle statt nur für die Besitzenden zu schaffen. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/9LVYR7/ Seminar room 2 Sandra PUBLISH WTVSMX@@programm.infraunited.org -WTVSMX Wie wehrt man sich gegen Rechenzentren – Fishbowl-Diskussion über Herausforderungen und Chancen de de 20260411T100000 20260411T110000 1.00000 Wie wehrt man sich gegen Rechenzentren – Fishbowl-Diskussion über Herausforderungen und Chancen Die Anzahl von Rechenzentren nimmt weltweit drastisch zu. Der Boom in Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) und die wachsende Nachfrage nach Cloud-Diensten führen dazu, dass Big-Tech-Unternehmen Milliardensummen in mehr Rechenleistung investieren. So wie sich Rechenzentren ausbreiten, entsteht gleichzeitig eine aktive Gegenbewegung. Denn das Versprechen tausender neuer Arbeitsplätze dank neuer Rechenzentren sowie die Nachhaltigkeitsbestrebungen der Tech-Unternehmen erweisen sich als Luftschlösser. Deswegen dokumentieren immer mehr lokale Initiativen und Journalist*innen die negativen Auswirkungen dieser Anlagen auf ihre Region und ihren gigantischen Ressourcenverbrauch. In dieser Fishbowl-Diskussion bieten wir Raum für den Austausch über Chancen und Herausforderungen in der Recherche zu Rechenzentren sowie im Engagement dagegen. Erste Inputs geben: Sarah-Indra Jungblut – freie Redakteurin mit Fokus auf der Schnittstelle Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung, Leitung Redaktion Dr. Werner Neumann – Vorstandsmitglied und Sprecher des Arbeitskreises Energie beim BUND Landesverband Hessen Dr. Julian Bothe – Senior Policy Manager für KI, Klimaschutz und Nachhaltigkeit bei AlgorithmWatch Moderation: Kira Mössinger – Senior Campaigns Managerin, AlgorithmWatch Im Anschluss an die Diskussion stellt AlgorithmWatch einen kürzlich veröffentlichten Leitfaden vor, mit dem sich Initiativen informieren und möglichen negativen Auswirkungen geplanter Rechenzentren in ihrer Region entgegenwirken können. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/WTVSMX/ Seminar room 3 Kira Mössinger, AlgorithmWatch PUBLISH XNDGPC@@programm.infraunited.org -XNDGPC Generative KI + Fossiles Gas + CCS = Klimakatastrophe de de 20260411T110000 20260411T120000 1.00000 Generative KI + Fossiles Gas + CCS = Klimakatastrophe Obwohl die negativen Klimaauswirkungen generativer KI immer deutlicher werden, sollen in ganz Europa Großrechenzentren gebaut und Deutschland „KI-Nation“ werden, was "ungeahnte Wirtschaftskräfte freisetzen soll“ – zumindest, wenn es nach der Bundesregierung geht. Der Ausbau der Recheninfrastruktur für generative KI benötigt viel Energie, Wasser und Ressourcen, was global zu Umweltschäden führt. Prognosen für die EU und Deutschland zeigen, dass der Energieverbrauch so groß werden könnte, dass der Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien nicht mithalten kann. Oder die für die Verstromung von Verkehr, Wärme und Industrie wichtige saubere Energie würde stattdessen Rechenzentren betreiben. Die fossile Industrie steht deswegen bereit samt ihrem leeren, aber extrem teuren Dekarbonisierungs-Versprechen CCS. Der Hype um generative KI liefert ihnen gerade die perfekte Begründung für den Ausbau ihrer unnötigen fossilen Infrastruktur - mitten in der eskalierenden Klimakrise. Und Big Tech springt auf. Sowohl Fossil- als auch Techkonzerne investieren massiv in neue Gaskraftwerke für energiehungrige Rechenzentren - und propagieren gleichzeitig den Ausbau von CCS-Infrastruktur. Mit dieser schlecht funktionierenden Pseudotechnologie, soll CO2 abgezweigt und in der Erde verpresst werden. Das Risiko von Lecks ist egal, Hauptsache die fossile Energie hat neue Absatzmärkte gefunden. Dabei ist der wirtschaftliche Nutzen durch generative KI unklar. Klar ist: Wir erleben derzeit eine fossile Gegenoffensi PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/XNDGPC/ Seminar room 3 Moritz, urgewald Marie-Luise Abshagen PUBLISH KAJAV9@@programm.infraunited.org -KAJAV9 OUR BODIES - OUR DATA - OUR CHOICE: Everybodys Future en en 20260411T140000 20260411T143000 0.03000 OUR BODIES - OUR DATA - OUR CHOICE: Everybodys Future To "keep the Internet clean" is the structural factor where racism, capitalism and patriarchy meet. This talk is about the situation of clickworkers in Uganda and Kenya: black women who "keep clean" the white male Internet of the big-tech-industry. Struggling against direct and structural violence/exploitation the women organized and practised resistance. Joanita Najjuko from the afri-fem-/Nawi-network will give us a insights into the current situation of clickworkers and thereafter develop options for practical solidarity in the struggle against the big-tech-industry. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KAJAV9/ Seminar room 3 emski PUBLISH 7N8UFU@@programm.infraunited.org -7N8UFU Technologie und Gender: Strategien für eine feministische Zukunft! de de 20260411T143000 20260411T153000 1.00000 Technologie und Gender: Strategien für eine feministische Zukunft! Wir beginnen mit einer kurzen Einführung in die geschlechtsspezifischen Aspekte der Technologienutzung und der Strukturen, die Big Tech prägen. Dabei wird deutlich, dass der Einsatz von Technologie sowohl auf individueller Ebene als auch in Gemeinschaften Auswirkungen hat und häufig Diskriminierungen verstärkt. Ziel ist es, die Relevanz feministischer Perspektiven innerhalb der Technologiediskussion zu verdeutlichen. Im Zentrum des Workshops steht die Fähigkeit, die Themen geschlechtsspezifisch zu betrachten. Die Teilnehmenden lernen, wie sie geschlechtsspezifische Diskriminierungen in Technologien erkennen und benennen können. Darüber hinaus werden wir Alternativen zu Big Tech diskutieren und gemeinsam strategische Ansätze entwickeln, um effektive Lösungen umzusetzen. Wir betonen die Relevanz von individuellen Maßnahmen und beleuchten die Grenzen im Hinblick auf die Strukturebene. Es ist unerlässlich, dass wir unsere Stimmen auf Bundes- und Landesebene erheben und klare Forderungen stellen. In einem interaktiven Brainstorming-Teil laden wir die Teilnehmenden ein, eigene Ideen zu entwickeln und zu visualisieren, wie wir sowohl auf individueller als auch auf politischer Ebene aktiv werden können. Dieser Workshop bietet ein offenes und unterstützendes Umfeld für Austausch und Diskussion, mit dem Ziel, die Teilnehmenden zu befähigen, sich für geschlechtergerechte Lösungen in der Technologiewelt einzusetzen. