0.3 cableresist26 2026-04-10 2026-04-12 3 00:05 https://programm.infraunited.org https://programm.infraunited.org/media/cableresist26/img/CablesOfResistance_Logo_g3wvuQ1.svg Europe/Berlin Münzenbergsaal Panel 2026-04-10T15:30:00+02:00 15:30 01:00 Opening Panel cableresist26-1291-opening-panel General Program Cable Resist de false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/SVTRSH/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/SVTRSH/feedback/ Münzenbergsaal Panel 2026-04-10T16:30:00+02:00 16:30 01:00 Assemblies cableresist26-1292-assemblies General Program Cable Resist de false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/YPZSA9/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/YPZSA9/feedback/ Münzenbergsaal Keynote 2026-04-10T18:00:00+02:00 18:00 00:30 Keynote Cecilia Rikap cableresist26-1293-keynote-cecilia-rikap General Program Cable ResistCecilia Rikap de false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/XF3TKY/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/XF3TKY/feedback/ Münzenbergsaal Keynote 2026-04-10T18:30:00+02:00 18:30 00:30 Keynote Nina Scholz cableresist26-1294-keynote-nina-scholz General Program Cable ResistNina Scholz de false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VP3TA7/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VP3TA7/feedback/ Lause (arts space) Art Installation 2026-04-10T10:00:00+02:00 10:00 11:00 Splitted Art event taking place in Lause 10 & conference ground Art Exhibition & Diskussions with artists at Lausitzer Straße 10. Starting at April 9th with a vernissage and a panel dicussion at Lause 10. The exhibition is up to April 17th. Additional art works on view during the conference at FMP1. cableresist26-1307-arts-space-friday Arts /media/cableresist26/submissions/RTA7BJ/Finissage_Open-AI-Lab_2025-09-_2tHYBJ0.webp Cable ResistArt Space Lause 10 de 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 false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RTA7BJ/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RTA7BJ/feedback/ Münzenbergsaal Lightning Talk 2026-04-11T09:45:00+02:00 09:45 00:15 Morning Greetings & Houskeeping cableresist26-1296-good-morning-housekeeping General Program Cable Resist de false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/JXEX7H/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/JXEX7H/feedback/ Münzenbergsaal Panel 2026-04-11T10:15:00+02:00 10:15 01:00 panel on supply chains cableresist26-1303-supply-chain-panel General Program de false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RQ7JYW/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RQ7JYW/feedback/ Münzenbergsaal Panel 2026-04-11T13:30:00+02:00 13:30 01:30 Panel with activists from France, Ireland and Spain fighting data centers cableresist26-1301-data-center-panel General Program Dylan MurphyEdaLuis García ValverdeOla Bonati en false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/WMNMGP/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/WMNMGP/feedback/ Münzenbergsaal Panel 2026-04-11T16:30:00+02:00 16:30 01:00 (voläufig) Auf diesem Panel diskutieren wir mit Bewegungen und Wissenschaftler:innen, wie Big Tech unsere Städte und Nachbarschaften verändert und überlegen, wie wir uns Gentrifizieurung, Privatisierung und Überwachung widersetzen können. cableresist26-1299-panel-discussion-big-tech-against-our-cities-gentrifizierung-privatisierung-und-uberwachung Urban Politics Christoph Hassler (Bündnis Hansaplatz)Maja-Lee VoigtKatja SchwallerClaudia SeldinUnnamed user en false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/TQKT8W/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/TQKT8W/feedback/ Münzenbergsaal Workshop 2026-04-11T17:30:00+02:00 17:30 01:00 This session brings together perspectives on different forms of labour organising in the context of Big Tech. [speakers to be added] cableresist26-1288-overview-panel-on-labour-and-tech Labour Yonatan Miller en false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RK7QBN/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RK7QBN/feedback/ Münzenbergsaal Panel 2026-04-11T20:00:00+02:00 20:00 01:00 Widerstandsstrategien cableresist26-1295-widerstandsstrategien General Program Cable Resist de false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/9M9TPA/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/9M9TPA/feedback/ Salon Workshop 2026-04-11T10:00:00+02:00 10:00 01:00 This interactive workshop will give insights into an ongoing artistic research project focused on problematising the destructive impact of hyperscale data centre construction on landscapes and ecosystems. Participants will be invited to interact with visual and narrative materials unearthed by the research and to exchange ideas for the expansion of the project to other sites of struggle. cableresist26-1094-cloud-factories-researching-data-centre-sites-before-the-cloud-hits-the-ground Water and raw materials /media/cableresist26/submissions/QL3FNW/Untitled-12_pSIwBsH.jpg Papertrail en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QL3FNW/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QL3FNW/feedback/ Salon Long workshop 2026-04-11T13:30:00+02:00 13:30 01:30 Military systems are increasingly traversing private infrastructure while financed by venture capital. Tech executives can now exert influence within the Kill Cloud to protect their interests. The workshop examines machinations fostering and reshaping global power dynamics, embodied militarisation, AI, warfare, and resistance. cableresist26-1183-the-kill-cloud-as-corporate-takeover-the-convergence-of-the-military-venture-capitalism-and-technology-start-ups Militarisation Tatiana Bazzichelli, Lisa Ling, Joana Moll en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/MTLBX8/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/MTLBX8/feedback/ Salon Talk 2026-04-11T15:00:00+02:00 15:00 00:30 In this talk, we’re going to learn about the current landscape of censorship and discrimination that adult content creators and sex workers face online. We will then extrapolate how their tried-and-true strategies for navigating the ambiguous and shifting moral landscape of tech platforms can be used by political organizers across activist movements. cableresist26-1108-navigating-censorship-digital-exclusion-what-we-can-learn-from-adult-content-creators Feminism Raksha Muthukumar en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VBQPXX/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VBQPXX/feedback/ Salon Lightning Talk 2026-04-11T16:30:00+02:00 16:30 00:30 This talk draws on academic research on migrant workers' lives in the gig economy. While based on research, the aim of the talk is practice-oriented: to share insights useful for activists and social movements on how to reach workers who are not organised yet, and shed light on overlooked aspects in workers' lives beyond their work. cableresist26-1187-platform-work-as-an-answer-to-what-understanding-migrant-workers-life-worlds-beyond-the-gig Labour Barbara en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VUBTA3/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VUBTA3/feedback/ Salon Talk 2026-04-11T17:00:00+02:00 17:00 00:30 We are familiar with the exploitation of low-wage workers by big tech. But what about the more privileged groups of software developers, UX engineers, etc? Are they part of the problem, or a potential source of worker power? Based on research in Berlin's tech industry and my political work in the field, the talk explores the contradictory class dynamics of (labor) struggles against tech companies. cableresist26-1228-within-or-against-the-role-of-it-workers-in-the-fight-against-big-tech Labour Valentin de false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/EGJRXQ/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/EGJRXQ/feedback/ Seminar room 1 Talk 2026-04-11T10:00:00+02:00 10:00 00:30 Acid Clouds is a research project initiated by graphic designer Niels Schrader and photographer Roel Backaert. It explores the hidden infrastructures of digital life, exposing the political, ecological and social dynamics embodied by data centres. Moving beyond the sanitized image of the ‘cloud’, it unpacks the material and ethical complexities of these often overlooked data storage structures. cableresist26-1054-acid-clouds Climate and energy /media/cableresist26/submissions/E7PQDL/acid-clouds_niels-schrader_Blt_NU50kgK.webp Niels Schrader en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/E7PQDL/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/E7PQDL/feedback/ Seminar room 1 Talk 2026-04-11T11:00:00+02:00 11:00 00:30 This talk explores how BigTech are using artificial intelligence to prospect for critical minerals in Africa. KoBold Metals, Silicon Valley start-up is harvesting historic geological survey data, and licensing its proprietary AI engine to mining companies, to create “a Google Maps of mineral deposits”. The circular economy will not be forged from recycled metals, but recycled colonialism. cableresist26-1057-circular-economies-recycled-colonies Water and raw materials /media/cableresist26/submissions/R8LJC9/CablesOfResistance_mdRevTb.png Stephen Cornford en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/R8LJC9/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/R8LJC9/feedback/ Seminar room 1 Talk 2026-04-11T11:30:00+02:00 11:30 00:30 This talk is meant to analyse of the political economy of data centre expansions. I diverge from both mainstream narratives of haphazard data-centre construction as useful for digital economies, and critical narratives of data centres as intrinsically domestically harmful. Instead, I describe them as a rational, manageable asset — yet one that is rooted in imperialist extraction. cableresist26-1070-data-centres-and-the-imperialist-casino Water and raw materials Vinit Ravishankar en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/8HPLM9/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/8HPLM9/feedback/ Seminar room 1 Talk 2026-04-11T13:30:00+02:00 13:30 00:30 We are all too aware of the Technology Hype Cycle: A new technology promises to reshape the world, capitalists jump in to make as much profit as possible, then when reality fails to match hype, a new technology is found to continue the cycle. This is a distillation of a much older pattern: the way capitalism finds, exploits and uses up frontiers to fuel the illusion of perpetual growth. cableresist26-1085-boom-bust-quit-the-technology-hype-cycle-as-capitalism-s-latest-frontier Climate and energy Alex Durrant en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/DULTBL/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/DULTBL/feedback/ Seminar room 1 Talk 2026-04-11T14:00:00+02:00 14:00 00:30 This talk confronts military technoscience, especially AI, drones, and algorithmic warfare by bridging critical scholarship and activism. It presents research on control, autonomy, targeting, and datafication, and maps feminist and anticolonial resistance strategies to build solidarities among academics, artists, and social movements to challenge the normalization of “software-based war”. cableresist26-1211-confronting-military-technoscience-academic-and-activist-engagements Militarisation Nil UzunJutta Weber en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/BHURD7/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/BHURD7/feedback/ Seminar room 1 Talk 2026-04-11T14:30:00+02:00 14:30 00:30 Digital platforms are essential for feminist movements and increasingly hostile to