0.53Cables of Resistance - movement conference against Big Tech
cableresist26
2026-04-102026-04-12300:05https://programm.infraunited.orghttps://programm.infraunited.org/media/cableresist26/img/CablesOfResistance_Logo_g3wvuQ1.svgEurope/BerlinMünzenbergsaalOpening Panel: Movement Power against Big TechPanel2026-04-10T15:30:00+02:0015:3001:00(eng below)
Dieses Konferenz ist keine Inforveranstaltung, sie ist eine Kampfansage!
This is not an info-conference its a rallying crycableresist26-1291-opening-panel-movement-power-against-big-tech/media/cableresist26/submissions/SVTRSH/COR-Logo-white_vfxnr0r.jpgCable ResistRikeYonatan MillerTommypashade(eng below)
** Panel findet auf Deutsch und Englisch mit Übersetzung im Münzbergsaal statt und wird in Seminarraum 1 gestreamt **
** The panel will be held in German and English with translation. Venue: Münzbergsaal & streaming in Seminar Room 1 **
DE (eng below):
Dieses Konferenz ist keine Inforveranstaltung, sie ist eine Kampfansage!
Eröffnungspanel der Cables of Resistance Konferenz mit
Tommy, Pasha, Rike und Yonathan aus dem Orga-Team.
Gäste:
Uschi von Tesla den Hahn Abdrehen
Orca von No Tech for Apartheid
Morten von Berlins vs Amazon
ENG:
This is not an info-conference its a rallying cry!
Opening panel of the Cables of Resistance conference with
Tommy, Pasha, Rike and Yonathan from the organising team.
Guests:
Uschi from Tesla den Hahn Abdrehen
Orca from No Tech for Apartheid
Morten from Berlins vs Amazonfalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/SVTRSH/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/SVTRSH/feedback/MünzenbergsaalAssemblies on the manifesto (primarily EN)Panel2026-04-10T16:30:00+02:0016:3001:00Let's get into the mood of resistance! We are glad you are here, and we do not just want you to listen. We want you to connect with the people around you, bring in your own experience, share and discuss your perspective on the manifesto.
The Cables of Resistance Manifesto v1.0: https://cableresist.de/#manifest and below
If you prefer to discuss in German, please head to Seminarraum 1.cableresist26-1292-assemblies-on-the-manifesto-primarily-enCable ResistdefalseManifest DE/ENhttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/YPZSA9/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/YPZSA9/feedback/MünzenbergsaalCecilia Rikap on corporate power, geopolitics and how to build digital sovereignty for people and the planetKeynote2026-04-10T18:00:00+02:0018:0000:30Big Tech companies are not merely large corporations; they are political actors and economic planners. Their deep pockets and control over social media and personal data are only the surface of what truly explains their dominance. Their power lies in their dominance over today's control technologies deployed within and beyond the tech sector.cableresist26-1293-cecilia-rikap-on-corporate-power-geopolitics-and-how-to-build-digital-sovereignty-for-people-and-the-planetCecilia RikapdeBig Tech companies are not merely large corporations; they are political actors and economic planners. Their deep pockets and control over social media and personal data are only the surface of what truly explains their dominance. Their power lies in their dominance over today's control technologies deployed within and beyond the tech sector. Digital technologies are produced, exchanged and consumed on their clouds offering them a unique panopticon of the global economy. Their power grows as artificial intelligence becomes widely adopted and emerges as the mainstream method of invention and creation, one that undermines people's capacity to think. The US government has strengthened its ties and support to Big Tech since Trump's second term, with direct effects for digital peripheries, including Europe. Against this backdrop, attempts to expand digital sovereignty should not only be seen as an alternative to Big Tech's ruling power but also as an international and democratic strategy aimed at putting technology at the service of people and the planet.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/XF3TKY/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/XF3TKY/feedback/MünzenbergsaalNina Scholz über den Tech-Widerstand. Eine Auswertung, aber vor allem ein AusblickKeynote2026-04-10T18:30:00+02:0018:3000:30Jeden Tag erreichen uns zahlreiche neue Nachrichten über Tech, die überfordern – und gleichzeitig fehlen oft konkrete Ansatzpunkte für einen breiten, kollektiven Widerstand. Vielleicht ist es sogar schon zu spät? Wie organisieren wir uns am besten – und mit wem? Wie lassen sich Visionen entwerfen, die über reine Gegenwehr hinausgehen?cableresist26-1294-nina-scholz-uber-den-tech-widerstand-eine-auswertung-aber-vor-allem-ein-ausblickNina ScholzdeJeden Tag erreichen uns zahlreiche neue Nachrichten über Tech, die überfordern – und gleichzeitig fehlen oft konkrete Ansatzpunkte für einen breiten, kollektiven Widerstand. Vielleicht ist es sogar schon zu spät? Bestimmen die Tech-Overlords längst die Regeln, während wir nur noch kleine Rädchen im System sind? Meine These: Wir befinden uns nicht zum ersten Mal an diesem Punkt. Vielmehr stehen wir am Ende des letzten Bewegungszyklus des Tech-Widerstands. Für den nächsten Zyklus können wir gemeinsam aus der Vergangenheit lernen: Wie organisieren wir uns am besten – und mit wem? Wie lassen sich Visionen entwerfen, die über reine Gegenwehr hinausgehen?falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VP3TA7/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VP3TA7/feedback/MünzenbergsaalKonzert: Ensemble IncroyablePanel2026-04-10T20:00:00+02:0020:0001:00Ursprünglich als Demokapelle 2016 aus der Taufe gehoben, hat das chaotisch-symphatische Ensemble Incroyable das Konzept des zahlenstarken Guerilla-Orchesters in alle Bereiche des Möglichen ausgefaltet: In radikaler Offenheit allen Klängen, Künsten und Instrumenten gegenüber pfeift der bläserreiche Wanderzirkus auf Professionalität und zieht daraus einen besonderen Zauber!cableresist26-1324-konzert-ensemble-incroyable/media/cableresist26/submissions/GWPX3W/75iLVtXuBFUHP9GjlPIy_KmkEn5F.jpgEnsemble IncroyabledeUrsprünglich als Demokapelle 2016 aus der Taufe gehoben, hat das chaotisch-symphatische Ensemble Incroyable das Konzept des zahlenstarken Guerilla-Orchesters in alle Bereiche des Möglichen ausgefaltet: In radikaler Offenheit allen Klängen, Künsten und Instrumenten gegenüber pfeift der bläserreiche Wanderzirkus auf Professionalität und zieht daraus einen besonderen Zauber, der balkanesisches, lateinamerikanitätisches, ostfolklorales oder modernopoptypisches ineinanderwirft, zusammenstampft und in Gassenhauerei zu einem bunten Ballon aufbläst - wenn dieser dann platzt, ist es laut genug, und alle haben etwas mitbekommen. Darum geht's! Manege frei!falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/GWPX3W/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/GWPX3W/feedback/SalonOpening Panel (Livestream)Panel2026-04-10T15:30:00+02:0015:3001:00Live-Übertragung des Opening Panels
Livestream of the Opening Panelcableresist26-1316-opening-panel-livestreamdefalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/S7JNQR/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/S7JNQR/feedback/SalonAssemblies on the manifesto (primarily EN)Panel2026-04-10T16:30:00+02:0016:3001:00Let's get into the mood of resistance! We are glad you are here, and we do not just want you to listen. We want you to connect with the people around you, bring in your own experience, share and discuss your perspective on the manifesto.
The Cables of Resistance Manifesto v1.0: https://cableresist.de/#manifest and below
If you prefer to discuss in German, please head to Seminarraum 1.cableresist26-1318-assemblies-on-the-manifesto-primarily-endefalseManifest DE/ENhttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/3QHPSB/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/3QHPSB/feedback/SalonCecilia Rikap on corporate power, geopolitics and how to build digital sovereignty for people and the planet (STREAM)Keynote2026-04-10T18:00:00+02:0018:0000:30Stream of the Keynote by Cecilia Rikapcableresist26-1334-cecilia-rikap-on-corporate-power-geopolitics-and-how-to-build-digital-sovereignty-for-people-and-the-planet-streamCable Resistdefalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/LVSFYN/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/LVSFYN/feedback/SalonNina Scholz über den Tech-Widerstand. Eine Auswertung, aber vor allem ein Ausblick (STREAM)Keynote2026-04-10T18:30:00+02:0018:3000:30Stream of the Keynote by Nina Scholzcableresist26-1337-nina-scholz-uber-den-tech-widerstand-eine-auswertung-aber-vor-allem-ein-ausblick-streamCable Resistdefalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VRPKYV/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VRPKYV/feedback/Seminar room 1Opening Panel (Livestream)Panel2026-04-10T15:30:00+02:0015:3001:00Live-Übertragung des Opening Panels
Livestream of the Opening Panelcableresist26-1317-opening-panel-livestreamdefalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/EJBUNQ/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/EJBUNQ/feedback/Seminar room 1Assemblies zum Manifest (primär: Deutsch)Panel2026-04-10T16:30:00+02:0016:3001:00Lasst uns in Widerstandsstimmung kommen! Wir sind froh, dass ihr da seid, und ihr sollt mitreden. Wir wollen, dass ihr miteinander ins Gespräch kommt, eure Erfahrungen teilt und das Manifest diskutiert.
The Cables of Resistance Manifesto v1.0: https://cableresist.de/de/#manifest and below
Die anderen Räume haben Englisch als Primärsprache.cableresist26-1319-assemblies-zum-manifest-primar-deutschdefalseManifest DE/ENhttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/FVPUKV/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/FVPUKV/feedback/Seminar room 1Cecilia Rikap on corporate power, geopolitics and how to build digital sovereignty for people and the planet (STREAM)Keynote2026-04-10T18:00:00+02:0018:0000:30Stream of the Keynote by Ceculia Rikapcableresist26-1333-cecilia-rikap-on-corporate-power-geopolitics-and-how-to-build-digital-sovereignty-for-people-and-the-planet-streamCable Resistdefalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/PCGQGN/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/PCGQGN/feedback/Seminar room 1Nina Scholz über den Tech-Widerstand. Eine Auswertung, aber vor allem ein Ausblick (STREAM)Keynote2026-04-10T18:30:00+02:0018:3000:30Stream of the Keynote by Nina Scholzcableresist26-1335-nina-scholz-uber-den-tech-widerstand-eine-auswertung-aber-vor-allem-ein-ausblick-streamCable Resistdefalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/TTLTX3/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/TTLTX3/feedback/Lause (arts space)Art (Friday)Art Installation2026-04-10T16:00:00+02:0016:0005:00Splitted Art event taking place in Lause 10 & conference ground
Art Exhibition & Discussions with artists at Lausitzer Straße 10. Starting at April 9th with a vernissage and a panel discussion at Lause 10. The exhibition is up to April 17th.