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/7N8UFU/ Seminar room 3 Carla (Queere FeTe) Emma Kathe PUBLISH C7QKYK@@programm.infraunited.org -C7QKYK De-Urbanising Health: Tech Libertarianism and Biotechnological Experimentation on Roatán Island de de 20260411T181500 20260411T183000 0.01500 De-Urbanising Health: Tech Libertarianism and Biotechnological Experimentation on Roatán Island Drawing on journalistic investigations of multiple biotech initiatives on the island, with particular attention to the Vitalia project—a privately governed enclave dedicated to life-extension technologies and so-called “longevity science”—the talk shows how, within capitalist-libertarian imaginaries of tax havens and deregulated innovation hubs, Roatán is framed as a “tropical haven” for biotech elites. At the same time, local populations experience land dispossession, environmental strain, and systematic exclusion from decision-making processes and spatial formation, as governance and citizenship are spatialised through enclaves, exceptionality, and privatisation. Situating Roatán within broader debates and ideologies on health, technology, and urbanisation, the central argument revolves around how health is profoundly distorted: separated from everyday well-being, care, and public accountability, and redirected toward speculative futures of enhancement for a privileged few—confined within a small enclave imagined for an ‘Übermensch.’ In this context, both health and citizenship are reconstituted through venture capital logics and biotechnological ideologies. I argue that Roatán thus functions as an anti-urban laboratory: a process of de-urbanisation in which experimental health regimes rely on spatial enclosure, regulatory exceptionalism, and the deliberate disembedding of health from existing urban and social entanglements, while bypassing care infrastructure. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/C7QKYK/ Seminar room 3 Niloufar Vadiati PUBLISH 3UYYDZ@@programm.infraunited.org -3UYYDZ Tech X Environmental Justice – Unpacking the Hidden Cost of Innovation en en 20260411T100000 20260411T113000 1.03000 Tech X Environmental Justice – Unpacking the Hidden Cost of Innovation This workshop creates a collaborative space where we can pool knowledge, challenge assumptions, and co‑develop fresh perspectives on how technology impacts environmental justice, with a special focus on AI. We’ll kick off with a 30‑minute deep dive into the life cycle of technologies, from resource extraction and production to distribution, usage, and end-of-life disposal. Along the way we’ll critically examine the environmental, social and structural costs, as well as the re-tracing of colonial lines embedded in each stage. Using the factual input and real-world examples, we will move into interactive group work. There we will apply an environmental justice lens to assess how technologies intersect with various axes of justice and identify key patterns, challenges, and opportunities. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Long workshop https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/3UYYDZ/ Seminar room 7 B PUBLISH LYFVDH@@programm.infraunited.org -LYFVDH compost.party - permacomputing and feminist infrastructure from scraps en en 20260411T133000 20260411T143000 1.00000 compost.party - permacomputing and feminist infrastructure from scraps The rate at which hardware and software are produced and discarded is dizzying. People in the EU alone throws produce 5 million tonnes of e-waste annually. But as if planned obsolescence breaking devices physically wasn't annoying enough: Requirements change, compatibility is broken, and completely functional devices are rendered barely usable after increasingly short lifespans. What about the work done to mine the minerals? What about the waste, what about the emissions? It's easiest not to worry about it, to just go for the vibes of infinite cloud auto-scaling and sparkling AI buttons. But what could it look like to take these externalities seriously? What would a computing look like that tries to keep things running instead of moving fast and breaking things? compost.party is a web server that's pieced together from scraps, a broken phone just shy of being thrown away and a camping solar panel no longer needed by friends. It runs on solar energy alone and reuses existing infrastructure – a residential internet connection and the mobile celltower network – to host zines and personal web pages for free. It goes offline when the sun is gone and its battery is running out, and comes back when the sun does. In this workshop we want to share knowledge about the setup, share the skills to do something similar, talk about how this all relates to permacomputing and caring, and offer spots to host personal pages and experiments on compost.party to those interested. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/LYFVDH/ Seminar room 7 arne Malte PUBLISH CQEFDQ@@programm.infraunited.org -CQEFDQ Fighting for Labor Rights in AI Data Work en en 20260411T163000 20260411T164500 0.01500 Fighting for Labor Rights in AI Data Work This talk presents research findings as impulses for strategic discussions building on participative research, led by data workers from around the globe. Highlighting, on the one hand, the continuities between data work and other forms of labor and the role of previous acomplishments embodied by international labor rights conventions in fighting the deepening of exploitation. On the other hand, it disentangles specific challenges faced by data workers and relates their specific concerns and challenges to the need to fight for appropriate protections. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/CQEFDQ/ Seminar room 7 Camilla Salim Wagner PUBLISH D9C7KY@@programm.infraunited.org -D9C7KY Worker-Owned Tech: Lessons from Latin America en en 20260411T170000 20260411T173000 0.03000 Worker-Owned Tech: Lessons from Latin America The dominant digital debate is often shaped by “tech bro” imaginaries and practices. However, long-standing Latin American traditions of solidarity economy and community tech offer alternative paths. This talk shares the collective journey of the Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP) project, which brought together tech and delivery workers from Argentina and Brazil as co-researchers. Participating organizations include Alternativa Laboral Trans, the Argentine Federation of Tech Cooperatives, the Tech Sector of Brazil’s Homeless Workers’ Movement and Señoritas Courier. Rather than promoting idealized models of platform cooperativism, the talk highlights how worker collectives are confronting concrete political, technical, and organizational challenges. It discusses the differences between Argentina’s institutionalized cooperative tradition and Brazil’s strengths in political mobilization; how intersectional frameworks are translated into tech development and labor organizing; and how concepts such as digital sovereignty and trans technologies are enacted within organizations. The session also explores principles such as intercooperation and “care before code” as foundations for worker-led tech governance. The talk concludes with policy recommendations for fostering a global ecosystem of worker-led technologies. These experiences show us how technologies can be governed from below, even amid ongoing dependencies on Big Tech infrastructures. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/D9C7KY/ Seminar room 7 Rafael Grohmann PUBLISH E78PGE@@programm.infraunited.org -E78PGE Lowtec & diy - aktivistisches Radio de de 20260411T173000 20260411T183000 1.00000 Lowtec & diy - aktivistisches Radio Was, wenn Hunderte oder Tausende Menschen an Eurer Demo oder eurer Besetzung teilhaben können, obwohl sie gar nicht vor Ort sind - und das ganz ohne Youtube, Tiktok, Facebook? Wir haben in den letzten Jahren Demos begleitet, Aktivistis interviewt und den Soundtrack dazu geliefert und zwar mit einem mobilen Radio, installiert auf einem Lastenrad. Dabei haben wir einiges an Erfahrung gesammelt. Dieser hands-on-Workshop liefert euch einen Baukasten an inhaltlichen Formaten, ihr erfahrt, welche technischen Komponenten ihr braucht, welche Aufgabenverteilung Sinn macht und was ihr sonst noch beachten solltet. Und natürlich gibts auch die Möglichkeit, live vor Ort auszuprobieren, wie das alles geht. Wer wir sind: Arrr! Radio sieht sich in einer Traditionslinie des angeeigneten und subversiv angewendeten Radios von unten, lokal und unprofessionell. Wir sind inhaltlich nicht festgelegt und haben an verschiedensten Stellen mitgemischt - klimapolitisch, stadtpolitisch, antikapitalistisch. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/E78PGE/ Seminar room 7 Mischko Hilke PUBLISH SNMCSG@@programm.infraunited.org -SNMCSG Tesla stoppen de de 20260411T100000 20260411T110000 1.00000 Tesla stoppen Joschi Wolf is a photojournalist, education advisor and environmental engineer and have been active in the environmental and climate justice movement for over ten years. Joschi did exhibtions about Lützerath, the resistance against Tesla, Lithium and is documenting forest occupations and protests in Berlin. Joschi Wolf ist Fotojournalist, Bildungsberater und Umweltingenieur und seit über zehn Jahren in der Umwelt- und Klimagerechtigkeitsbewegung aktiv. Joschi hat Ausstellungen über Lützerath, den Widerstand gegen Tesla und Lithium gemacht und dokumentiert Waldbesetzungen und Proteste in Berlin. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/SNMCSG/ Other Joschi PUBLISH KTUDUQ@@programm.infraunited.org -KTUDUQ Kritische “KI”-Stadtführung de de 20260411T190000 20260411T203000 1.03000 Kritische “KI”-Stadtführung Wir spazieren zusammen vom Ostbahnhof entlang der Berliner Mauer, über den Uber Platz, bis hin zum sogenannten Amazon Tower. Mit spielerisch-räumlichen Vermittlungsformaten behandeln wir dabei den Einfluss des gegenwärtigen Marketing-Hypes rund um “KI” auf Stadtpolitik und -leben. Was sind die konkreten Auswirkungen von (“KI”-gestützten) Überwachungstechnologien im städtischen Raum und an den EU-Außengrenzen, auf das soziale Gefüge der Stadt? Und was haben “KI”-generierte Abbilder der Stadt mit architektonischen Homogenisierungstendenzen, Gentrifizierungsprozessen und der kollektiven Imagination von urbanen Lebensweisen zu tun? Treffpunkt ist die Wimmelbahn in der Eingangshalle des Ostbahnhofs. Die Stadtführung ist rollstuhlgerecht. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Long workshop https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KTUDUQ/ Other Hubi & Sarah Deleted User PUBLISH V87KR7@@programm.infraunited.org -V87KR7 Investigative Recherchetechnik "gleiche Wörter" de de 20260411T210000 20260411T211500 0.01500 Investigative Recherchetechnik "gleiche Wörter" PUBLIC CONFIRMED Lightning Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/V87KR7/ Other Jens Sommer, Schrannes Hader, Nein B. Karon PUBLISH KTZWTR@@programm.infraunited.org -KTZWTR Arts Space (Saturday) de de 20260411T100000 20260411T200000 10.00000 Arts Space (Saturday) Art Pieces at Arts Space in Lause (Lausitzer Straße 10) Jack Conwell, Daniel Donocan-Achi, Selin Bekcekaral // Memento Mori // Mixed Media Game Giacomo Nanni // Mechanical Turk // Video Conny Es Said // Why this result // AI-Painting on Canvas Navid Razavi // Algorithmic Gaze // Sound & Video Sarah Fitterer, Dominik Gangl // Apoteche // Mixed Media Installation Federico Poni // Invisible Work // Blue Tooth tracking Jo Tiffe // baised creatures // Mixed Media Installation Kathrin Hunze // Training your Best Friend // Mixed Media Installation Helena Nikolone // off grid wearables // Video to the Work at FMP1 Ginevra Petrozzi // POV: Time to Influence Your Targeted Ads // Video Art Pieces at FMP1 (conference venue, Franz Mehring Platz 1) Kathrin Hunze // Datahorse // Video Helena Nikonole with 868.net // off grid devices Maria Kaminska, Ben Christ, Fernanda Braun Santos // Sicherheit neu denken // Videos & Poster rainbow pill collective // entering the manosphere // Mixed Media Installation Joschi // Tesla Stoppen // Photos reincantamento // Online-Archive Berlin Luddites // Cables of Resistance Digest // Offline Archive PUBLIC CONFIRMED Art Installation https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KTZWTR/ Lause (arts space) Art Space Lause 10 PUBLISH CGN7DE@@programm.infraunited.org -CGN7DE Big Tech Violence oder Military Big Tech de de 20260412T100000 20260412T110000 1.00000 Big Tech Violence oder Military Big Tech PUBLIC CONFIRMED Panel https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/CGN7DE/ Münzenbergsaal Cable Resist mal Kerstin (Rheinmetall Entwaffnen) Antony Löwenstein PUBLISH XGRLHA@@programm.infraunited.org -XGRLHA Techno-Faschismus im Überblick de de 20260412T110000 20260412T120000 1.00000 Techno-Faschismus im Überblick **1) Interventionistische Linke: Indienstnahme neuester Technologien für eine Faschisierung** Was ist das derzeitige Analogon zur DeHoMag/IBM Lochkarte im NS-Faschismus? Welche Transformationsprozesse sind in Regierungsadministration mit Rückgriff auf (generative) KI erkennbar? Worin liegt die Zuspitzung durch die ultrarechten ideologischen Background der heutigen BigTech-Protagonisten beim technokratischen Umbau, der damit weit über das zur Verfühungsstellen von vermeintlich neutralen Werkzeugen hinausgeht. Ist die Anrufung aggressiver, patriarchaler Technokratie– und Fortschritsgläubigkeit mit dem italienischen Futurismus und dessen Funktion für den italienischen Faschismus vergleichbar? **2) Lia Becker: Rechter Kampf gegen 'Gender-Ideologie' und Trans-Rechte – Antifeminismus als Bewegungskitt einer hochgradig inhomogenen rechten Bewegung** – Faschisierung aus der Mitte der Gesellschaft heraus. Reicht unser Blick auf den rechten Rand, oder erfasst unser Antifaschismus eine wesentliche Dynamik der Faschisierung nicht ? – Transregister und digitale Sichtbarkeit von Identität mit Bezug zur Rosa Liste in der Weimarer Republik **3) capulcu: Krise der Wahrheit als Teil der Faschisierung** – Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion von Wahrheiten und ihr Wirklichkeitsbezug – Postfaktische Zersetzung politischer Öffentlichkeit – Warum "Fake as fake can" (linkes Bullshitting) keine Gegenstrategie gegen mediale rechte Dominanz ist. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/XGRLHA/ Münzenbergsaal gast PUBLISH 37MJS8@@programm.infraunited.org -37MJS8 Cables Of Hope - Digitale Plattformen vergesellschaften statt Gegenwart reformieren de de 20260412T133000 20260412T140000 0.03000 Cables Of Hope - Digitale Plattformen vergesellschaften statt Gegenwart reformieren Digitale Plattformen kontrollieren immer mehr Bereiche unseres Lebens. Wir interagieren täglich mit ihnen, wenn wir Konzerttickets suchen (eventim), gebrauchte Sachen weiterverkaufen (Kleinanzeigen), interagieren (TikTok), einen Arzttermin buchen (doctolib), eine neue Wohnung suchen (Immoscout24) oder Videos schauen (Youtube). Plattformen produzieren nicht mehr selbst, sie bereichern sich über Erlösanteile an den Profiten derer, die auf den Plattformen agieren. Plattformen sind damit eine der greifbarsten Manifestationen des digitalen Kapitalismus unserer Zeit. Und sie entziehen sich einer demokratischen Kontrolle. Die klassischen Antworten darauf greifen zu kurz. Regulierung, Besteuerung oder Open-Source-Alternativen packen das Problem nicht an der Wurzel. Eine nachhaltige Demokratisierung der Plattformen ist nötig und den Weg dahin haben Kampagnen wie "Deutsche Wohnungen & Co Enteignen" vorgemacht. Die Plattformen und ihre digitale Kontrolle über die Güter und Dienstleistungen unseres Alltags müssen vergesellschaftet und unter demokratischer Kontrolle in den Dienst des Gemeinwohls gestellt werden. Der Talk möchte ermutigen, digitale Plattformen nicht nur radikal demokratisch und abseits des digitalkapitalistischen Status Quo zu denken, sondern sich diese gesellschaftliche Kontrolle auch ganz praktisch wieder anzueignen. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/37MJS8/ Münzenbergsaal Malte Engeler Aline Blankertz PUBLISH DBCLWD@@programm.infraunited.org -DBCLWD Eigentümlich anti-sozial? Alternativen zum rechtslibertären Tech-Faschismus de de 20260412T140000 20260412T143000 0.03000 Eigentümlich anti-sozial? Alternativen zum rechtslibertären Tech-Faschismus Die Entwicklungen im Technologie-Sektor, das Privateigentum über dessen Produktionsmittel und die Ideologie der superreichen Tech-Bros führen zu nie dagewesener Ausbeutung, Unterdrückung, Entfremdung und Zerstörung. Durch internetgestützte Technologie werden Menschen ökonomisch, affektiv und emotional abhängig und gefügig gemacht, wobei ihnen diese Selbstunterwerfung als Freiheit verkauft wird. Das sich der gesamtgesellschaftliche Einfluss der Big-Tech-Unternehmen derart ausweiten konnte verdankt sich in ideologischer Hinsicht einem autoritären Liberalismus. Dieser weist eine Kontinuität vom „klassischen Liberalismus“, über den Neoliberalismus und Rechtslibertarianismus hin zum sogenannten Anarchokapitalismus auf. Insbesondere mit der aggressiven Durchsetzung von KI-gestützten Systemen ist sogar die Ambition einer mentalen Kontrolle als Vorstufe zur transhumanistischen Verschmelzung von Mensch und Maschine verknüpft. Wie sehen dagegen anarchistische Umgangsweisen mit Technologie aus? Wie kann ein Technologie-skeptischer Ansatz entwickelt werden, ohne in konservative Abwehrreflexe zu verfallen? Inwiefern können unter anderem Autonomie, Selbstbestimmung, Selbstorganisation als Leitprinzipien fungieren, um zumindest eine alternative Zukunft zu skizzieren? Im Vortrag werden Kernpunkte der Bestrebungen der Tech-Unternehmer zusammengefasst. Dabei ist es wichtig, die Ideologie der Rechtslibertären zu verstehen. Dagegen werden aus der anarchistischen Tradition Ansatzpunkte skizziert, PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/DBCLWD/ Münzenbergsaal Jonathan PUBLISH UY9PCL@@programm.infraunited.org -UY9PCL Forum: Strategy & Organizing de de 20260412T143000 20260412T153000 1.00000 Forum: Strategy & Organizing PUBLIC CONFIRMED Panel https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/UY9PCL/ Münzenbergsaal Cable Resist PUBLISH PWRT9A@@programm.infraunited.org -PWRT9A Closing Session de de 20260412T160000 20260412T163000 0.03000 Closing Session PUBLIC CONFIRMED Keynote https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/PWRT9A/ Münzenbergsaal Cable Resist PUBLISH VJYLJW@@programm.infraunited.org -VJYLJW Big Tech made in Germany? Formierung eines nationalen Tech-Narrativs de de 20260412T100000 20260412T103000 0.03000 Big Tech made in Germany? Formierung eines nationalen Tech-Narrativs Amazon, Google, Meta, Tesla, Palantir und Co – wenn Kritik an Techkonzernen geäußert wird, stehen meist die US-Riesen im Fokus. Doch wie sieht es eigentlich in Deutschland aus? Als Reaktion auf die Entwicklungen in den USA und die damit einhergehende Faschisierung wird in der EU und in Deutschland unter dem Label digitaler Souveränität massiv in digitale Infrastrukturprojekte „made in Germany“ investiert: Datenzentren hier, Unternehmensförderung da, Deregulierungen dort. Insbesondere die Digitalsparte der Schwarz-Gruppe positioniert sich wie kaum ein anderes deutsches Unternehmen unter diesem Label. Sie baut Infrastruktur für eine „souveräne“ Cloud, investiert in KI-Entwicklung, finanziert Professuren im Bereich KI und betreibt einen eigenen Bildungscampus. Damit nimmt die Schwarz-Gruppe direkten Einfluss auf KI-Entwicklung, Wissenschaft und Bildung und ruft dabei eine spezifische nationale (digitale) Identität an. Wie kann eine Kritik aussehen, die darauf reagiert, wie Digitalprojekte in Deutschland politisch legitimiert, vermarktet und gesellschaftlich verankert werden? Worin unterscheiden sie sich von Strategien in den USA? Und was bedeutet das für soziale Bewegungen? Dabei stellt sich die Aufgabe, lokale politische Praxis zu entwickeln, die zugleich den transnationalen Zusammenhang im Blick behält. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VJYLJW/ Salon Anna PUBLISH KXJ3YK@@programm.infraunited.org -KXJ3YK Techno-Faschismus - Damals und Heute de de 20260412T103000 20260412T110000 0.03000 Techno-Faschismus - Damals und Heute Seit sich die Tech-Industrie hinter Donald Trump versammelt hat, macht das Schlagwort Techno-Faschismus die Runde. Dabei sind Bezüge zum Bündnis von Nationalsozialismus und Industrie zu Recht eine wichtige Deutungsfolie. Meist ist die Bezugnahme aber eher skandalisierend als analytisch. Die jahrzehntelangen Debatten über das Verhältnis von Wirtschaft, Technologie und Nationalsozialismus werden nur selektiv aufgegriffen. Das ist schade, denn dort ist ein reichhaltiger Vorrat von Konzepten und Erfahrungen versteckt, die lehrreich für den Umgang mit dem heutigen Techno-Faschismus sind. Der Vortrag versucht diese Potentiale auszugraben. Er setzt am Phänomen Techno-Faschismus an und kontextualisiert dieses vor dem Hintergrund der Debatte über den Zusammenhang von Wirtschaft und NS. Der Vortrag gibt einen Überblick über verschiedene Arten und Weisen wie das Verhältnis von Bourgeioisie und Nationalsozialismus betrachtet wurde. Dabei wird in zentrale Konzepte und Denkfiguren eingeführt: Dimitroff-Formel, Bonapartismustheorie und Primat-Debatte. Futurismus, Reaktionärer Modernismus und Fordismus. Dabei wird ein Fokus auf Rolle und Funktion von Hoch-Technologie & Innovation gelegt etwa die Treibstoffsynthese der IG Farben oder Flugzeugmotoren der BMW. Darauf aufbauend werden Perspektiven des Widerstands beleuchtet - damals und heute. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KXJ3YK/ Salon Fred Heussner PUBLISH 8EVU77@@programm.infraunited.org -8EVU77 Gewalt? Geteilt! de de 20260412T110000 20260412T113000 0.03000 Gewalt? Geteilt! Überlebende von Gewalt und Flucht verlangen Gerechtigkeit von Meta. Der Talk zeigt, wie Facebook zur Infrastruktur von Gewalt in bewaffneten Konflikten wurde, und stellt juristische Gegenwehr aus dem globalen Süden vor. In den Monaten vor der Vertreibung der Rohingya ließ Facebook massenhaft Gewaltaufrufe von militärnahen Akteuren auf der Plattform zu. Der Rohingya-Aktivist Maung Sawyeddollah verklagte Meta auf Entschädigung. Doch statt der eigenen Verantwortung gerecht zu werden, machen Metas neue Content Policys es nun noch leichter, Hass zu verbreiten. Mit Amnesty International und anderen Organisationen hat Sawyeddollah daraufhin eine Whistleblower-Beschwerde gegen Meta in den USA eingereicht. Auch während des bewaffneten Konflikts in Tigray, Äthiopien, kursierten auf Facebook unzählige Gewaltaufrufe. Meta ergriff erneut keine Gegenmaßnahmen, während seine Algorithmen polarisierende Inhalte verstärkten. Amnesty Internationals Researcher Fisseha Tekle wurde wegen seiner Menschenrechtsarbeit auf Facebook so massiv bedroht, dass er das Land verlassen musste, der Vater von Abrham Meareg ermordet. Mit einer Klage erreichten die beiden 2025 einen Durchbruch: Obwohl Meta argumentierte, es könne nur in den USA verklagt werden – was Kläger*innen aus dem globalen Süden massiv benachteiligen würde – entschied ein kenianisches Gericht, ihre Klage anzunehmen. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/8EVU77/ Salon Lena Rohrbach PUBLISH 7WR33J@@programm.infraunited.org -7WR33J Mit Hochtechnologie gegen Migration de de 20260412T113000 20260412T120000 0.03000 Mit Hochtechnologie gegen Migration Die EU-Grenzagentur Frontex baut ihre Überwachungsfähigkeiten zu einem mehrschichtigen System aus Satelliten, Drohnen und hochfliegenden Plattformen aus. So sollen Land- und Seegrenzen nahezu nahtlos beobachtet werden. Die zwei israelischen Langstreckendrohnen Heron 1, die Airbus aus Bremen im Auftrag von Frontex betreibt, sind mit elektrooptischen und Wärmebildkameras sowie Technik zur Ortung von Mobil- und Satellitentelefonen ausgestattet - mitgeführte Telefone von Schutzsuchenden werden damit faktisch zu einem Ortungssender, dessen Signale in das europäische Grenzüberwachungssystem EUROSUR einfließen. Parallel dazu greift Frontex auf Satelliten zu, die nicht nur optische und Radarbilder liefern, sondern ebenfalls Funk- und Telefonsignale aus dem All geolokalisieren und so die Lageerfassung ergänzen. Neu ist, dass die Agentur sogenannte „Leichter-als-Luft“-Plattformen in der Stratosphäre erprobt, die über Monate in 18 bis 22 Kilometern Höhe über einem Gebiet verbleiben und damit aus Sicht der EU-Grenztruppen eine bisherige Überwachungslücke zwischen Drohnen und Satelliten schließen sollen. Viele dieser neuartigen Techniken wurden ursprünglich fürs Militär entwickelt. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/7WR33J/ Salon Matthias Monroy PUBLISH 9RCMUT@@programm.infraunited.org -9RCMUT Tech & Degrowth: imagining the small tech we want en en 20260412T133000 20260412T140000 0.03000 Tech & Degrowth: imagining the small tech we want We know that Big Tech is not the kind of technology we want or need. So how do we imagine something better? What should digital technology look like if it were designed to serve human needs rather than endless growth and profits? This talk introduces degrowth as a useful lens for rethinking digital technology. Degrowth calls for a democratically planned reduction of production and consumption in wealthy countries, so that economic activity stays within planetary boundaries while meeting people’s needs. It proposes three fundamental rules to restructure the economy: respecting planetary boundaries, ensuring a fair and democratic allocation of resources, and meeting human needs. Taking these principles seriously implies a deep transformation of our economic system, and therefore of how digital technologies are owned, governed, financed, and built. The talk sketches key pathways for a degrowth-aligned digital tech space and points to existing alternatives and concrete examples that show these ideas are already being tested in practice. This talk is proposed by Sebastian Uribe and Aureliane Froehlich. We are active members of the International Degrowth Network, with an interest in supporting alternative models for the digital economy. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/9RCMUT/ Salon Aureliane Froehlich Sebastián Uribe PUBLISH 3NVSDW@@programm.infraunited.org -3NVSDW Struggling against AI’s augmented exploitation and control: pathways and pitfalls en en 20260412T140000 20260412T143000 0.03000 Struggling against AI’s augmented exploitation and control: pathways and pitfalls Each path to contesting AI appears to be accompanied by its own pitfalls, ready and waiting to obstruct our attempts to struggle for a world without AI and the harms it is producing. Acts of resistance and escape risk leaving in place the systemic drive for AI to grow and expand across all aspects of society, merely fending off the inevitable, perhaps for just a short period of time. The pursuit of anti-AI objectives through the state - either taming AI, or dismantling it altogether - are themselves at risk of embracing the somewhat naive hope that perhaps the capitalist state might save us. Yet, whilst there are undoubtedly limitations on our ability to struggle against AI, history nevertheless tells us that without struggle the introduction of this next capitalist technology of exploitation and control will be worse than it would be otherwise; and, anyway, and perhaps reassuringly, there is no possibility of a capitalism without opposition. The anti-AI struggle continues. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/3NVSDW/ Salon Masoumeh Iran Mansouri PUBLISH QZPQGD@@programm.infraunited.org -QZPQGD Know your enemy: Sex and Violence within the Machinery of Techno-Fascism en en 20260412T100000 20260412T103000 0.03000 Know your enemy: Sex and Violence within the Machinery of Techno-Fascism What kind of fascism are we facing today, and how do technology corporations enable its emergence? Rather than treating fascism as a historical recurrence or purely ideological formation, the talk examines it as a contemporary system of power operating through technology, desire, and militarized visions of the future. Focusing on the shift within Silicon Valley toward close cooperation with government and military institutions, it analyzes the mindset change that renders this alliance rational and desirable. Narratives of stagnation, existential threat, and Western decline frame technological acceleration and security infrastructures as moral imperatives, while liberal democracy is demonised as obstacle. Drawing on D. Herzog’s Sex after Fascism, the body is framed as a key political site where sexuality and reproduction are strategically mobilized as tools of fascist governance. Building on this, the text examines a new fascist body shaped by artificial intimacy, reproductive technologies, binary tropes, and platform-driven desire economies. Techno-fascism operates through the construction of narratives, producing tropes and myths of friend and enemy that organize protection and belonging, with sex and violence functioning as central instruments. 
The talk frames techno-fascism as an affective technological regime - governing through our wants, fears, and desires - and proposes strategies for rethinking resistance and (self-)defense PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QZPQGD/ Seminar room 1 Janne Kummer PUBLISH SR8K8Q@@programm.infraunited.org -SR8K8Q 5 theses on techno-authoritarianism en en 20260412T103000 20260412T110000 0.03000 5 theses on techno-authoritarianism Techno-authoritarianism is not merely as a contingent alliance between Big Tech corporations and specific political actors, but an objective process of convergence between two distinct political logics: the platform-driven disintermediation of social reproduction and the progressive centralization of political decision-making within liberal democratic regimes. Platforms operate through pervasive data extraction and algorithmic management of social cooperation, producing an organizational paradigm that is simultaneously diffuse and centralized, rhizomatic and panoptic. By penetrating social reproduction directly, platforms disintermediate traditional mediating institutions while actively shaping subjects and behaviors. In parallel, liberal democracies are undergoing an internal erosion. Originally structured as systems of mediation among social interests through distributed powers, they are increasingly characterized by the concentration of decision-making within the executive. This long-term process - visible in technocratic governments, populist moments, and the current rise of neo- and post-fascist forces - is rooted in stagnant accumulation and capital concentration. The convergence of these dynamics is further accelerated by a global war regime understood as the reorganization of societies around war as a political-economic paradigm, increasingly mediated by digital technologies. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/SR8K8Q/ Seminar room 1 Maurilio Pirone PUBLISH TFV9YX@@programm.infraunited.org -TFV9YX Automated war-crimes powered by Amazon and the resistance against it en en 20260412T110000 20260412T120000 1.00000 Automated war-crimes powered by Amazon and the resistance against it PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/TFV9YX/ Seminar room 1 Rainer Rehak Abbas PUBLISH TBECPH@@programm.infraunited.org -TBECPH Building Backwards: Lessons from an Alternative History of the Web en en 20260412T133000 20260412T140000 0.03000 Building Backwards: Lessons from an Alternative History of the Web Our talk presents an imaginary alternative timeline of technological and political history, one in which Big Tech conglomerates do not exist due to certain laws and policies in place and the collective actions of citizens.  In the year 2006, web technology was in a nascent and transitional period.  Google had newly become the dominant search engine by providing a good user experience and delivering relevant results. Amazon was primarily known as an online bookstore that had expanded into other retail categories. Facebook had not IPO-ed and was a popular service that felt private and personal and mainly for connecting with people you already knew. The experience was much less commercialized and algorithm-driven. In the collective conscious was a sense of optimism and possibility during this so-called Web 2.0 era. A group of activists who were afraid of history repeating itself via a pattern of hyper-growth at all cost (e.g. railroad and telegraph monopolies, commercialization of radio and television) organized and fought for regulations that would ensure that the Internet would not follow the same fate. They wanted to ensure that policymakers and technologists had the same commitment to public interest and that services were not dictated mainly by profits and advertiser interests. In this alternate timeline, policies and technological systems regarding education, labor, climate, social discourses look very different from the landscape we live in today. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/TBECPH/ Seminar room 1 Daisy Sarah PUBLISH QWQAPS@@programm.infraunited.org -QWQAPS A Study of BraziliansTechnopolitical Collectives and the Construction of Autonomous Infrastructures and Digital Alternatives en en 20260412T140000 20260412T143000 0.03000 A Study of BraziliansTechnopolitical Collectives and the Construction of Autonomous Infrastructures and Digital Alternatives This conversation explores the relationship between data capitalism, epistemologies of the commons, and emerging sociotechnical alternatives in Latin America, with a particular focus on technopolitical collectives that build autonomous digital infrastructures. It begins with a critical analysis of the rise of data capitalism and its social implications, investigating how different forms of knowledge and practice are articulated around the notion of the “commons”, contesting the directions of contemporary technologies. The study highlights the centrality of territory, cooperation, and situated knowledge in shaping technopolitical alternatives in the region. By incorporating insights from feminist science and technology studies, the research reveals how collectives such as MariaLab, with initiatives like Vedetas and Maria Vilani, the MTST Technology Center , with projects such as Contrate Quem Luta and the App da Vitória , and Señoritas Courier, with its bicycle delivery application — are reconfiguring the technological field by introducing practices of care, holistic security, and digital sovereignty. Grounded in an ethnographic approach, the dissertation connects theoretical debates and concrete experiences, demonstrating the multiple ways in which these organizations formulate critical and creative responses to the dynamics of surveillance, exclusion, and the concentration of power that characterize the digital age. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QWQAPS/ Seminar room 1 Maraiza Adami PUBLISH YCKDCU@@programm.infraunited.org -YCKDCU The AI/Energy/Fascism Nexus: An Anatomy of an Alliance en en 20260412T100000 20260412T103000 0.03000 The AI/Energy/Fascism Nexus: An Anatomy of an Alliance This talk will cover recent shifts in the political economy and business strategies of the US tech sector, tracing how the 'AI arms race' and the investment conditions leading up to it have fostered a mutual alliance between large ICT companies, fossil fuel energy interests, and the far-right. With an emphasis on accessibility and anti-capitalist critique, the aim will be to better understand how the pursuit of profit can lead even the leaders of 'corporate sustainability' into coalitions that are antithetical to climate action. It will argue that the AI/Energy/Fascism nexus is not a temporary, or additive coalition, but one that is instead fundamentally reforming the tech sector's vision for a good society. The talk will end with a few thoughts on what this means for developing theories of 'techno-feudalism' and 'techno-fascism,' when we locate more and more of these tendencies within the political allies of tech companies, rather than (only) within the platforms themselves. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/YCKDCU/ Seminar room 2 Apasek PUBLISH WKDXE3@@programm.infraunited.org -WKDXE3 Conspiring as Resistance: How to Subvert the Really Fake? en en 20260412T103000 20260412T110000 0.03000 Conspiring as Resistance: How to Subvert the Really Fake? This talk explores the rise of far-right communicative fascism through the lens of Really Fake (Shah et al., 2021), a contemporary condition in which truth, fiction, and simulation blur across digital platforms and synthetic media. While their mission is commonly said to be “connecting people,” social media are, by design, atomizing infrastructures driven by virality (and chaos). Through case studies such as Donald Trump’s Truth Social and Giorgia Meloni’s personal storytelling, the talk will examine the mythopoetic role of conspiracy theories and their alternative realities as participatory tools for far-right world-making. But rather than opposing fake with truth, the talk recovers conspiring as a subversion strategy. From its Latin root conspirare, meaning “to breathe together,” conspiring can become a collective methodology of resistance, grounded in proximity, embodiment, and care. Drawing from thinkers like Wendy Chun, Alberto Toscano, and Legacy Russell, the talk crosses media, political, and feminist theory with myths, memes, and internet culture, aiming to explore new strategies for radical speculation and reality-making. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/WKDXE3/ Seminar room 2 Maria Maddalena Lenzi PUBLISH 833Z7B@@programm.infraunited.org -833Z7B Border Profiteers - on the recycling of bare life en en 20260412T110000 20260412T120000 1.00000 Border Profiteers - on the recycling of bare life Displace. Detain. Deport. For Big Tech, this is not a human tragedy—it is a vertically integrated supply chain. This session, grounded in the Border Profiteers research, exposes how the "technocratic-authoritarian" restructuring of society is pioneered at the border. We map the corporate ecosystem where Big Tech, arms manufacturers, and PMSCs converge to turn migration into profit at every stage. Displacement: The same conglomerates fueling climate collapse and supplying weaponry for global conflicts are selling the "solutions" to manage the resulting refugees. We trace how tech firms secure lucrative Frontex contracts for aerial surveillance and drone warfare to intercept those fleeing the very crises these companies helped create. Detention: The "smart border" is built on biometric data, algorithmic profiling, and cloud infrastructure. We analyze how the logic of ICE contracts in the US—where companies like Palantir and Amazon power deportation raids—is replicated in Europe’s digital fortress. Tech giants provide the backbone for the databases that categorize "bare life," while PMSCs use these tools to manage detention centers as logistics hubs. Deportation: From the travel agencies booking charter flights to the security firms escorting prisoners, expulsion is big business. Join us to uncover the "cables" connecting Silicon Valley data centers to the razor wire of Fortress Europe—and to strategize how to cut them. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/833Z7B/ Seminar room 2 hoppi Marley Bharathi Stefan PUBLISH E3EYPD@@programm.infraunited.org -E3EYPD Can We Build Hardware Without Capitalism? en en 20260412T133000 20260412T143000 1.00000 Can We Build Hardware Without Capitalism? The modern semiconductor industry is dependent on minerals from the majority world, fabrication in billion dollar facilities, and labour exploitation. This workshop seeks to break down those harms into their political, technical and physical components, and ask whether hardware can be produced without them or are they inherent to computation as we know it. Some harms are apparent and better understood: planned obsolescence is a business model, labour exploitation is a political and moral choice, and IP regimes are legal constructs. The path to refusing these is somewhat clear. Yet even open hardware still requires the same mines and fabs. These harms are more embedded. Chips require materials that must be extracted and fabrication complexity and cost seems only feasible at scales massive capital enable. Computing as currently conceived may be inseparable from these systems. But what if we started from different premises? Sufficiency over growth, longevity over obsolescence, shared infrastructure over disposable devices? What would we build differently, and what should we give up? This workshop welcomes anyone unwilling to accept technological determinism and solutionism. We particularly encourage those in climate justice, de-colonial work and degrowth who sense hardware is part of the problem and are looking for frameworks for thinking about it. Format: framing presentation (10 min), small-group discussion (50 min), synthesis (30 min). No technical background required. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Long workshop https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/E3EYPD/ Seminar room 2 Terrabyte PUBLISH RG8XNB@@programm.infraunited.org -RG8XNB Understanding the Political Attack by Big Tech and Options for Anti-fascist Alliances en en 20260412T100000 20260412T103000 0.03000 Understanding the Political Attack by Big Tech and Options for Anti-fascist Alliances Looking at the USA, it is obvious that Big Tech is increasingly striving for direct political power, engaging in political activity itself, or quite openly placing political enforcers of its own interests in office. Similar to the media moguls and corporations before it, but with a different approach to the masses and different methods of operation, Big Tech initially played a key role in ideologically preparing the ground for the rise of the new reactionary forces. Now it is openly striving for a new political order. This article will first outline the contours of this new threat by examining various concepts, some very new, others drawing on old theories of fascism and other theories. The aim is not to provide a grand theoretical synthesis, but rather to highlight, through the discussion of these concepts, the possibilities of antifascist alliance politics against Big Tech. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RG8XNB/ Seminar room 3 Christopher Coenen PUBLISH UPWMWR@@programm.infraunited.org -UPWMWR Jenseits von technologischer Alternativlosigkeit: Austauschraum zu Widerstandsstrategien gegen KI de de 20260412T133000 20260412T143000 1.00000 Jenseits von technologischer Alternativlosigkeit: Austauschraum zu Widerstandsstrategien gegen KI Der Workshop versteht sich als offener Austauschraum, in dem Widerstandsstrategien gegen gegenwärtige KI-Entwicklungen nicht primär bewertet oder festgelegt, sondern gemeinsam erkundet, erzählt und verhandelt werden. Ziel ist es, einen Ort zu schaffen, an dem unterschiedliche Erfahrungen, Wünsche, Zweifel und Hoffnungen sichtbar werden und miteinander in Beziehung treten können. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Verbindung und Austausch: das Teilen von Perspektiven, das Zuhören, das gemeinsame Nachdenken darüber, was Widerstand bedeuten kann und welche Zukünfte jenseits technischer Alternativlosigkeit vorstellbar sind. Der Workshop lädt dazu ein, kollektive Denk- und Möglichkeitsräume zu öffnen, ohne den Anspruch auf fertige Lösungen oder einheitliche Positionen. Kleine Take-aways können entstehen, sind jedoch nachrangig gegenüber dem Aufbau von Beziehungen und dem Gefühl gemeinsamer Suchbewegungen. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Long workshop https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/UPWMWR/ Seminar room 3 Deleted User Paul Sean Jan Annie PUBLISH RLFXVZ@@programm.infraunited.org -RLFXVZ Network State Fascism en en 20260412T100000 20260412T103000 0.03000 Network State Fascism The Network State represents venture capital's audacious endgame: replacing democratic governments with sovereign territories run by tech billionaires. These projects span Honduras's Próspera, Nigeria's Itana, and Praxis's active colonization plans for Greenland, currently heavily advanced by Trump. This ideology synthesizes neo-reactionaries like Curtis Yarvin with accelarionists like Nick Land, techno-optimist mysticism and explicit eugenics. E.g. Praxis founder Dryden Brown openly states Black people are "not as smart as white people" while planning to "terraform" Greenland for uranium and rare earth extraction. Trump's Freedom Cities proposal operationalizes this vision on U.S. federal land — corporate enclaves exempt from labor laws and democratic governance – with ICE filling up the camps with a slave labour force for the near future . With JD Vance as VP, the administration's National Security Strategy explicitly undermines the integrity of the EU while championing far-right movements, creating conditions for Network State proliferation in the case of the collapse of the EU. This movement uses special economic zones for unregulated biotech, AI development, and weapons manufacturing. The goal: escape taxation and oversight, develop frontier technologies without ethical constraints, and prepare for "collapse" by building parallel societies. Network State fascism is 21st-century colonialism under the conditions of climate collapse. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RLFXVZ/ Seminar room 7 hoppi PUBLISH FRGXNB@@programm.infraunited.org -FRGXNB Konviviale Technik statt Big Tech de de 20260412T133000 20260412T143000 1.00000 Konviviale Technik statt Big Tech PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/FRGXNB/ Seminar room 7 Andrea Vetter PUBLISH KZSCSQ@@programm.infraunited.org -KZSCSQ Arts Space (Sunday) de de 20260412T100000 20260412T170000 7.00000 Arts Space (Sunday) Art Pieces at Arts Space in Lause (Lausitzer Straße 10) Jack Conwell, Daniel Donocan-Achi, Selin Bekcekaral // Memento Mori // Mixed Media Game Giacomo Nanni // Mechanical Turk // Video Conny Es Said // Why this result // AI-Painting on Canvas Navid Razavi // Algorithmic Gaze // Sound & Video Sarah Fitterer, Dominik Gangl // Apoteche // Mixed Media Installation Federico Poni // Invisible Work // Blue Tooth tracking Jo Tiffe // baised creatures // Mixed Media Installation Kathrin Hunze // Training your Best Friend // Mixed Media Installation Helena Nikolone // off grid wearables // Video to the Work at FMP1 Ginevra Petrozzi // POV: Time to Influence Your Targeted Ads // Video Art Pieces at FMP1 (conference venue, Franz Mehring Platz 1) Kathrin Hunze // Datahorse // Video Helena Nikonole with 868.net // off grid devices Maria Kaminska, Ben Christ, Fernanda Braun Santos // Sicherheit neu denken // Videos & Poster rainbow pill collective // entering the manosphere // Mixed Media Installation Joschi // Tesla Stoppen // Photos reincantamento // Online-Archive Berlin Luddites // Cables of Resistance Digest // Offline Archive PUBLIC CONFIRMED Art Installation https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KZSCSQ/ Lause (arts space) Cable Resist Art Space Lause 10