them. Drawing on qualitative research with Mexican cyberfeminist activists, this talk shows how X algorithmically suppresses feminist speech, amplifies misogynist violence, and how activists develop collective strategies of resistance beyond platform control. cableresist26-1060-algorithmic-violence-and-mexican-feminist-resistance-on-x Feminism /media/cableresist26/submissions/BTCNQK/20.20.17_pGrEiyr.png Elisa Flores Weiss en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/BTCNQK/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/BTCNQK/feedback/ Seminar room 1 Talk 2026-04-11T17:00:00+02:00 17:00 00:30 My talk will engage with labour aspirations of meaningful work and how workers navigate changes related to AI technologies, neoliberalism, and increasing inequalities. This is a political project that aims to decommodify labour and support the fundamental human need to be treated as equal, autonomous agents capable of shaping the course of their working lives. cableresist26-1239-why-work-shifting-the-lens-from-what-work-demands-to-what-workers-desire Labour Sana Ahmad en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/XR3RLV/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/XR3RLV/feedback/ Seminar room 1 Talk 2026-04-11T17:30:00+02:00 17:30 00:30 Geht es um die dramatischen Auswirkungen von Rechenzentren und Big Tech, blicken wir meist in die USA. Doch so weit entfernt passiert das alles nicht. Fabian, Niklas und Indra zeigen, wie sich Energiehunger und Platzbedarf von Rechenzentren auf Städte wie Frankfurt und Berlin auswirken. Und sie decken ein Muster auf, das sich weltweit wiederholt und mit der Operationslogik von Big Tech zu tun hat. cableresist26-1204-infrastrukturextraktivismus-wie-big-tech-mit-rechenzentren-unsere-stromnetze-und-stadte-ausbeutet Urban Politics Niklas SteinkeIndra JungblutFabian Halfar de 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/AQEKRA/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/AQEKRA/feedback/ Seminar room 1 Talk 2026-04-11T18:00:00+02:00 18:00 00:30 In diesem Talk soll es darum gehen, wie die parlamentarische Linke genutzt weredn kann, wichtige Informationen von den unterschiedlichen Ebenen zu bekommen und Proteste zu organisieren. Am Beispiel von Rechenzentren, wo von der Rechenzentrenstrategie der Bundesregierung bis zu Grundstücksvergabe vor Ort, überall Parlamente Einfluss haben. cableresist26-1237-parlamentarismus-nutzen-rechenzentren-bekampfen Urban Politics Sonja Lemke de 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/ME7E9E/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/ME7E9E/feedback/ Seminar room 2 Talk 2026-04-11T10:00:00+02:00 10:00 00:30 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. cableresist26-1266-from-big-oil-to-big-tech-the-power-of-cloud-giants-in-sustainability-transition Climate and energy Silvia Weko en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/GLXFFF/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/GLXFFF/feedback/ Seminar room 2 Talk 2026-04-11T10:30:00+02:00 10:30 00:30 AI’s ecological footprint doesn’t stop with data centres; here we’ll follow the AI supply chain to “megacluster” AI microchip factories spewing out “forever” chemicals, and all the way up to First Nation lands in Canada and Greenland, targeted for their rich deposits of rare earths and copper. cableresist26-1088-from-stargate-data-centres-to-the-indigenous-arctic-tracking-ai-s-toxic-supply-chain Water and raw materials Alistair Alexander en 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 false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/CFA9NN/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/CFA9NN/feedback/ Seminar room 2 Lightning Talk 2026-04-11T11:00:00+02:00 11:00 00:15 In der Schweiz ist ein massiver Ausbau von KI-Infrastruktur im Gange. Dem Schweizer Stromnetz droht mit den geplanten Datenzentrum die Überlastung, Anwohnende müssen um ihre Wasserversorgung fürchten. DochWiderstand regt sich. Im Rahmen der Kampagne "KI kurzschliessen" wird in der Schweiz an einem Bündnis gegen BigTech gearbeitet, das sich in einem Aktionscamp Anfangs Juli konsolidieren wird. cableresist26-1205-ki-kurzschliessen-widerstand-gegen-neue-datenzentren-in-der-schweiz Climate and energy Aufstände der Allmende de In den letzten Jahren wurde die Schweiz zu einem Standort mit zahlreichen BigTech-Niederlassungen und lokalen Techfirmen, unter anderem abgetrieben 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 15 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 Aktionscamp Anfangs Juli konsolidieren wird. true https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VBHBCT/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VBHBCT/feedback/ Seminar room 2 Lightning Talk 2026-04-11T11:15:00+02:00 11:15 00:15 10 mm per million years : the growth of a polymetallic nodule, from the abyssal plains of the Pacific. 16 minutes & 45 seconds : a hand, writing on paper the algorithm for mining one bitcoin. 