Additional art works on view during the conference at FMP1.cableresist26-1307-art-friday/media/cableresist26/submissions/RTA7BJ/Finissage_Open-AI-Lab_2025-09-_714La18.webpCable ResistArt Space Lause 10deArt 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
Cornelia Es Said // Why this result? // Collage/Image Transfer und Malerei
Navid Razavi // Algorithmic Gaze // Sound & Video
Sarah Fitterer, Dominik Gangl // Apoteche // Mixed Media Installation
Federico Poni // Belinda // Generated WiFi SSIDs
Jo Tiffe // baised creatures // Mixed Media Installation
Kathrin Hunze // Training your Best Friend // Mixed Media Installation
Helena Nikonole with 868labs.net initiative// off grid wearables // Video to the Work at FMP1
Martin Nadal // FANGØ // Mixed Media Installation
Art Pieces at FMP1 (conference venue, Franz Mehring Platz 1)
Kathrin Hunze // Datahorse // Video
Helena Nikonole with 868labs.net initiative// 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 // Fotos
reincantamento // Online-Archivefalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RTA7BJ/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RTA7BJ/feedback/MünzenbergsaalGood Morning & HousekeepingLightning Talk2026-04-11T10:00:00+02:0010:0000:15Morning Greetings & Houskeepingcableresist26-1296-good-morning-housekeepingCable Resistdefalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/JXEX7H/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/JXEX7H/feedback/MünzenbergsaalSupply Chain Panel: Destruction and Resistance from Mine to DisposalPanel2026-04-11T10:15:00+02:0010:1501:00Supply Chain Panel: Destruction and Resistance from Mining to Disposalcableresist26-1303-supply-chain-panel-destruction-and-resistance-from-mine-to-disposalTommyCaro Weber (Telsa den Hahn Abdrehen)Sarah (freeCongo Collective)Julia Albrecht (WEED)Lars Hirsekorn (VW)deThis panel brings together activists and practitioners from Europe and Africa to discuss the supply chains and resource extraction that feed Big Tech's expansion. This panel will explore the environmental destruction, resource consumption, and human rights abuses that underpin and are often invisibilized in technology production. Drawing on the experiences of human rights and environmental defenders in Germany and the DRC, the panel highlights strategies of resistance across geographies and at all phases of production, and the tools and strategies available to movements fighting Big Tech.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RQ7JYW/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RQ7JYW/feedback/MünzenbergsaalCounting the stones in my computer : an abyssal perspective on the value of timeLightning Talk2026-04-11T11:15:00+02:0011:1500:1510 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 timecableresist26-1235-counting-the-stones-in-my-computer-an-abyssal-perspective-on-the-value-of-timeCoralie GourguechonenThe 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 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 presentation 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.truehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QXWEKV/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QXWEKV/feedback/MünzenbergsaalAI accelerationism and the quest for unlimited growthLightning Talk2026-04-11T11:30:00+02:0011:3000:15Can 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-growthAnnieenCan 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/3VJ3VA/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/3VJ3VA/feedback/MünzenbergsaalKI kurzschliessen: Widerstand gegen neue Datenzentren in der SchweizLightning Talk2026-04-11T11:45:00+02:0011:4500:15In der Schweiz ist ein massiver Ausbau von KI-Infrastruktur im Gange. Doch Widerstand regt sich. Im Rahmen der Kampagne "KI kurzschliessen" wird in der Schweiz an einem Bündnis gegen BigTech gearbeitet, das sich in einem Widerstandscamp Anfangs Juli konsolidieren wird.cableresist26-1205-ki-kurzschliessen-widerstand-gegen-neue-datenzentren-in-der-schweizAufstände der AllmendedeIn den letzten Jahren wurde die Schweiz zu einem Standort mit zahlreichen BigTech-Niederlassungen und lokalen Techfirmen, unter anderem angetrieben durch Hochschulen. Die Dichte von BigTech in der Region Zürich ist heute grösser als im Silicon Valley.
Mit dem derzeitigen KI-Hype ist in der Schweiz nun ein massiver Ausbau von KI-Infrastruktur im Gange. Die Schweiz ist bereits eines der Länder mit den meisten Datenzentren pro Kopf - trotzdem sollen in den nächsten Jahren 10 weitere Datenzentren entstehen. Dem Schweizer Stromnetz droht damit ernsthaft die Überlastung. Gleichzeitig müssen Anwohner*innen um ihre Wasserversorgung fürchten.
Doch Widerstand regt sich. Im Rahmen der Kampagne "KI kurzschliessen" wird in der Schweiz an einem Bündnis gegen BigTech gearbeitet, das sich in einem Widerstandscamp vom 2. bis 9. Juli in der Deutschschweiz konsolidieren wird.truehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VBHBCT/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VBHBCT/feedback/MünzenbergsaalWiderstand gegen ChipfabrikenLightning Talk2026-04-11T12:00:00+02:0012:0000:15Dresden im Siliziumrausch - Die Chips die in Dresden produziert werden, verteilen sich in alle Welt und die Lieferketten reichen um den Globus. Das wollen wir sichtbar machen und für eine menschenwürdige, ökologisch intakte Welt eintreten.cableresist26-1313-widerstand-gegen-chipfabrikenInitiative ÖkologiedeDie Ansiedlungen der Halbleiterindustrie in Dresden betreffen uns alle, denn sie haben weitreichende geopolitische und ökologische Folgen.
Strom, Wasser, Wohnraum und ÖPNV gehen uns alle an, aber die Firmen (ESMC, Global Foundries und Infineon) beteiligen sich trotz Milliardensubventionen nicht und die Stadt hat keine Vorschläge außer Kürzungen im sozialen Bereich. Arbeitsplätze werden gegeneinander ausgespielt, eine rosige Zukunft versprochen und Folgen für die Umwelt ignoriert. Wir wollen Antworten von der Industrie und den Verantwortlichen in Dresden und eine Stadt die für uns alle funktioniert.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/F8A9HU/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/F8A9HU/feedback/MünzenbergsaalData centers partout, data justice nulle partPanel2026-04-11T13:30:00+02:0013:3001:30Activists from across Europe come together to confront Big Tech’s expansion. This panel weaves diverse experiences from France, Spain, and Ireland—sharing strategies, struggles, and solidarities to resist and reimagine a more just digital future.cableresist26-1301-data-centers-partout-data-justice-nulle-partDylan MurphyEdaLuis García ValverdeOla BonatienThis panel brings together activists and researchers from across Europe to unpack the realities of Big Tech’s expansion and the growing resistance against it. From data center opposition in Spain, France and Ireland, and ecological approaches to the permacomputing community in Amsterdam, activists explore how data centers connect to extractivism, fossil fuels, and global supply chains - and how these infrastructures reshape local communities and environments. Drawing on organizing, research, and legal action, the panel highlights strategies of resistance: what has worked, what hasn’t, and how movements can learn from each other.
Rather than formal presentations, this session invites conversation - rooted in lived experience, intrinsic motivations, and cross-movement solidarity. How do we challenge corporate power while building alternatives? How can struggles around technology, ecology, feminism, and anti-capitalism come together?falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/WMNMGP/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/WMNMGP/feedback/MünzenbergsaalTrans Rechte mit Digitalrechten queerenTalk2026-04-11T15:00:00+02:0015:0000:30Trans 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-queerenJyndeEs 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/NCFNNP/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/NCFNNP/feedback/MünzenbergsaalPanel discussion: Big Tech against our Cities - Gentrifizierung, Privatisierung und ÜberwachungPanel2026-04-11T16:30:00+02:0016:3001:00Auf 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-uberwachungMaja-Lee VoigtKatja SchwallerClaudia SeldinDorotheaenfalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/TQKT8W/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/TQKT8W/feedback/MünzenbergsaalOverview panel on labour and techWorkshop2026-04-11T17:30:00+02:0017:3001:00This session brings together perspectives on **collective action** and **labour organising** across Big Tech including corporate employees, content moderation and platform delivery. We will hear from organisers of **Lieferanfo Workers Collective**, **IG Metall** union digital team, **Tiktok strike** organisers, **ver.di union** and **Data Worker's Inquiry**cableresist26-1288-overview-panel-on-labour-and-techSabrina LamersYonatan MillerUnnamed speakerUnnamed speakerUnnamed speakeren**Laurenz Quirin Sachenbacher**: Laurenz is a researcher in the Data Workers' Inquiry, a participatory research project that highlights workers' class composition and supports transnational emancipatory struggles.
**Sonthaya Etschenberg**: ****Ex TikTok trust and safety employee, worker-to-worker organizer and organizing coach at the MATCH program (membership activation, training for change)
**Sabrina Lamers**: union representative and organiser at the labour union IG Metall, usually represents workers from traditional manufacturing industries such as steel, shipbuilding and metal and electrical engineering. However, she and her team operate solely
in IT and software, bringing together blue-collar and white-collar workers and leading union struggles in the transformed working class.
**Merle**: a works council member at Lieferando and an organizer in the Lieferando Workers Collective, building collective power with fellow riders across the platform delivery sector.
**Moderator**
**Daniel Gutiérrez**: trade union secretary at ver.di’s project Zukunft der Mitgliedergewinnung, where he is tasked with developing experimental organizing practices, structures, and techniques in workplaces with high migrant densities, particularly in tech.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RK7QBN/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RK7QBN/feedback/MünzenbergsaalParty - Cable PunkLong workshop2026-04-11T20:00:00+02:0020:0003:00Saturday night’s closing event is the conference after-party CABLE-PUNK! Join us for this special program of audio-visual shows and DJ sets, where extractivist fairytales, poetic code review, anti-fascist post-club scriptwriting, hot beats and silly dances, all intertwine in a quirky Kabelsalat.cableresist26-1312-party-cable-punkJuliusdeCABLE-PUNK
Official conference after-party
2/5BZ (live a/v), eeefff (live a/v), Business Chicken b2b Chicken Business (DJ)
eeefff (Minsk/Berlin) is artistic cooperation / made-up institution / cybernetic political brigade / poetic computations / hacking unit / queer time. Active from 2013, the group works with emotions and affects shaped by technologies and makes software-based projects, publications, networks, and platforms that critically explore digital labour, value extraction, and community formation.
https://eeefff.org/
2/5BZ, has been working as a multimedia artist since 1991, publishing videos, music and literary formats. He has been playing live since 2001, performing in clubs, festivals, squats and exhibitions under the motto "NO Touristic NO Exotic“. 2/5BZ’s performance "No ExoticAI" explores the official information exoticized throughout history and the relationship between the recent infoxication Staatsräson and artificial intelligence.
http://2-5bz.com
Legend has it that in a remote castle, the energies of Business Chicken and Chicken Business intersected, unleashing a rave that shook the very foundations. Since that fateful day, they've been doing business as usual - serving up big bangers that'll have you sweating on the dance floor. From global bass to four-to-the-floor, Latin and Hyperpop elements, their sets are a wild ride through soundscapes.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KH3UPE/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KH3UPE/feedback/SalonKI-Greenwashing: Wie Tech Bros & Fossile Industrie den Klimakollaps befeuern - und was wir dagegen tun könnenWorkshop2026-04-11T10:00:00+02:0010:0001:00Der 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-ki-greenwashing-wie-tech-bros-fossile-industrie-den-klimakollaps-befeuern-und-was-wir-dagegen-tun-konnen/media/cableresist26/submissions/XNDGPC/Bild1_fuVrUaj.jpgMoritz, urgewaldMarie-Luise AbshagendeObwohl 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 Gegenoffensifalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/XNDGPC/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/XNDGPC/feedback/SalonEnde Gelände dem fossil-faschistischen Big TechWorkshop2026-04-11T11:00:00+02:0011:0001:00Das Aktionsbündnis Ende Gelände organisiert seit 2015 Aktionen massenhaften Zivilen Ungehorsams gegen fossile Energien. In diesem Workshop zeigen wir die Zusammenhänge des Gaseinstiegs in den USA, Europa und Deutschland mit Big Tech auf. Wir pitchen euch, wie eine Ende Gelände Aktion zum Thema aussehen könnte und wollen weitere Widerstandsformen mit euch entwickeln. Auf geht's, ab geht's!cableresist26-1127-ende-gelande-dem-fossil-faschistischen-big-tech/media/cableresist26/submissions/RRXKUV/signal-2026-01-14-181901_002_ioU4xmy.jpegEnde GeländedeAktuell ruft Ende Gelände zu Aktionstagen gegen fossiles Gas vom 28.-30.05.2026 im Ruhrgebiet auf. Denn weltweit, aber auch in Deutschland, bauen Regierungen massiv Gaskraftwerke und Gas-Infrastruktur aus. Ein Grund ist dabei der enorme Energieverbrauch von KI und Big Tech.
In diesem Workshop zeigen wir die Zusammenhänge des Gaseinstiegs in den USA, Europa und Deutschland mit Big Tech auf. Wir schauen auf den schon bestehenden Widerstand und pitchen euch, wie eine Ende Gelände Aktion zum Thema aussehen könnte. Im Anschluss wollen wir gemeinsam unsere Aktion mit euch weiterdenken und uns kreative Formen von Widerstand gegen Big Tech ausdenken und diskutieren.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RRXKUV/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RRXKUV/feedback/SalonThe Kill Cloud as Corporate Takeover: The Convergence of The Military, Venture Capitalism and Technology Start-UpsLong workshop2026-04-11T13:30:00+02:0013:3001:30Military 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-upsTatiana BazzichelliLisa LingJoana MollenThe 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/MTLBX8/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/MTLBX8/feedback/SalonNavigating censorship & digital exclusion: what we can learn from adult content creatorsTalk2026-04-11T15:00:00+02:0015:0000:30In 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-creatorsRaksha MuthukumarenTech 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VBQPXX/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VBQPXX/feedback/SalonPlatform work as an answer to what? Understanding migrant workers' life worlds beyond the gigLightning Talk2026-04-11T16:30:00+02:0016:3000:30This 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-gigBarbaraenThis 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VUBTA3/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VUBTA3/feedback/SalonWithin or against? The role of IT workers in the fight against big techTalk2026-04-11T17:00:00+02:0017:0000:30We 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-techValentin Nieblerdefalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/EGJRXQ/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/EGJRXQ/feedback/SalonKI‑Überwachung im öffentlichen Raum: Irgendwas zwischen Heilsbringer für die Polizei und RepressionstoolTalk2026-04-11T17:30:00+02:0017:3000:30In diesem Vortrag wird beleuchtet, was die Ausweitung der KI-Überwachung im öffentlichen Raum konkret bedeutet. Er bietet eine Übersicht über die Risiken des Einsatzes von KI-gestützter Überwachung und stellt politische Vorhaben auf Länder- und Bundesebene vor, die darauf abzielen, den öffentlichen Raum mithilfe dieser Technologie umfassend erfassbar und kontrollierbar zu machen.cableresist26-1120-ki-uberwachung-im-offentlichen-raum-irgendwas-zwischen-heilsbringer-fur-die-polizei-und-repressionstool/media/cableresist26/submissions/9GK99Y/2400px_251015-Biometrische-Uber_0PyTGZZ.jpgPia SombetzkideKünstliche Intelligenz verspricht, die öffentliche Sicherheit zu revolutionieren: Echtzeit‑Gesichtserkennung, Predictive‑Policing und autonome Drohnen sollen Verbrechen verhindern, bevor sie geschehen. Doch diese Technologien bergen das Risiko, den öffentlichen Raum in ein allgegenwärtiges Überwachungsnetz zu verwandeln.
Dieser Vortrag führt in die konkreten Risiken ein, die mit dem Einsatz von KI-Überwachung einhergehen, erklärt an welchen rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen aktuell geschraubt wird, um den Einsatz möglich zu machen und zeigt anhand konkreter Einsatzkontexte, u.a. aus Hamburg, Mannheim und Frankfurt, wie der Einsatz stadtpolitisch diskutiert wird und welche Risiken sich in konkrete Gefahren für Menschen im öffentlichen Raum übersetzen.
Abschließend gibt er einen Ausblick auf Aktivitäten des Bündnis "Gesichtserkennen stoppen!" und welche Möglichkeiten des Zusammenschluss sich für Bewegungen anzeigen.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/9GK99Y/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/9GK99Y/feedback/SalonPublic Space Is Not For SaleTalk2026-04-11T18:00:00+02:0018:0000:30Wer in der Stadt heute den Kopf hebt, blickt selten ins Freie – sondern in Bildschirme, die sich Fassaden einverleiben, Energie fressen und Aufmerksamkeit verkaufen. Der öffentliche Raum gehört immer weniger den Menschen, immer mehr den Marken. Aber es geht auch anders – für Urbanität ohne Dauerberieselung und Konsumterror. Holen wir uns die Stadt zurück!cableresist26-1069-public-space-is-not-for-sale/media/cableresist26/submissions/LLVGCK/chris-kursikowski-LBmKfdAdUY0-u_dwNpyUO.jpg5PR33deImmer mehr Werbeflächen im Stadtbild sind für die Mehrheit der Menschen seit Jahrzehnten ein stetig wachsendes Ärgernis. Doch mit dem Siegeszug der sogenannten Digital-Out-Of-Home-Werbung erreicht diese Kommerzialisierung des öffentlichen Raums eine neue Qualität.
Allgegenwärtige City-Lights und andere Screens schreien uns an jeder Straßenecke blinkend und oft in Form von Bewegtbild ungefragt Markenbotschaften entgegen. Dabei blenden sie uns, versperren uns den Blick, fressen Unmengen an Strom und machen die Nacht zum Tageslicht. Die von Big Playern wie Ströer und JCDecaux als Smart City vermarktete digitale Außenwerbung verwandelt unsere Städte in Dauerwerbesendungen. Was als Innovationssprung verkauft werden soll, ist in Wahrheit nur Lichtverschmutzung, Klimabelastung und Verkehrsrisiko. So wird der eigentlich allen Bürgern zustehende Raum zur Renditezone für wenige Konzerne.
Gegen diesen "Fortschritt" regt sich Widerstand. Hier in Deutschland ist das Volksbegehren Hamburg Werbefrei zwar zuletzt gescheitert, doch von Paris bis São Paulo entstehen werbefreie Zonen, kritisiert kreatives Ad Busting den Ausverkauf der Öffentlichkeit und es gründen sich Initiativen, um die Stadt zurückzuerobern. So wie jetzt wieder in [Berlin](https://berlin-werbefrei.de/).
Der Talk möchte einen Überblick geben und damit Inspiration sowie Mut liefern: Für eine Bewegung lebendiger, lebenswerter Städte, die wieder uns gehören – und nicht Sponsoren.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/LLVGCK/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/LLVGCK/feedback/SalonStrategies to Resist - Building Unlikely Alliances and Resilient Coalitions against Big TechLong workshop2026-04-11T19:30:00+02:0019:3001:30How do we resist big tech collaboratively with strong alliances and resilient coalitions?cableresist26-1295-strategies-to-resist-building-unlikely-alliances-and-resilient-coalitions-against-big-techCable ResistUnnamed speakerdeHow do we resist big tech collaboratively with strong alliances and resilient coalitions? This workshop offers a range of methodologies to better understand your function in the wider movement against big tech in Germany and transnationally. We are here to build bridges and get organised and will work with mapping methods and power. The workshop is designed interactively to support you and your organisations to intervene and collaborate more strategically. Any experience welcome.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/9M9TPA/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/9M9TPA/feedback/Seminar room 1Acid CloudsTalk2026-04-11T10:00:00+02:0010:0000:30Acid 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/media/cableresist26/submissions/E7PQDL/acid-clouds_niels-schrader_Blt_NU50kgK.webpNiels SchraderenThe 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/E7PQDL/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/E7PQDL/feedback/Seminar room 1Resisting the Data Center Boom in Latin AmericaTalk2026-04-11T10:30:00+02:0010:3000:30Big Tech promotes data centers as progress, but their expansion into Latin America reveals territorial violence: massive facilities consuming more energy than cities, draining water, bypassing environmental laws, and erasing indigenous rights. This talk examines how platform companies violates democracy, environmental protection, and community sovereignty for profit.cableresist26-1261-resisting-the-data-center-boom-in-latin-america/media/cableresist26/submissions/3D7R3L/DSC02242-scaled_avpFbTh_TTj8Mfk.webpLuã CruzJosé Renato LaranjeiraenBig Tech companies often frame data centers as symbols of progress and digital development. In Latin America, however, their expansion reveals a pattern of territorial violence, environmental harm, and systematic disregard for community and Indigenous rights.
This talk examines cases from Brazil and the region to show how hyperscale data centers consume massive amounts of energy and water while advancing through weakened environmental licensing, regulatory shortcuts, and limited public participation. Despite their scale, these projects are frequently approved without robust impact assessments or respect for the right to prior consultation.