32,768 vibrations per second : a quartz crystal, the timekeeper of electronic clocks. $202 ; the monthly paycheck of a cobalt miner in Congo. A visual essay exploring the entanglements of computation and time cableresist26-1235-counting-the-stones-in-my-computer-an-abyssal-perspective-on-the-value-of-time Water and raw materials Coralie Gourguechon en 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. true https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QXWEKV/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QXWEKV/feedback/ Seminar room 2 Lightning Talk 2026-04-11T11:30:00+02:00 11:30 00:15 Can we scale our way out of the crisis? Many in the tech world believe that AI's wide adoption will boost stagnating economies, increasing innovation and social welfare. From a growth-critical perspective, this talk dissects such ambitions, showing how the confluence of tech ideologies and the global growth paradigm intensifies extraction, and risks social as well as ecological deterioration. cableresist26-1189-ai-accelerationism-and-the-quest-for-unlimited-growth Climate and energy Annie en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/3VJ3VA/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/3VJ3VA/feedback/ Seminar room 2 Talk 2026-04-11T14:00:00+02:00 14:00 00:30 Big Tech kann gar nicht genug Rechenzentren bekommen - maßgeblich getrieben vom globalen KI-Hype. Schon jetzt verschärft dies die Klimakrise. Doch Reiche und Merz möchten noch mehr Rechenzentren und begünstigen Amazon und Co noch weiter. All das zeigt: An den Rechenzentren vereinen sich die Kämpfe für Klimagerechtigkeit, digitale Selbstbestimmung und eine demokratische Zukunft. cableresist26-1184-ki-big-tech-und-klimaholle-wie-die-bundesregierung-noch-mehr-rechenzentren-nach-deutschland-holen-mochte-und-warum-es-dringend-widerstand-braucht Climate and energy Julian Bothe de 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QKQRCD/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QKQRCD/feedback/ Seminar room 2 Talk 2026-04-11T14:30:00+02:00 14:30 00:30 Trans Rechte sind Menschenrechte, Digitalrechte sind Menschenrechte. Und wir müssen sie vereinen, und nicht einfach nur Erwähnungen in den Strategien, Positionen und Policen der anderen sein. Dieser Vortrag ist ein Plädoyer Trans Rechte zu digitalisieren und Digitalrechte zu transitionieren. cableresist26-1135-trans-rechte-mit-digitalrechten-queeren Feminism Jyn de 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/NCFNNP/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/NCFNNP/feedback/ Seminar room 2 Talk 2026-04-11T15:00:00+02:00 15:00 00:30 Big Tech profits from misogyny, queerphobia, and authoritarian politics while capturing AI governance. Drawing on feminist and grassroots struggles in Brazil, this talk advances feminist countergovernance: collective resistance, legal action, and organised democratic conflict to challenge corporate power and reclaim the political imagination beyond Big Tech. cableresist26-1227-misogyny-by-design-why-resisting-big-tech-requires-feminist-countergovernance Feminism Carine Roos en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/FB9FGC/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/FB9FGC/feedback/ Seminar room 2 Talk 2026-04-11T16:30:00+02:00 16:30 00:30 We will present how technical investigations of mobile apps and websites can help platform workers to identify labor rights and privacy violations. cableresist26-1029-reverse-engineering-to-support-workers-rights Labour Simone Robutti (Tech Workers Coalition) en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/JLJY9Y/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/JLJY9Y/feedback/ Seminar room 2 Talk 2026-04-11T18:00:00+02:00 18:00 00:30 Wer heutzutage eine Wohnung sucht, kommt kaum noch darum herum, sich einen Account bei Immoscout24 & Co. zu erstellen. Diese „Platform Real Estate“ sind eine besondere Art der „Walled Gardens“, die ihr Geschäftsmodell auf die sich immer weiter verschärfende Wohnungskrise ausgerichtet haben. Und das ist äußerst profitabel für die Besitzer dieser Strukturen der Daseinsvorsorge. cableresist26-1062-redscout24-zur-digitalen-wohnungsfrage Urban Politics Sandra de 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/9LVYR7/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/9LVYR7/feedback/ Seminar room 3 Workshop 2026-04-11T10:00:00+02:00 10:00 01:00 Welche Taktiken sind erfolgsbringend und welche Herausforderungen muss man überwinden, um sich gegen Rechenzentren zu engagieren oder dazu zu forschen? Über diese Fragen möchten wir uns mit Teilnehmenden in einer Fishbowl-Diskussion austauschen. AlgorithmWatch beginnt die Diskussion gemeinsam mit Vertreter*innen aus Aktivismus und investigativem Journalismus, und lädt alle zum Mitdiskutieren ein. cableresist26-1128-wie-wehrt-man-sich-gegen-rechenzentren-fishbowl-diskussion-uber-herausforderungen-und-chancen Climate and energy /media/cableresist26/submissions/WTVSMX/2025113_Symbolbild_KI_Nachhalti_p9XB9IY.png Kira Mössinger, AlgorithmWatch de 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/WTVSMX/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/WTVSMX/feedback/ Seminar room 3 Workshop 2026-04-11T11:00:00+02:00 11:00 01:00 Der Hype um generative KI bedroht in Zeiten der eskalierenden Klimakrise die Zukunft eines lebenswerten Planeten für uns alle. Denn die Rechenzentren brauchen viel Energie. Diese will die Gasindustrie liefern und bedient sich dafür einer größten Klimaschutzlüge. Mit der Risikotechnologie CCS soll das CO2 abgefangen und in absurd hohen Mengen unter dem Meeresboden deponiert werden. cableresist26-1172-generative-ki-fossiles-gas-ccs-klimakatastrophe Climate and energy /media/cableresist26/submissions/XNDGPC/Bild1_fuVrUaj.jpg Moritz, urgewaldMarie-Luise Abshagen de 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 false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/XNDGPC/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/XNDGPC/feedback/ Seminar room 3 Talk 2026-04-11T14:00:00+02:00 14:00 00:30 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. cableresist26-1251-our-bodies-our-data-our-choice-everybodys-future Feminism emski en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KAJAV9/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KAJAV9/feedback/ Seminar room 3 Workshop 2026-04-11T14:30:00+02:00 14:30 01:00 In diesem Workshop erkunden wir die geschlechtsspezifischen Dimensionen von Big Tech. Gemeinsam analysieren wir die Themen, die wir selber mitbringen: Welche Bedeutung haben sie für marginalisierte Gruppen? Wer