The talk argues that data center expansion is a political issue. By leveraging narratives of innovation, platform companies externalize environmental costs, deepen inequalities, and undermine democratic governance and territorial sovereignty. The session invites participants to rethink digital infrastructure beyond extractive logics and to consider regulatory approaches centered on environmental justice, democracy, and community rights in the Global South.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/3D7R3L/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/3D7R3L/feedback/Seminar room 1Circular Economies, Recycled ColoniesTalk2026-04-11T11:00:00+02:0011:0000:30This 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/media/cableresist26/submissions/R8LJC9/CablesOfResistance_mdRevTb.pngStephen CornfordenThe 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/R8LJC9/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/R8LJC9/feedback/Seminar room 1Data centres and the imperialist casinoTalk2026-04-11T11:30:00+02:0011:3000:30This 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-casinoVinit RavishankarenMedia 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/8HPLM9/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/8HPLM9/feedback/Seminar room 1Boom, Bust, Quit: The Technology Hype Cycle As Capitalism's Latest FrontierTalk2026-04-11T13:30:00+02:0013:3000:30We 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-frontierAlex DurrantenIn *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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/DULTBL/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/DULTBL/feedback/Seminar room 1Confronting Military Technoscience: Academic and Activist EngagementsTalk2026-04-11T14:00:00+02:0014:0000:30This 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-engagementsNil UzunJutta WeberenThis 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/BHURD7/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/BHURD7/feedback/Seminar room 1Big Tech’s global lobby playbookTalk2026-04-11T14:30:00+02:0014:3000:30Big Tech has taken corporate lobbying to a whole new level. These companies have an influence that even Big Tobacco and Big Oil could only dream of.
In this session we will dive into examples across the world of Big Tech lobbying, and highlight how tech giants are driving EU deregulation.cableresist26-1340-big-tech-s-global-lobby-playbookMargaridaenBig Tech has taken corporate lobbying to a whole new level. These companies have an influence that even Big Tobacco and Big Oil could only dream of.
The tech giants have bottomless pockets and a powerful playbook they deploy to influence and shape laws all around the world. The strategies set out in the ‘Big Tech Lobby Playbook’ are not unique to Big Tech, but they are being employed in ways that are distinctive to the tech giants. These companies don’t just engage with lawmakers and policy processes – they shape the very environment in which laws are imagined and debated.
In this session we will dive into examples across the world of Big Tech lobbying, and highlight how tech giants are driving EU deregulation.
Margarida Silva is a researcher at SOMO, a research NGO investigating multinationals.
Bram Vranken is a campaigner and researcher at Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), a Brussels-based lobby watchdog.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/FFVVSU/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/FFVVSU/feedback/Seminar room 1Misogyny by design: Why resisting Big Tech requires feminist countergovernanceTalk2026-04-11T15:00:00+02:0015:0000:30Big 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-countergovernanceCarine RoosenBig 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/FB9FGC/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/FB9FGC/feedback/Seminar room 1Reverse engineering to support workers rightsTalk2026-04-11T16:30:00+02:0016:3000:30We 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-rightsSimone Robutti (Tech Workers Coalition)enReversing.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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/JLJY9Y/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/JLJY9Y/feedback/Seminar room 1Why Work? Shifting the Lens from What Work Demands to What Workers DesireTalk2026-04-11T17:00:00+02:0017:0000:30My 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-desireSana AhmadenFuture 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/XR3RLV/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/XR3RLV/feedback/Seminar room 1Infrastrukturextraktivismus. Wie Big Tech unsere Stromnetze & Städte ausbeutet und wie wir den Parlamentarismus nutzen, um Rechenzentren zu bekämpfen.Talk2026-04-11T17:30:00+02:0017:3001:00Die dramatischen Auswirkungen von BigTechs Rechenzentren zeigen sich vor Ort: Energiehunger und Platzbedarf von Rechenzentren wirken sich auf Städte wie Frankfurt und Berlin aus. Wir decken die Operationslogik von Big Tech auf und zeigen, wie die parlamentarische Linke genutzt werden kann, um wichtige Informationen von den unterschiedlichen Ebenen zu bekommen und damit Proteste zu organisieren.cableresist26-1204-infrastrukturextraktivismus-wie-big-tech-unsere-stromnetze-stadte-ausbeutet-und-wie-wir-den-parlamentarismus-nutzen-um-rechenzentren-zu-bekampfenNiklas SteinkeIndra JungblutSonja LemkeFabian HalfardeSteigende Strompreise durch den hohen Energieverbrauch, ein enormer Wasserbedarf oder der zunehmende Einsatz fossiler Energiequellen passiert nicht weit entfernt in den USA. Deutschland ist das europäische Land mit den meisten Rechenzentren 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 die massiven Auswirkungen als Energiehunger und Platzbedarf. Indra (AlgorithmWatch), Fabian und Niklas (Wissenschaft) zeigen, wie sich der massive Rechenzentrumausbau auf Strompreise, Netze und Flächen auswirkt. Sie decken mit dem Begriff des Infrastrukturextraktivismus ein Muster auf und zeigen den Zusammenhang mit Big Tech.
Gleichzeitig legt die Bundesregierung eine Rechenzentrenstrategie – die Schaffung einer „KI-Nation“ – vor, wobei auch das immer wieder verwendete Stichwort „digitale Souveränität“ nicht heißt, sich von BigTech loszusagen. Dabei werden auf lokaler Ebene Grundstücke vergeben und über Bauleitplanungen, Vergabeverfahren und Netzanschlüsse möglich gemacht. Wie kann die parlamentarische Linke genutzt werden, um dieser Fehlentwicklung etwas entgegenzusetzen? Sonja (MdB) zeigt, wie privilegierter Zugang zu Informationen und die Möglichkeiten des Parlamentarismus und das Wissen über Planungen der Bundesregierung sinnvoll genutzt werden können, um Protest zielgerichtet zu organisieren.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/AQEKRA/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/AQEKRA/feedback/Seminar room 1Disruptiver und kreativer Aktivismus gegen die IndustrieWorkshop2026-04-11T19:30:00+02:0019:3001:00Ein interaktiver Workshop, in dem wir planen, wie man Industrieunternehmen lokal herausfordern und friedliche, ökologische und vergesellschaftete Produktion erkämpfen kann!cableresist26-1338-disruptiver-und-kreativer-aktivismus-gegen-die-industrie/media/cableresist26/submissions/WJRRFX/unserlidl-3-scaled_EkexrOl_CYC_btYnqE3.webpTobi RosswogdeEin interaktiver Workshop, in dem wir planen, wie man Industrieunternehmen lokal herausfordern und friedliche, ökologische und vergesellschaftete Produktion erkämpfen kann! Tobi hat die Proteste um die Verkehrswendestadt Wolfsburg für eine Konversion von VW mitorganisiert.
(https://verkehrswendestadt.de/)
Er baut gerade die Kampagne „Friedensstadt Osnabrück” gegen die Konversion eines VW-Werks zur Panzerproduktion auf (https://friedensstadt.osnabrueck.de/de/).
Zuletzt leitete er die Kampagne „Unser Lidl” gegen die Schwarzgruppe, die aktuell Regionalzentren in Lübbenau ausbaut und ein deutsches Silicon Valley will. (https://unserlidl.de/)
Protest gegen die Industrie ist ein dickes Brett und gelingt vor allem durch Disruption im Alltag und humorvolle Aufmerksamkeit.
In diesem Workshop diskutiert Tobi Erfahrungen aus Wolfsburg, Osnabrück und Heilbronn und plant mit den Teilnehmenden Aktionen für ihre lokalen Kämpfe gegen Big Tech.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/WJRRFX/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/WJRRFX/feedback/Seminar room 2From Big Oil to Big Tech: the power of cloud giants in sustainability transitionTalk2026-04-11T10:00:00+02:0010:0000:30Big 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-transitionSilvia WekoenBig 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/GLXFFF/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/GLXFFF/feedback/Seminar room 2From Stargate Data Centres to the Indigenous Arctic – tracking AI's toxic supply chain.Talk2026-04-11T10:30:00+02:0010:3000:30AI’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-chainAlistair AlexanderenBased 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" frameworkfalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/CFA9NN/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/CFA9NN/feedback/Seminar room 2Algorithmen säen, Konzerne ernten: Der digitale Griff nach unserem EssenTalk2026-04-11T13:30:00+02:0013:3000:30Big Tech erobert die Landwirtschaft: Auf Plattformen wie Climate Field View sammelt Bayer Daten von 90 Millionen Hektar – betrieben auf Cloud-Systemen von Amazon, Microsoft und Google. KI-Algorithmen entscheiden über Aussaat und Ernte, Lock-in-Effekte schaffen neue Abhängigkeiten. Der Beitrag zeigt diese Verflechtungen und entwickelt Ansatzpunkte für Widerstand und Allianzen zwischen Agrar- und Ancableresist26-1130-algorithmen-saen-konzerne-ernten-der-digitale-griff-nach-unserem-essen/media/cableresist26/submissions/ZNXFRR/precision_farming_with_drones_s_Ouk9JRI.pngLouisa PrausedeWährend zentrale Individuen aus den Big Tech Konzernen eher für Allmachtsfantasien im Weltall bekannt sind, investieren dieselben Konzerne leise und systematisch in einen der grundlegendsten Sektoren menschlicher Existenz: unsere Nahrungsmittelproduktion. Amazon, Microsoft und Google sie bauen ihre Konzernmacht immer mehr über ihre Cloud-Infrastrukturdienste aus. Auf diese greifen auch die großen Agrarkonzerne zurück, die in den letzten Jahren massiv in die Entwicklung und den Verkauf von digitalen Technologien für die Landwirtschaft investiert haben. Auf Plattformen wie Climate Field View (Bayer) werden bereits Daten von 90 Millionen Hektar Agrarfläche gesammelt – das Fünffache der gesamten deutschen Landwirtschaftsfläche. Diese Plattformen laufen auf den Cloud-Systemen von Amazon, Microsoft und Google, während KI-Algorithmen zunehmend Empfehlungen über Aussaat, Düngung und Ernte geben. Elon Musks Starlink vernetzt bereits Landmaschinen von John Deere, während chinesische Tech-Konzerne wie Alibaba und Tencent KI-Chatbots für die Landwirtschaft entwicke
Dieser Beitrag analysiert, wie die Tech-Giganten mit den großen Agrarkonzernen wie Bayer, John Deere und Corteva verflochten sind und welche Gefahren dies für den Aufbau eines nachhaltigen Agrar-Ernährungssystem mit sich bringt: Lock-in-Effekte fesseln Landwirtinnen an proprietäre Systeme, landwirtschaftliches Wissen wird durch algorithmenbasierte Black Boxes ersetzt, und die Datenhoheit liegt bei den Konzernen.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/ZNXFRR/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/ZNXFRR/feedback/Seminar room 2KI, Big-Tech und Klimahölle: Wie die Bundesregierung noch mehr Rechenzentren nach Deutschland holen möchte - und warum es dringend Widerstand brauchtTalk2026-04-11T14:00:00+02:0014:0000:30Big 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-brauchtJulian BothedeIn 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QKQRCD/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QKQRCD/feedback/Seminar room 2Algorithmic Violence and Mexican Feminist Resistance on XTalk2026-04-11T14:30:00+02:0014:3000:30Digital 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/media/cableresist26/submissions/BTCNQK/20.20.17_pGrEiyr.pngElisa Flores WeissenThis 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/BTCNQK/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/BTCNQK/feedback/Seminar room 2Disputing future imaginaries through feminist technologies: proposals from ArgentinaTalk2026-04-11T15:00:00+02:0015:0000:30Argentina’s feminist movements, long at the forefront of rights expansion, confront AI amid crisis and backlash. As free AI tools spread under austerity and platformized survival, technology becomes a political terrain. This talk asks explicitly: appropriation or resistance? We present feminist initiatives that challenge Big Tech while reworking AI for collective futures from the Global South.cableresist26-1086-disputing-future-imaginaries-through-feminist-technologies-proposals-from-argentinaCandela Villalonga Zalazar/Carmín Rubí Ríos FukelmanenIn this talk, we want to present initiatives from feminist spaces in Argentina that are bringing together a critique of Big Tech, while proposing forms of interacting with technologies that are for the benefit of the community. We want to contribute to the debate on ethical concerns regarding IA usage from a Global South and feminist perspective. Furthermore, we aim to contribute to post-capitalistic future imaginaries, where technologies are produced by and for the communities.
Feminist movements have historically positioned Argentina at the forefront of rights expansion in Latin America, not only through institutional victories but through the ability to turn private suffering into collective political struggle. From labor rights and political participation to the green tide, feminist mobilization secured the right to abortion and pushed long-silenced issues (such as menstruation, care, and the everyday violence of household indebtedness) onto the public agenda. Today, this legacy unfolds in a context of deep economic crisis, growing social fragmentation, and a neo-fascist drift that openly attacks feminist, queer, and collective forms of organization.
It is on these grounds that technology emerges as a central political terrain. In a country marked by austerity, time scarcity, and platformized survival, digital infrastructures (and AI in particular) are increasingly woven into everyday life. This raises a pressing question that structures our intervention: where is the linfalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/WBDAWT/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/WBDAWT/feedback/Seminar room 2How can we use the law to advance a vision of the world we want?Lightning Talk2026-04-11T17:00:00+02:0017:0000:15The legal risks of self-hosting and age verification efforts, and why they should be resisted. Understanding the law while not viewing it as absolute or ethical, and using this knowledge to your advantage when engaging with technology and building digital networks of resilience and solidarity.cableresist26-1341-how-can-we-use-the-law-to-advance-a-vision-of-the-world-we-wantAlex Stefanescuenfalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QSCMKP/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QSCMKP/feedback/Seminar room 2Lernen von Deutsche Wohnen & Co. Enteignen! Organisierung und Kampagne für Digitale VergesellschaftungTalk2026-04-11T17:30:00+02:0017:3000:30Lernen von Deutsche Wohnen Enteignen! Organisierung und Kampagne für Digitale Vergesellschaftungcableresist26-1310-lernen-von-deutsche-wohnen-co-enteignen-organisierung-und-kampagne-fur-digitale-vergesellschaftung/media/cableresist26/submissions/KVSMTL/Screenshot_2025-09-28_123357_nv7A0bk.pngRikeMax Wilkendefalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KVSMTL/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KVSMTL/feedback/Seminar room 2Redscout24 - Zur digitalen WohnungsfrageTalk2026-04-11T18:00:00+02:0018:0000:30Wer 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-wohnungsfrageSandraLeodeIm 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/9LVYR7/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/9LVYR7/feedback/Seminar room 2Purge PalantirWorkshop2026-04-11T19:30:00+02:0019:3001:00An open discussion and exchange about organizing against Palantir and big tech in the US and abroad.cableresist26-1329-purge-palantir/media/cableresist26/submissions/UW7MQW/DemocracyNow_02_dKREXHP_fp7qKg_CsiIZ5Q.webpKay (PurgePalantir)Jeff (#teslatakedown)enAn open discussion and exchange about organizing against Palantir and big tech in the US and abroad.
Jeff and Kay are organizers working with grassroots organizations, activist collectives, and labor unions in the US to slow authoritarian consolidation and curtail the power of Big Tech.
Jeff is part of the #teslatakedown core team
https://www.teslatakedown.com/
Kay is a team member of PurgePalantir
https://purgepalantir.com/truehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/UW7MQW/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/UW7MQW/feedback/Seminar room 3Wie wehrt man sich gegen Rechenzentren – Fishbowl-Diskussion über Herausforderungen und ChancenWorkshop2026-04-11T10:00:00+02:0010:0001:00Welche 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/media/cableresist26/submissions/WTVSMX/2025113_Symbolbild_KI_Nachhalti_p9XB9IY.pngKira Mössinger, AlgorithmWatchdeDie 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/WTVSMX/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/WTVSMX/feedback/Seminar room 3Cloud Factories: Imagining alternative futures for landscapes threatened by data centresWorkshop2026-04-11T11:00:00+02:0011:0001:00This interactive workshop will give insights into an ongoing artistic research project focused on the destructive impact of hyperscale data centre construction on landscapes and ecosystems. Inspired by visual and narrative materials unearthed by the research and participants’ own experiences, we will develop a series of zines.cableresist26-1094-cloud-factories-imagining-alternative-futures-for-landscapes-threatened-by-data-centres/media/cableresist26/submissions/QL3FNW/Untitled-12_pSIwBsH_SjiE3KS_QKp1BLS.webpPapertrailenCloud 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 looming arrival of a hyperscale data centre by Meta: As plans to build a 200MW facility near the rural Dutch town of Zeewolde became public in 2022, a coalition of residents, activists and farmers mobilised to stop the project. Soon after, authorities in Talavera de la Reina, a city in a drought-affected and economically deprived region in Central Spain announced that Meta is planning build a large data centre on the outskirts of the city. Construction is due to start soon.
What happens to landscapes and more-than-human lives when the ‘Cloud hits the ground’? And which alternative futures do we envision for territories being transformed into Big Tech ‘Cloud’ factories?
Inspired by insights into our ongoing research covering data centre sites in Spain and the Netherlands, we will collaboratively develop a series of zines that shed light on data centres’ destructive effects on landscapes and ecosystems and dream about non-extractivist designations for such territories.
Through this exercise, we will explore how to expand our research to other sites and ways of seeing.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QL3FNW/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QL3FNW/feedback/Seminar room 3The Atlas Network – How Right-Wing/Neoliberal Networks Are Paving the Way for a Fascist TakeoverTalk2026-04-11T13:30:00+02:0013:3000:30The Atlas Network and its affiliated foundations and think tanks are preparing a neoliberal-fascist takeover. This lecture presents the modus operandi of the Atlas Network and uses the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025—which was instrumental in Trump’s rise to power—to illustrate how a far-right structural framework operates.cableresist26-1339-the-atlas-network-how-right-wing-neoliberal-networks-are-paving-the-way-for-a-fascist-takeoverNoAtlas ProjectenUsing the example of Javier Milei in Argentina—an Atlas fellow and Heritage poster boy—the talk demonstrates how a power grab and neoliberal attacks on the welfare state, labor unions, and workers rights might unfold. Finally, the presentation will also address the German Atlas Initiative, the far-right extremists involved in it, and their project in Germany. The connection between neoliberal and right-wing think tanks and the rise of the radical right will be examined.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/H7FUMF/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/H7FUMF/feedback/Seminar room 3OUR BODIES - OUR DATA - OUR CHOICE: Everybodys FutureTalk2026-04-11T14:00:00+02:0014:0000:30To "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/media/cableresist26/submissions/KAJAV9/nawi_aD8HikA_yCg3LWY_3VbyCvl.webpemskisvenskiJoanita NajjukoenThis talk will be given by Najjuko Joanita (Joey) is a Pan-African feminist activist and organiser committed to the work of weaving new worlds. She interrogates how systems of power are built and sustained, tracing the ways global structures of wealth and decision-making shape the everyday lives of African women and marginalised communities. Her activism centers African feminist traditions of critique and imagination, positioning them as essential tools for dismantling colonial legacies and reimagining just futures. Najjuko’s political calling is as much about inquiry as it is about collective liberation. She continues to build bridges across movements, cultivating spaces of care, resistance, and solidarity. Drawn to joy, creativity, and curiosity, she gathers with others unafraid to stir up beautiful trouble in pursuit of liberation — a living reminder that alternative futures are built not only through struggle, but also through nurturing life, play, and care in the everyday.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KAJAV9/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KAJAV9/feedback/Seminar room 3Technologie und Gender: Strategien für eine feministische Zukunft!Workshop2026-04-11T14:30:00+02:0014:3001:00In 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/media/cableresist26/submissions/7N8UFU/queere-fete-logo-klein_rPxchBr.pngCarlaEmmaKathedeWir 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/7N8UFU/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/7N8UFU/feedback/Seminar room 3Works Councils in Tech - a growing works council movementLong workshop2026-04-11T16:30:00+02:0016:3001:00In Berlin, since 2020 over 30 companies in various platform, app, and software development sectors have elected works councils for the first time, representing the interests of over 20,000 tech workers from six continents. In this session, we will tell the story of these works council formations and explore the opportunities and limitations of works council activities.cableresist26-1207-works-councils-in-tech-a-growing-works-council-movementDaniel WeidmannenAfter the startup sector was considered a "no-man's-land" for co-determination in the first two decades of the 21st century, where employee participation was limited to informal chats over fruit and foosball, and the establishment of works councils was merely a pipe dream, the employees of more than 30 Berlin offices of well-known startups and scale-ups have, relatively suddenly, elected works councils for the first time since the late 2010s.
The motives for these works council initiatives are diverse. Often, it was anger over opaque and gender-discriminatory compensation, or growing concern about job security and declining career prospects. But frustration with the not-so-flat hierarchies of the tech industry also played a significant role.
After some initial resistance, these works councils have become an integral part of Berlin's industrial landscape. However, the day-to-day realities of co-determination are revealing the limitations of the elected bodies' legal rights, and frustrations are mounting.
In the workshop, after a brief presentation of the history of this small council movement, we will discuss the limits and perspectives of works council work with two works council members.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QUVSKA/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QUVSKA/feedback/Seminar room 3Die Google-Proteste in Kreuzberg 2016-2018: Rückblick und AnalyseTalk2026-04-11T17:30:00+02:0017:3000:30Um folgende Fragen wird es u.a. gehen:
Aus welchen Bedingungen sind die Proteste hervorgegangen? Was hat sie charakterisiert?
Welche Analysen und Theorien des digitalen Kapitalismus’ haben sie informiert und unterfüttert? Wie aktuell sind diese heute?