wird in bestehenden Lösungen übersehen? Ziel ist es, argumentationsfähig zu werden und den Kampf gegen Big Tech als feministischen Kampf sichtbar zu machen. cableresist26-1122-technologie-und-gender-strategien-fur-eine-feministische-zukunft Feminism /media/cableresist26/submissions/7N8UFU/queere-fete-logo-klein_rPxchBr.png Carla (Queere FeTe)EmmaKathe de 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/7N8UFU/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/7N8UFU/feedback/ Seminar room 3 Lightning Talk 2026-04-11T18:15:00+02:00 18:15 00:15 This talk examines the transformation of Roatán Island, Honduras, into a site of biotechnological experimentation and libertarian health governance. It asks how ventures promoting ideas such as “Hacking Death” not only reconfigure notions of health and the human body, but also reshape the public-spatialised setting of human bodies: urbanisation. cableresist26-1286-de-urbanising-health-tech-libertarianism-and-biotechnological-experimentation-on-roatan-island Urban Politics Niloufar Vadiati de 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/C7QKYK/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/C7QKYK/feedback/ Seminar room 7 Long workshop 2026-04-11T10:00:00+02:00 10:00 01:30 A collaborative space to to create new perspectives on technology’s environmental‑justice impact, especially AI. We start with a life‑cycle analysis of tech: extraction, production, distribution, use, and disposal, to examining environmental, social, structural and colonial costs. In group work we will study real-world examples and apply an environmental‑justice lens across various justice axes. cableresist26-1247-tech-x-environmental-justice-unpacking-the-hidden-cost-of-innovation Water and raw materials B en 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. true https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/3UYYDZ/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/3UYYDZ/feedback/ Seminar room 7 Workshop 2026-04-11T13:30:00+02:00 13:30 01:00 Every year millions and millions of tonnes of devices end up as e-waste. What could it look like to break this cycle? A practical inquiry inspired by permacomputing. cableresist26-1282-compost-party-permacomputing-and-feminist-infrastructure-from-scraps Water and raw materials /media/cableresist26/submissions/LYFVDH/phone-with-solar-panel_zwSeKXK_wTzISVg.webp arneMalte en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/LYFVDH/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/LYFVDH/feedback/ Seminar room 7 Lightning Talk 2026-04-11T16:30:00+02:00 16:30 00:15 AI companies, platforms and outsourcing firms mobilize a global and precarious workforce to prepare, annotate and moderate datasets for AI. Against pervasive labor rights violations, this talk mobilizes insights from research, asking: How can existing labor rights frameworks be mobilized to bring about change? And where is new regulation needed? cableresist26-1202-fighting-for-labor-rights-in-ai-data-work Labour Camilla Salim Wagner en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/CQEFDQ/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/CQEFDQ/feedback/ Seminar room 7 Talk 2026-04-11T17:00:00+02:00 17:00 00:30 The talk presents lessons from a project conducted with six worker collectives and cooperatives from Brazil and Argentina in tech and delivery. Drawing on Latin American traditions of community tech and solidarity economies, it explores how these groups territorialize technology and build collective strategies grounded in intercooperation, care before code, and popular digital sovereignty. cableresist26-1093-worker-owned-tech-lessons-from-latin-america Labour Rafael Grohmann en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/D9C7KY/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/D9C7KY/feedback/ Seminar room 7 Workshop 2026-04-11T17:30:00+02:00 17:30 01:00 Social Media at it's best: Aktivistisches, unprofessionelles Radio von unten, mobil in der Stadt unterwegs und live gestreamt ins Internet. Wie ein technisches Setup dafür aussehen kann und was ihr sonst noch bedenken solltet, das erfahrt ihr in diesem Workshop. cableresist26-1163-lowtec-diy-aktivistisches-radio Urban Politics /media/cableresist26/submissions/E78PGE/841_E2zYyV7.jpg MischkoHilke de 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/E78PGE/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/E78PGE/feedback/ Other Workshop 2026-04-11T10:00:00+02:00 10:00 01:00 Die Ausstellung zeigt Bilder aus der Wasserwald-Besetzung in Grünheide, in der sich mutige Menschen gegen die Ausbau der Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide, Brandenburg eingesetzt haben. Außerdem geht die Ausstellung auf die internationalen Auswirkungen der BigTec ein, wie dem Lithium Abbau in Lateinamerika für die Elektroautos von Tesla und der Nutzung von Drohnen und KI in Gaza. cableresist26-1067-tesla-stoppen Climate and energy Joschi de 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/SNMCSG/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/SNMCSG/feedback/ Other Long workshop 2026-04-11T19:00:00+02:00 19:00 01:30 Wie verändert “KI” den urbanen Raum? Auf der kritischen “KI”-Stadtführung gehen wir gemeinsam auf Spurensuche: Von einem gescheiterten “KI”-Selbstbedienungsladen bis hin zum sogenannten Amazon Tower. Unterwegs ergründen wir, wie die Infrastruktur rund um den “KI”-Hype das Stadtbild direkt und indirekt prägt. cableresist26-1225-kritische-ki-stadtfuhrung Urban Politics /media/cableresist26/submissions/KTUDUQ/bildcrop_HdBhnCf.png Hubi & SarahDeleted User de 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KTUDUQ/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KTUDUQ/feedback/ Other Lightning Talk 2026-04-11T21:00:00+02:00 21:00 