Welche Protestpraktiken haben sie genutzt oder sogar hervorgebracht? Welche Perspektiven auf den digitalen Kapitalismus sind ihnen entsprungen?cableresist26-1146-die-google-proteste-in-kreuzberg-2016-2018-ruckblick-und-analyse/media/cableresist26/submissions/SKCERB/IMG_20260116_120210_233_EiJTee_ZYvgWXY.webpKonstantindeEnde November 2016 kündigte Google an, in einer Halle eines ehemaligen Umspannwerks mitten in Kreuzberg 36 einen sogenannten Google Campus für Startups zu eröffnen. Die Neuigkeit erreichte die Nachbarschaft in einer Zeit des Aufschwungs von stadtpolitischem Aktivismus gegen Verdrängung von Wohn- und Gewerbemieter*innen aus dem bei Immobilieninvestor*innen begehrten Kiez. Schnell formierte sich Widerstand gegen die Pläne des Technologiekonzerns, dessen Zuzug zurecht als gefährliche Schwelle der andauernden Gentrifizierung Kreuzbergs gesehen wurde. Die Google-Proteste begannen. Für knapp zwei Jahre prägten Aktionen gegen den geplanten Campus den Kreuzberger Alltag und waren regelmäßiger Bestandteil der Berichterstattung über den Kiez und seine lebendige stadtpolitische Bewegung. Ende Oktober 2018 gab Google schließlich auf, stampfte die Campus-Pläne ein und übergab nach abgeschlossenem Umbau ein Jahr später die Räumlichkeiten im Umspannwerk an zwei sogenannte ”Sozialunternehmen“. Der Rückzug des Konzerns wurde als großer Erfolg der Bewegung gefeiert und international rezipiert.
Der Vortrag wirft einen Blick zurück auf die Google-Proteste und zeichnet deren Verlauf anhand von Erfahrungen der Beteiligten, von Medienberichten, politischen Druck- und Bilderzeugnissen, Fotos, Videomaterial und wissenschaftlichen Publikationen nach. Mit einem Abstand von fast zehn Jahren nach Beginn der Proteste sollen diese eingeordnet und kritisch befragt werden.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/SKCERB/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/SKCERB/feedback/Seminar room 3Why the public debate around automated mobility is practically nonexistent and the academic debate rigged.Talk2026-04-11T18:00:00+02:0018:0000:15A talk about current developments in automated driving from an industry and academia perspective. The talk will go into likely urban mobility impacts, how we can demand societal benefit and build social movements to prevent a private grab of public transport.cableresist26-1104-why-the-public-debate-around-automated-mobility-is-practically-nonexistent-and-the-academic-debate-riggedElmerenAutomated mobility is being funded with astronomic amounts of research funding, with one single Horizon Europe call for projects for October 2026 to be rewarded with 100 million Euros. Why, however, is there so little public debate around automated driving? This is not a coincidence and moments of resistance have occurred in San Francisco and Los Angeles. However, widespread resistance is not occurring due to a lacking societal learning and participation process - whether or not automated driving is a negative or positive thing is, to wide society, unknown. One thing is clear, though: the automobile industry is HORNY for automated driving and the academy is following suit, producing work around the topic that is highly speculative and selective.
This is a good reason to get suspicious. With spreading automated taxi services moving from testing to operation outside of Europe and realistic scenarios consolidating, it's time for an overview: what should we expect, and how can we demand for this technology to be used to benefit society.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/FKB3SC/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/FKB3SC/feedback/Seminar room 3De-Urbanising Health: Tech Libertarianism and Biotechnological Experimentation on Roatán IslandLightning Talk2026-04-11T18:15:00+02:0018:1500:15This 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-islandNiloufar VadiatideDrawing 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/C7QKYK/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/C7QKYK/feedback/Seminar room 7compost.party - permacomputing and feminist infrastructure from scrapsWorkshop2026-04-11T13:30:00+02:0013:3001:00Every 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/media/cableresist26/submissions/LYFVDH/phone-with-solar-panel_zwSeKXK_wTzISVg.webparneMalteenThe 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/LYFVDH/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/LYFVDH/feedback/Seminar room 7Understanding Digital Threats to Democracy - the alt-right, disinformation and anti-BlacknessWorkshop2026-04-11T14:30:00+02:0014:3001:00In this workshop we will deepen our understanding of the role that internet technologies and Imperial power plays in the spread of misogynistic and anti-immigrant discourses. By collectively mapping examples we will build a better picture of how these platform affordances operate. And we will apply Black Feminism as an intervention to equip communities with tools to fight back.cableresist26-1289-understanding-digital-threats-to-democracy-the-alt-right-disinformation-and-anti-blacknesstèmítópé lasade-andersonEmmanuelle AndrewsenWe know that Big Tech profits from the spread of disinformation, anti-Blackness and violence against women and girls. But how?
In this workshop we will deepen our understanding of the role that internet technologies, governance and Imperial power plays in the spread of misogynistic and anti-immigrant discourses. By collectively mapping examples - such as the far-right riots that swept across the UK in the Summer of 2024 - we will build a better picture of how these platform affordances operate in pursuit of ethno-nationalist white supremacy and work to mobilise an ever-expanded base, including through unlikely allies like the creation of new women’s-led subsets of the fascist movement (like the ‘Pink Ladies’).
Rather than moving to despair, settling on tech-centric solutions, or advocating for strengthened criminal legal frameworks, we will turn to Black Feminism and consider what this ideology makes possible for upholding life-affirming alternatives.
How have contemporary forms of fascism shifted the terrain of our opposition, and what opportunities do we have at the local, domestic and global level to resist these violences, and that can help us to develop strategies to equip communities with the tools to fight back?falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/K8N87J/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/K8N87J/feedback/Seminar room 7Fighting for Labor Rights in AI Data WorkLightning Talk2026-04-11T16:30:00+02:0016:3000:15AI 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-workCamilla Salim WagnerMilagros MicelienThis 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/CQEFDQ/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/CQEFDQ/feedback/Seminar room 7Disputing Uber Drivers with the Far Right: Hacking Entrepreneurial Desire Toward Worker-Led PoliticsLightning Talk2026-04-11T16:45:00+02:0016:4500:15Brazil has 1.5 million Uber drivers. But most of them tend to support far-right politics and oppose any kind of platform work regulation in the country. This talk shows how Brazil’s institutional left has failed to engage in dialogue with these workers, and why it matters to contest the communication and desires of Uber drivers, going beyond simply labeling them as precarious workers.cableresist26-1124-disputing-uber-drivers-with-the-far-right-hacking-entrepreneurial-desire-toward-worker-led-politicsIgor Salles BarbosaenBrazil has become a global laboratory of platform work, with more than 1.5 million Uber drivers and delivery workers. However, rather than supporting unions and other worker organisations, many drivers embrace the far right and fiercely oppose labour regulation. This talk examines why the Brazilian institutional left’s “precarious work” narrative has fallen flat, while the right’s “entrepreneurship” discourse thrives on social media.
Drawing on my experience in worker organizing and advising politicians in Brazil, I argue that the left needs to compete more directly for platform workers’ communication and desires. While the left often offers cold sociological labels, sometimes implying that “workers don’t know what they want”, the far right offers a politics of enchantment: memes and aesthetics of authenticity that frame the driver’s everyday struggles as individual heroism.
The session proposes strategies to re-enchant worker-led politics by shifting the focus from what workers supposedly lack to what they aspire to become. How can we hack the logic of digital culture to organize Uber drivers? Confronting Big Tech also means hacking the infrastructures of desire that connect drivers across the world to everyday politics. We need to contest not only the code, but also the tech and labour imaginaries shaping these workers’ lives.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/BTJ9PT/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/BTJ9PT/feedback/Seminar room 7Worker-Owned Tech: Lessons from Latin AmericaTalk2026-04-11T17:00:00+02:0017:0000:30The 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-americaRafael GrohmannenThe 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
Worker-Owned Platforms and Intersectionality, Report
Comic Book: Other Tech Worlds Are Possible, with Homeless Workers' Movement
Digital Solidarity Economies
Interview, Sovereignty-as-a-service and Popular Digital Sovereignty
Solidarity in action: building worker-owned intersectional platforms in Latin Americahttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/D9C7KY/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/D9C7KY/feedback/Seminar room 7Lowtec & diy - aktivistisches RadioWorkshop2026-04-11T17:30:00+02:0017:3001:30Social 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/media/cableresist26/submissions/E78PGE/841_E2zYyV7.jpgMischkoHilkedeWas, 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/E78PGE/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/E78PGE/feedback/OtherTesla stoppenWorkshop2026-04-11T10:00:00+02:0010:0001:00Die 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-stoppenJoschideJoschi 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*in, Bildungsreferent*in und Umweltingenieur*in 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/SNMCSG/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/SNMCSG/feedback/OtherKritische “KI”-StadtführungLong workshop2026-04-11T15:00:00+02:0015:0001:30Wie 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/media/cableresist26/submissions/KTUDUQ/bildcrop_HdBhnCf_mtQtaic_bNEhRCJ.webpHubi & SarahDeleted UserdeWir treffen uns um 14h45 in der FMP1 Lobby und gehen zusammen zum Treffpunkt! (Ihr könnt uns aber auch direkt an der Wimmlbahn um 15h treffen)
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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KTUDUQ/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KTUDUQ/feedback/OtherScreen Printing workshop with D-I-T CollectiveLong workshop2026-04-11T15:30:00+02:0015:3001:30Meet us in the courtyard! (Until 6:30 pm)
D-I-T (Do-it-together) collective supports you to print the Cables of Resistance logo or one of their mostly political designs on textiles. You're welcome to bring your own shirts, bags, hoodies to print on.
D-I-T has also some shirts and bags aside.
Prints for donationcableresist26-1330-screen-printing-workshop-with-d-i-t-collectiveUnnamed speakerdeD-I-T (Do-it-together) collective supports you to print the Cables of Resistance logo or one of their mostly political designs on textiles. You're welcome to bring your own shirts, bags, hoodies to print on.
D-I-T has also some shirts and bags aside.
Prints for donationfalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RJVVX3/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RJVVX3/feedback/OtherProtest rave at the Amazon tower (external) - open to everyone!Workshop2026-04-11T18:30:00+02:0018:3002:30Come and join us for a protest rave against Big Tech in the middle of Friedrichshain! This is open to everyone. Within walking distance of the conference, enjoy music in the sunset.
*This is a side event in solidarity with, but not organised by Cables of Resistance.cableresist26-1314-protest-rave-at-the-amazon-tower-external-open-to-everyone/media/cableresist26/submissions/3GYJDJ/signal-2026-04-08-084015_002_hAFD51q.jpegdeAmazon? Nein, lieber Raven!
We won't let Big Tech eat up our world - let's come together in solidarity and show our power!
Where: on Warschauer Brücke in front of the Amazon tower (Marchlewskistr / Warschauer Str)falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/3GYJDJ/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/3GYJDJ/feedback/Lause (arts space)Art (Saturday)Art Installation2026-04-11T16:00:00+02:0016:0004:00Splitted Art event taking place in Lause 10 & conference ground
Art Exhibition & Discussions with artists at Lausitzer Straße 10. Starting at April 9th with a vernissage and a panel discussion at Lause 10. The exhibition is up to April 17th.