00:15 Hier bekommen drei Journalisten die Gelegenheit, in aller Ausführlichkeit zu erklären, wie sie es schaffen, Begriffe im Internet in verschiedenen Dokumenten wiederzufinden, wie sie daraus ominöse Anschuldigungen konstruieren und darüber dann skandalöse Artikel zusammendichten. Vermutlich sind wir aber auch in 5 Minuten durch. cableresist26-1305-investigative-recherchetechnik-gleiche-worter Jens Sommer, Schrannes Hader, Nein B. Karon de false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/V87KR7/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/V87KR7/feedback/ Lause (arts space) Art Installation 2026-04-11T10:00:00+02:00 10:00 10:00 Splitted Art event taking place in Lause 10 & conference ground Art Exhibition & Diskussions with artists at Lausitzer Straße 10. Starting at April 9th with a vernissage and a panel dicussion at Lause 10. The exhibition is up to April 17th. Additional art works on view during the conference at FMP1. cableresist26-1308-arts-space-saturday Arts /media/cableresist26/submissions/KTZWTR/Finissage_Open-AI-Lab_2025-09-_JW1CcH2.webp Art Space Lause 10 de 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 false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KTZWTR/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KTZWTR/feedback/ Münzenbergsaal Panel 2026-04-12T10:00:00+02:00 10:00 01:00 Overview Panel on Military with Athony Löwenstein, mal & Rheinmetall Entwaffnen. Chair: Simin Jawah (tbc) cableresist26-1304-big-tech-violence-oder-military-big-tech Militarisation Cable ResistmalKerstin (Rheinmetall Entwaffnen)Antony Löwenstein de false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/CGN7DE/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/CGN7DE/feedback/ Münzenbergsaal Workshop 2026-04-12T11:00:00+02:00 11:00 01:00 1) IL (angefragt): Indienstnahme neuester Technologien für eine Faschisierung 2) Lia Becker (angefragt): Rechter Kampf gegen 'Gender-Ideologie' und Trans-Rechte – Antifeminismus als Bewegungskitt einer hochgradig inhomogenen rechten Bewegung 3) capulcu: Krise der Wahrheit als Wegbereiter der Faschisierung cableresist26-1287-techno-faschismus-im-uberblick Fascism gast de **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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/XGRLHA/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/XGRLHA/feedback/ Münzenbergsaal Talk 2026-04-12T13:30:00+02:00 13:30 00:30 Digitale Plattformen sind greifbare Manifestationen des digitalisierten Kapitalismus. Sie verwalten und kommerzialisieren unser Leben in allen Bereichen und entziehen sich gleichzeitig einer demokratischen Kontrolle. Der Talk möchte ermutigen, die Vergesellschaftung dieser Plattform zu einem zentralen Bestandteil einer transformativen digitalpolitischen Bewegung zu machen. cableresist26-1111-cables-of-hope-digitale-plattformen-vergesellschaften-statt-gegenwart-reformieren Futures Malte EngelerAline Blankertz de 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/37MJS8/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/37MJS8/feedback/ Münzenbergsaal Talk 2026-04-12T14:00:00+02:00 14:00 00:30 Die Durchsetzung neuer Technologien wird häufig als „Freiheit“ verkauft. Dies ist insbesondere der Fall in Hinblick auf die Entwicklungen der Big-Tech-Unternehmen. Dahingehend lohnt sich ein Blick auf die Ideologie des Rechtslibertarianismus bzw. autoritären Liberalismus. Als Gegenpol dazu wird eine anarchistische Sicht auf den Nutzen von Technologien formuliert. cableresist26-1050-eigentumlich-anti-sozial-alternativen-zum-rechtslibertaren-tech-faschismus Futures Jonathan de 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, true https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/DBCLWD/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/DBCLWD/feedback/ Münzenbergsaal Panel 2026-04-12T14:30:00+02:00 14:30 01:00 Strategy & Organizing cableresist26-1297-forum-strategy-organizing General Program Cable Resist de false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/UY9PCL/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/UY9PCL/feedback/ Münzenbergsaal Keynote 2026-04-12T16:00:00+02:00 16:00 00:30 Closing cableresist26-1298-closing-session General Program Cable Resist de false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/PWRT9A/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/PWRT9A/feedback/ Salon Talk 2026-04-12T10:00:00+02:00 10:00 00:30 Unter dem Label digitale Souveränität wird momentan massiv in digitale Infrastrukturprojekte „made in Germany“ investiert. Unternehmen greifen darunter direkt in KI-Entwicklung, Wissenschaft und Bildung ein und rufen dabei eine nationale (digitale) Identität an. Soziale Bewegungen stehen vor der Aufgabe, lokale politische Praxis zu entwickeln, die den transnationalen Zusammenhang im Blick behält. cableresist26-1208-big-tech-made-in-germany-formierung-eines-nationalen-tech-narrativs Fascism Anna de 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. true https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VJYLJW/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VJYLJW/feedback/ Salon Talk 2026-04-12T10:30:00+02:00 10:30 00:30 Der Vortrag setzt an der aktuellen Techno-Faschismus-Debatte an und kontextualisiert diese vor dem Hintergrund der Debatte über den Zusammenhang von Wirtschaft, Technologie und Nationalsozialismus. Fokus ist die Einführung in zentrale Konzepte & Debatten (zB Reaktionärer Modernismus, Primat-Debatte) sowie Hoch-Technologien & Industrien (zB Treibstoff-Synthese/IG Farben, Flugmotoren/BMW). cableresist26-1059-techno-faschismus-damals-und-heute Fascism Fred Heussner de 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KXJ3YK/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KXJ3YK/feedback/ Salon Talk 2026-04-12T11:00:00+02:00 