Additional art works on view during the conference at FMP1.cableresist26-1308-art-saturday/media/cableresist26/submissions/KTZWTR/Finissage_Open-AI-Lab_2025-09-_MCsU6c4.webpArt Space Lause 10deArt 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
Cornelia Es Said // Why this result? // Collage/Image Transfer und Malerei
Navid Razavi // Algorithmic Gaze // Sound & Video
Sarah Fitterer, Dominik Gangl // Apoteche // Mixed Media Installation
Federico Poni // Belinda // Generated WiFi SSIDs
Jo Tiffe // baised creatures // Mixed Media Installation
Kathrin Hunze // Training your Best Friend // Mixed Media Installation
Helena Nikonole with 868labs.net initiative// off grid wearables // Video to the Work at FMP1
Martin Nadal // FANGØ // Mixed Media Installation
Art Pieces at FMP1 (conference venue, Franz Mehring Platz 1)
Kathrin Hunze // Datahorse // Video
Helena Nikonole with 868labs.net initiative// 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 // Fotos
reincantamento // Online-Archivefalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KTZWTR/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KTZWTR/feedback/MünzenbergsaalMilitary Big TechPanel2026-04-12T10:00:00+02:0010:0001:00We discuss the big picture of digital militarisation as well as possibilities of resistance.cableresist26-1304-military-big-tech/media/cableresist26/submissions/CGN7DE/Inside_Israels_calculated_bombi_ZoXcNji.jpgmalAntony LoewensteinRheinmetall EntwaffnenVanessa ThompsonenWe address how the tech sector, universities and the military-industrial complexes have been historically inextricably linked, how societies are being militarised through Big Tech, and how Big Tech companies are currently complicit in the genocide in Gaza. We then discuss how effective resistance against the ongoing militarisation of our societies could look like.
- This panel is chaired by Vanessa Thompson.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/CGN7DE/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/CGN7DE/feedback/MünzenbergsaalTechnologisch forcierte FaschisierungWorkshop2026-04-12T11:00:00+02:0011:0001:001) tante: Faschisierende Aspekte unserer Technologien und unserer Nutzung
2) Sabrina Mittermeier: Queerfeministischer Perspektive auf die zunehmend unkritische Nutzung von „KI“
3) capulcu: Krise der Wahrheit als Wegbereiter der Faschisierungcableresist26-1287-technologisch-forcierte-faschisierunggastde**1) tante: Faschisierende Aspekte unserer Technologien und unserer Nutzung**
Alex Karp, Elon Musk. Vielleicht Marc Andreessen. Die Faschisierung, an der die uns umgebende Technologie einen deutlich sichtbaren Einfluss hat, wird oft gelesen als Aktionen einzelner Akteure und ihrer Firmen. Dabei ignorieren wir allerdings die faschisierenden Aspekte unserer Technologien und unserer Art sie einzusetzen, die wir in nahezu alle Aspekte unserer nicht nur digitalen Infrastrukturen eingebaut haben. Der Widerstand gegen den Faschismus außen hängt ab davon, seine Grundlagen aus den eigenen Herzen zu vertreiben.
**2) Sabrina Mittermeier: Die Anwendung sog. „Künstlicher Intelligenz“ hat massive rassistische, sexistische und queer- wie trans*feindliche Biases, die faschistisches Gedankengut in der Gesellschaft verankern.**
Dieser Beitrag will aus queerfeministischer Perspektive auf die zunehmend unkritische Nutzung von „KI“ eingehen, und wie damit dem Faschismus weiter Tür und Tor geöffnet werden. Ein besonderer Fokus iiegt dabei auf dem Frauenbild im Kontext der sog.„MAGA Ästhetik“.
**3) capulcu: Krise der Wahrheit als Wegbereiter 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.
Moderation: Aline Blankertzfalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/XGRLHA/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/XGRLHA/feedback/MünzenbergsaalCables Of Hope - socialising digital platforms instead of reforming the status quoTalk2026-04-12T13:30:00+02:0013:3000:30Digital platforms are the powerful manifestation of capitalist digitisation. They manage and commercialise every aspect of our lives, whilst evading democratic control. This talk aims to make the socialisation of these platforms a central component of a transformative movement connecting people's needs and digital tools.cableresist26-1111-cables-of-hope-socialising-digital-platforms-instead-of-reforming-the-status-quoMalte EngelerAline BlankertzenDigital platforms are taking control of more and more areas of our lives. We interact with them every day when we buy stuff (Amazon), socialise (TikTok), book a doctor’s appointment (doctolib), search for a new flat (Immoscout24) or watch videos (YouTube). Platforms do not produce anything themselves; they enrich themselves through a share of the profits generated by those operating on their platforms, by reinforcing inequalities.
Traditional responses to this have fallen short. Regulation, taxation or open-source alternatives do not tackle the problem at its core. Instead, we need to democratise platforms, and campaigns such as “Deutsche Wohnungen & Co Enteignen” have paved the way. The platforms and their digital control over the goods and services of our daily lives must be socialised and placed under democratic control to serve the public interest. Let's think about digital platforms in radically democratic terms AND reclaim this social control in a very practical way.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/37MJS8/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/37MJS8/feedback/MünzenbergsaalTech & Degrowth: imagining the small tech we wantTalk2026-04-12T14:00:00+02:0014:0000:30This 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-wantAureliane FroehlichSebastián UribeenWe 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/9RCMUT/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/9RCMUT/feedback/MünzenbergsaalForum: Strategy & OrganizingPanel2026-04-12T14:30:00+02:0014:3001:00Gemeinsam gegen Big Tech! Zeit zu handeln! Organisiert euch!
In diesem offenen, informellen Forum stellen sich verschiedenen Bewegungen und Gruppen vor, die sich gegen Big Tech und in anderen Kämpfen organisiert haben. Lernt sie kennen und schließt euch an.
Welche Gruppen genau dabei sind, erfahrt ihr vor Ort.cableresist26-1297-forum-strategy-organizingCable Resistdefalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/UY9PCL/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/UY9PCL/feedback/MünzenbergsaalClosing SessionKeynote2026-04-12T15:30:00+02:0015:3000:30Closingcableresist26-1298-closing-sessionCable Resistdefalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/PWRT9A/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/PWRT9A/feedback/SalonNetwork State FascismTalk2026-04-12T10:00:00+02:0010:0000:30Silicon 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-fascismhoppienThe 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RLFXVZ/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RLFXVZ/feedback/SalonConspiring as Resistance: How to Subvert the Really Fake?Talk2026-04-12T10:30:00+02:0010:3000:30This 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/media/cableresist26/submissions/WKDXE3/Untitled_-_Frame_4_6gWMEE5_BVevwMi.webpMaria Maddalena LenzienThis 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/WKDXE3/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/WKDXE3/feedback/SalonGewalt? Geteilt!Talk2026-04-12T11:00:00+02:0011:0000:30In Myanmar und Äthiopien trug Facebook zu Gewalt und Vertreibung bei. Wie Überlebende Meta nun vor Gericht zur Verantwortung ziehen.cableresist26-1265-gewalt-geteiltLena RohrbachdeÜberlebende 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/8EVU77/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/8EVU77/feedback/SalonMit Hochtechnologie gegen MigrationTalk2026-04-12T11:30:00+02:0011:3000:30Veranstaltung zu neuen Überwachungstechnologien von Frontexcableresist26-1053-mit-hochtechnologie-gegen-migrationMatthias MonroydeDie 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/7WR33J/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/7WR33J/feedback/SalonA Study of BraziliansTechnopolitical Collectives and the Construction of Autonomous Infrastructures and Digital AlternativesTalk2026-04-12T13:30:00+02:0013:3000:30This 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-alternativesMaraiza AdamienThis 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QWQAPS/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QWQAPS/feedback/SalonEigentümlich anti-sozial? Alternativen zum rechtslibertären Tech-FaschismusTalk2026-04-12T14:00:00+02:0014:0000:30Die 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-faschismusJonathandeDie 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,truehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/DBCLWD/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/DBCLWD/feedback/Seminar room 1Know your enemy: Sex and Violence within the Machinery of Techno-FascismTalk2026-04-12T10:00:00+02:0010:0000:30What 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/media/cableresist26/submissions/QZPQGD/photo_2026-01-16_12.41.05_SKHAuOn.jpegJanne KummerenWhat 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-)defensefalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QZPQGD/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/QZPQGD/feedback/Seminar room 15 theses on techno-authoritarianismTalk2026-04-12T10:30:00+02:0010:3000:30Techno-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-authoritarianismMaurilio PironeenTechno-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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/SR8K8Q/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/SR8K8Q/feedback/Seminar room 1Automated war-crimes powered by BigTech – why and how to resistTalk2026-04-12T11:00:00+02:0011:0001:00With the example of the Lavender targeting system used by Israel in the Gaza genocide we explicate how systematically harmful Big Tech's infrastructure is. We propose the labour movement in tech and academia as one angle to resist such use and also to fight Big Tech at large by collective action.cableresist26-1115-automated-war-crimes-powered-by-bigtech-why-and-how-to-resist/media/cableresist26/submissions/TFV9YX/image_ihVJXfs_H0MAE3H_Wv97wAS__b1tCkCW.webpRainer RehakAlienUsing the example of the Lavender targeting system used by Israel in the Gaza genocide we describe a horrific AI-enabled killing system used to systematically kill civilians. Lavender is only possible through the digital infrastructure provided by Amazon, Google and Palantir, to name the biggest players. There are many other examples how systematically harmful Big Tech's infrastructure is being used, e.g. ICE, police forces and militaries.
We then focus on Project Nimbus (Google and Amazon) and describe the Nimbus contract to show how AWS and Google Cloud are utilized to enable grave violence without oversight. Project Nimbus is key as it serves as a blueprint for future Big Tech military contracts, emulating the "Palestine Laboratory".
Finally, we propose the labour movement within Big Tech and academia as one angle to resist the uses described and also to fight Big Tech at large by collective action. One example is the the struggle of workers who organize with No Tech for Apartheid (NOTA) against Project Nimbus.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/TFV9YX/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/TFV9YX/feedback/Seminar room 1Building Backwards: Lessons from an Alternative History of the WebTalk2026-04-12T13:30:00+02:0013:3000:30How 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 different 2026. What can we learn from this reality to help materialize a different future?cableresist26-1194-building-backwards-lessons-from-an-alternative-history-of-the-webDaisy TSarahenWe present an alternative timeline of technological and political history, one in which Big Tech conglomerates do not exist as they do today 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. The experience was much less commercialized and algorithm-driven in 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 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.
This talk describes what happened next.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/TBECPH/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/TBECPH/feedback/Seminar room 1Struggling against AI’s augmented exploitation and control: pathways and pitfallsTalk2026-04-12T14:00:00+02:0014:0000:30In 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/media/cableresist26/submissions/3NVSDW/Mansouri-Baliey-anti-AI_xEVLAOL.jpgMasoumeh Iran MansourienEach 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/3NVSDW/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/3NVSDW/feedback/Seminar room 1Forum: Strategy & OrganizingPanel2026-04-12T14:30:00+02:0014:3001:00Gemeinsam gegen Big Tech! Zeit zu handeln! Organisiert euch!