11:00 00:30 In Myanmar und Äthiopien trug Facebook zu Gewalt und Vertreibung bei. Wie Überlebende Meta nun vor Gericht zur Verantwortung ziehen. cableresist26-1265-gewalt-geteilt Militarisation Lena Rohrbach de 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/8EVU77/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/8EVU77/feedback/ Salon Talk 2026-04-12T11:30:00+02:00 11:30 00:30 Veranstaltung zu neuen Überwachungstechnologien von Frontex cableresist26-1053-mit-hochtechnologie-gegen-migration Militarisation Matthias Monroy de 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/7WR33J/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/7WR33J/feedback/ Salon Talk 2026-04-12T13:30:00+02:00 13:30 00:30 This talk will introduce degrowth as a useful lens for rethinking digital technology and big tech. We will introduce some of the core ideas behind degrowth and examples of degrowth-aligned digital tech, and discuss similarities and potential synergies between both movements. cableresist26-1181-tech-degrowth-imagining-the-small-tech-we-want Futures Aureliane FroehlichSebastián Uribe en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/9RCMUT/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/9RCMUT/feedback/ Salon Talk 2026-04-12T14:00:00+02:00 14:00 00:30 In an earlier recent contribution (Mansouri and Bailey, 2025), we drew on Erik Olin Wright’s (2019) anti-capitalist framework to consider five ‘ways to be anti-AI’: taming AI, resisting AI, dismantling AI, escaping AI and smashing AI. Here, we present a discussion of both the possibilities and potential pitfalls associated with these different pathways towards struggling against AI. cableresist26-1049-struggling-against-ai-s-augmented-exploitation-and-control-pathways-and-pitfalls Futures /media/cableresist26/submissions/3NVSDW/Mansouri-Baliey-anti-AI_xEVLAOL.jpg Masoumeh Iran Mansouri en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/3NVSDW/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/3NVSDW/feedback/ Seminar room 1 Talk 2026-04-12T10:00:00+02:00 10:00 00:30 What kind of fascism are we facing today, and how do tech corporations enable its emergence? This talk explores techno-fascism as a system of power driven by technology, desire, and militarized futures. It traces Silicon Valley’s turn toward state and military collaboration, analyzes sex and intimacy as tools of governance, and asks how this demands new forms of resistance and (self-)defense. cableresist26-1176-know-your-enemy-sex-and-violence-within-the-machinery-of-techno-fascism Fascism /media/cableresist26/submissions/QZPQGD/photo_2026-01-16_12.41.05_SKHAuOn.jpeg Janne Kummer en 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 false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QZPQGD/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QZPQGD/feedback/ Seminar room 1 Talk 2026-04-12T10:30:00+02:00 10:30 00:30 Techno-authoritarianism is analyzed as the convergence between platform-driven disintermediation of social reproduction and the centralization of political decision-making in liberal democracies. Accelerated by digitalized global warfare, this process produces new forms of political capitalism, blurring the boundary between market and democracy and calling for alternative politics and technology. cableresist26-1255-5-theses-on-techno-authoritarianism Fascism Maurilio Pirone en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/SR8K8Q/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/SR8K8Q/feedback/ Seminar room 1 Talk 2026-04-12T11:00:00+02:00 11:00 01:00 There is little reporting in Germany about the genocide in Gaza and the murderous AI targeting systems used by the IDF. However, the role of US big tech remains completely in the dark. Google, Microsoft and, in particular, Amazon provide the IDF with the digital infrastructure necessary for its annihilation of Palestine. This talk will summarize the situation as well as the resistance movements. cableresist26-1115-automated-war-crimes-powered-by-amazon-and-the-resistance-against-it Militarisation Rainer RehakAbbas en false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/TFV9YX/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/TFV9YX/feedback/ Seminar room 1 Talk 2026-04-12T13:30:00+02:00 13:30 00:30 How could our society and the Internet look like today? This talk visits a possible alternative timeline of technological and political history, one that leads to a very different 2026. This fictional present is a world of small tech organizations instead of Big Tech conglomerates. What can we learn from this different reality to help materialize a better future? cableresist26-1194-building-backwards-lessons-from-an-alternative-history-of-the-web Futures DaisySarah en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/TBECPH/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/TBECPH/feedback/ Seminar room 1 Talk 2026-04-12T14:00:00+02:00 14:00 00:30 This conversation discusses data capitalism, the commons, and technopolitical alternatives in Latin America, focusing on collectives that build autonomous digital infrastructures. It highlights how initiatives like MariaLab, MTST’s Tech Center, and Señoritas Courier articulate care, digital sovereignty, and situated knowledge as responses to surveillance and power concentration. cableresist26-1136-a-study-of-brazilianstechnopolitical-collectives-and-the-construction-of-autonomous-infrastructures-and-digital-alternatives Futures Maraiza Adami en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QWQAPS/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QWQAPS/feedback/ Seminar room 2 Talk 2026-04-12T10:00:00+02:00 10:00 00:30 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. cableresist26-1165-the-ai-energy-fascism-nexus-an-anatomy-of-an-alliance Fascism Apasek en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/YCKDCU/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/YCKDCU/feedback/ Seminar room 2 Talk 2026-04-12T10:30:00+02:00 10:30 00:30 This talk examines far-right communicative fascism through the concept of Really Fake, where truth and fiction blur across synthetic media and platformed virality. Through case studies of Trump and Meloni, it explores conspiracy theories and their alternative realities as deliberate tools of far-right world-making, then repurposing conspiring as a collective and subversive practice of resistance. cableresist26-1200-conspiring-as-resistance-how-to-subvert-the-really-fake Fascism /media/cableresist26/submissions/WKDXE3/Untitled_-_Frame_4_6gWMEE5_BVevwMi.webp Maria Maddalena Lenzi en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/WKDXE3/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/WKDXE3/feedback/ Seminar room 2 Workshop 2026-04-12T11:00:00+02:00 11:00 01:00 "Border Profiteers" exposes how migration management has become a global industry feeding on crisis. As wars and climate collapse displace millions, tech firms and arms makers turn suffering into profit. This session traces how state power and capital fuse into a regime of exclusion, turning displacement into a resource for racial capitalism — and how to organize resistance! cableresist26-1230-border-profiteers-on-the-recycling-of-bare-life Militarisation /media/cableresist26/submissions/833Z7B/BorderProfiteersWIPLogo_PV9GCbI.png hoppiMarley Bharathi Stefan en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/833Z7B/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/833Z7B/feedback/ Seminar room 2 Long workshop 2026-04-12T13:30:00+02:00 13:30 01:00 Mass chip production depends on mineral extraction, labour exploitation, and billion-dollar fabs. Can hardware exist without these harms, or are they inseparable from computation itself? We will attempt to come up with a framing to distinguish political choices from technical constraints, and ask what we'd have to give up because its incompatible with our values. cableresist26-1147-can-we-build-hardware-without-capitalism Futures Terrabyte en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/E3EYPD/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/E3EYPD/feedback/ Seminar room 3 Talk 2026-04-12T10:00:00+02:00 10:00 00:30 Big Tech now often wields direct or almost direct political power. Beyond their similarities to the old media moguls, the IT oligarchs also have a new kind of firm grip on the masses. Big Tech has ideologically paved the way for the reactionary forces and is now striving for a new political order. To develop effective anti-fascist alliances, we need a clearer understanding of these developments. cableresist26-1256-understanding-the-political-attack-by-big-tech-and-options-for-anti-fascist-alliances Fascism Christopher Coenen en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RG8XNB/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RG8XNB/feedback/ Seminar room 3 Long workshop 2026-04-12T13:30:00+02:00 13:30 01:00 Interaktiver Workshop in dem in verschiedenen Gruppen folgende Fragestellung bearbeitet wird: Auf welcher theoretischen und praktischen Grundlage kann eine kritische und widerständige Haltung gegenüber den gegenwärtigen KI-Entwicklungen formuliert werden? cableresist26-1095-jenseits-von-technologischer-alternativlosigkeit-austauschraum-zu-widerstandsstrategien-gegen-ki Futures Deleted UserPaulSeanJanAnnie de 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. true https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/UPWMWR/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/UPWMWR/feedback/ Seminar room 7 Talk 2026-04-12T10:00:00+02:00 10:00 00:30 Silicon Valley billionaires are building sovereign tech colonies worldwide to escape democratic oversight. The Network State merges crypto capital, weapons development, and colonial land grabs with accelerationist ideology rooted in racial superiority and eugenics. In their view democracy doesn't just need reform — they demand it be "rebooted" into CEO dictatorship. cableresist26-1240-network-state-fascism Fascism hoppi en 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. false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RLFXVZ/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RLFXVZ/feedback/ Seminar room 7 Workshop 2026-04-12T13:30:00+02:00 13:30 01:00 Wie könnte eine gerechte und zukunftsfähige digitale Technik aussehen? In diesem Talk wird der Begriff der konvivialen Technik vorgestellt, der eine Perspektive über eine Technik für alle und von allen jenseits des Kapitalismus bietet. Diese Perspektive wollen wir anschließend an den Talk gemeinsam ausprobieren - wir schreiben Science Fiction! cableresist26-1283-konviviale-technik-statt-big-tech Futures Andrea Vetter de false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/FRGXNB/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/FRGXNB/feedback/ Lause (arts space) Art Installation 2026-04-12T10:00:00+02:00 10:00 07:00 Splitted Art event taking place in Lause 10 & conference ground Art Exhibition & Diskussions with artists at Lausitzer Straße 10. Starting at April 9th with a vernissage and a panel dicussion at Lause 10. The exhibition is up to April 17th. Additional art works on view during the conference at FMP1. cableresist26-1309-arts-space-sunday Arts /media/cableresist26/submissions/KZSCSQ/Finissage_Open-AI-Lab_2025-09-_JHUgUvU.webp Cable ResistArt Space Lause 10 de 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 false https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KZSCSQ/ https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KZSCSQ/feedback/