In diesem offenen, informellen Forum stellen sich verschiedenen Bewegungen und Gruppen vor, die sich gegen Big Tech und in anderen Kämpfen organisiert haben. Lernt sie kennen und schließt euch an.
Welche Gruppen genau dabei sind, erfahrt ihr vor Ort.cableresist26-1331-forum-strategy-organizingdefalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/JB3EDJ/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/JB3EDJ/feedback/Seminar room 2Big Tech made in Germany? Lidl und das Verprechen digitaler SouveränitätTalk2026-04-12T10:00:00+02:0010:0000:30Unter 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-lidl-und-das-verprechen-digitaler-souveranitatAnna KraherdeAmazon, 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VJYLJW/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/VJYLJW/feedback/Seminar room 2Techno-Faschismus - Damals und HeuteTalk2026-04-12T10:30:00+02:0010:3000:30Der 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-heuteFred HeussnerdeSeit 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KXJ3YK/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KXJ3YK/feedback/Seminar room 2Border Profiteers - on the recycling of bare lifeWorkshop2026-04-12T11:00:00+02:0011:0001:00"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/media/cableresist26/submissions/833Z7B/BorderProfiteersWIPLogo_PV9GCbI.pnghoppiMarley Bharathi StefanenDisplace. 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/833Z7B/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/833Z7B/feedback/Seminar room 2Can We Build Hardware Without Capitalism?Long workshop2026-04-12T13:30:00+02:0013:3001:00Mass 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-capitalismTerrabyteenThe 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/E3EYPD/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/E3EYPD/feedback/Seminar room 2Forum: Strategy & OrganizingPanel2026-04-12T14:30:00+02:0014:3001:00Gemeinsam gegen Big Tech! Zeit zu handeln! Organisiert euch!
In diesem offenen, informellen Forum stellen sich verschiedenen Bewegungen und Gruppen vor, die sich gegen Big Tech und in anderen Kämpfen organisiert haben. Lernt sie kennen und schließt euch an.
Welche Gruppen genau dabei sind, erfahrt ihr vor Ort.cableresist26-1332-forum-strategy-organizingdefalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/8A8JPT/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/8A8JPT/feedback/Seminar room 3Digitale Gewalt ist viel mehr als HatespeechTalk2026-04-12T10:00:00+02:0010:0000:30Mit Digitaler Gewalt ist oft Hass im Netz gemeint: Beleidigungen, Verleumdungen, Bedrohung. Aber sie findet nicht nur auf Plattformen statt, sondern in Partnerschaften und Ex-Partnerschaften, unter Kolleg*innen, in Familien oder Nachbarschaften. Es geht um winzige Kameras, Stalkerware, vernetzte Geräte oder Deepfakes. Durch den Fall von Collien Fernandes ist das Thema gerade wieder sehr aktuell.cableresist26-1285-digitale-gewalt-ist-viel-mehr-als-hatespeech/media/cableresist26/submissions/GEFRBF/drone-2724257_1280_Foto_NoName_h0clwhV.webpAnne RothdeGewalt im sozialen Nahraum, auch bekannt als häusliche Gewalt, wird weit überwiegend von Männern ausgeübt, und auch die Nutzung von Technik ist noch immer geschlechtsspezifisch stark unterschiedlich. Wenig überraschend also, dass die Nutzung von Technik zur Überwachung in Partnerschaften und im direkten sozialen Umfeld geschlechtsspezifisch sehr verschieden ist.
Worum geht es? Zur technikbasierten Gewalt gehört das Mitlesen von E-Mails, sichtbare und unsichtbare Kameras in öffentlichen und privaten Räumen, AirTags in Spielzeug, Handtaschen, Fahrzeugen oder die remote Kontrolle vernetzter Geräte. Spyware wird nicht nur von autokratischen Regimes eingesetzt, sondern auch zur Überwachung der eigenen Familie; sie wird dann Stalkerware genannt. Schließlich die große Palette der bildbasierten Gewalt, die Anfang Januar Aufmerksamkeit bekam, weil die „X“-KI Grok Anfang des Jahres aus Fotos innerhalb weniger Tage Millionen von Deep Fakes fabrizierte. Dazu kam jetzt der Mut von Collien Fernandes, über die Deepfakes zu sprechen, die in ihrem Namen verbreitet wurden.
In diesem Talk geht es um Formen und Ausmaß, um die zögerliche Reaktion der Politik und was geschehen müsste, um Betroffenen zu helfen.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/GEFRBF/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/GEFRBF/feedback/Seminar room 3Die zyklische Erneuerung der FaschisierungTalk2026-04-12T10:30:00+02:0010:3000:30tbdcableresist26-1281-die-zyklische-erneuerung-der-faschisierungDetlef HartmanndeWir wissen: Faschisierung ist nicht nur ein aktuelles Phänomen, sie wiederholt sich im Verlauf der Geschichte. Aber was ist der Grund? Wenn wir zum letzten kapitalistischen Zyklus, dem fordistisch/tayloristischen im 20. Jahrhundert zurückblicken, so erkennen wir seine Treiber in den Avantgarden, die die technologische Entwicklung vorantrieben. In ihrem Verlauf waren es zu förderst männliche Fanatiker und schließlich Hitler und seine Gefolgschaft, aber auch Mussolini, die sich die umfassende Taylorisierung nicht nur der Industrie, sondern der Gesellschaft zum Ziel gesetzt hatten. Ihre Mittel waren Gewalt und Krieg, in dem sie deren Durchbruch suchten.
Fast ausschließlich männliche Avantgarden stehen auch am Beginn des aktuellen Zyklus. Sie betreiben darin die Erneuerung des Kapitalismus und patriarchalischer Macht. In deren technologischem Kern liegen die Informationstechnologien, die nach und nach in alle gesellschaftlichen Felder getrieben werden. Wie im vergangenen Zyklus laden sich die Vorstöße mit faschistoiden Energien auf und Krieg ist schon jetzt ein bedeutendes Feld ihrer Durchsetzung.
In einen Workshop möchte ich diese Zusammenhänge klären und aus dieser Zyklik (die Zyklen ähneln sich) die erwartbaren Entwicklungen herauslesen und diskutieren.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/8KKLCP/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/8KKLCP/feedback/Seminar room 3The AI/Energy/Fascism Nexus: An Anatomy of an AllianceTalk2026-04-12T11:00:00+02:0011:0000:30This 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-allianceApasekenThis 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/YCKDCU/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/YCKDCU/feedback/Seminar room 3Digital occupation: israel’s architecture of control in LebanonTalk2026-04-12T11:30:00+02:0011:3000:30This talk examines the reality of digital occupation in Lebanon today, what it means for those living under it, and how it might help us understand our future.cableresist26-1315-digital-occupation-israel-s-architecture-of-control-in-lebanonJaraenCyberwarfare has long been feared as the threat of the future. But Israel's mass surveillance and automated bombardments already are the reality in Lebanon, where drones with facial recognition power follow widows of fighters and the pager attacks injured thousands.
This talk examines the reality of digital occupation in Lebanon today, what it means for those living under it, and how it might help us understand our future.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/9W9RE7/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/9W9RE7/feedback/Seminar room 3Jenseits von technologischer Alternativlosigkeit: Austauschraum zu Widerstandsstrategien gegen KILong workshop2026-04-12T13:30:00+02:0013:3001:00Interaktiver 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-kiDigital DissentdeDer 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.truehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/UPWMWR/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/UPWMWR/feedback/Seminar room 7Understanding the Political Attack by Big Tech and Options for Anti-fascist AlliancesTalk2026-04-12T10:00:00+02:0010:0000:30Big 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-alliancesChristopher CoenenenLooking 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.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RG8XNB/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RG8XNB/feedback/Seminar room 7The Militarisation of Big-TechWorkshop2026-04-12T10:30:00+02:0010:3001:00Building shared knowledge, sharing experiences, and making connections
It seems to us that one cannot understand the construction boom in data centers and the AI speculative bubble without placing the issue of militarization at the center of the debate. The two sectors are fueling each other in a destructive imperialist race. A radically technocritic movement must be on page on anti militarism.cableresist26-1306-the-militarisation-of-big-techLe Nuage était sous nos piedsenThis session will propose building collectively from these 5 starting points
1. Talking about the Iranian war : How does it contribute to reshape links between Tech and Global Militarization.
2. Landscape: follow the code follow the money
3. Feedbacks from the Field: Gaza (Gaza Web), Ukraine, Export policy
4. What's working for us and others ? Campaigns, leverage and gaps
5. What do we do now ?!falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/DDB7RN/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/DDB7RN/feedback/Seminar room 7Towards Cloud Abolition: articulations, contestations and reimaginations of computational infrastructuresTalk2026-04-12T11:30:00+02:0011:3000:30In various projects, we hypothesize that computational infrastructures —made up of clouds plus end devices, concentrated in the hands of a few tech companies— function as a factory that is swallowing public and private institutions alike, while driving inequalities and violence, globally.cableresist26-1342-towards-cloud-abolition-articulations-contestations-and-reimaginations-of-computational-infrastructuresSeda GürsesenIn various projects, we hypothesize that computational infrastructures —made up of clouds plus end devices, concentrated in the hands of a few tech companies— function as a factory that is swallowing public and private institutions alike, while driving inequalities and violence, globally. In this session, we introduce some of the creative methods we are developing in various coalitions to articulate, contest and reimagine our computational infrastructures.
Cristina Cochior (Infra-Rehearsals)
Alyna Smith (Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice)
Seda Gürses (The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest, TU Delft)falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/ETPUSR/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/ETPUSR/feedback/Seminar room 7Konviviale Technik statt Big TechWorkshop2026-04-12T13:30:00+02:0013:3001:00Wie 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-techAndrea Vetterdefalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/FRGXNB/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/FRGXNB/feedback/OtherFahrradtour mit #AbolishFrontex: Kritische Radtour: Wer profitiert vom EU-Grenzregime?Long workshop2026-04-12T15:00:00+02:0015:0001:00Bitte bringt eure eigenen Räder mit!
ACHTUNG die Tour startet nicht am Konferenzort!
Treffpunkt: Ecke Zimmerstraße / Jerusalemer Straße, 10117 Berlin Mitte
Mit Abolish Frontex & Cables of Resistancecableresist26-1300-fahrradtour-mit-abolishfrontex-kritische-radtour-wer-profitiert-vom-eu-grenzregime/media/cableresist26/submissions/RJLRQG/signal-2026-04-08-134112_GSnZttK.jpegAbolish FrontexdeRüstungskonzerne verkaufen Drohnen zur Grenzüberwachung, und große Firmen verdienen an Grenzkontrollsystemen, IT-Giganten entwickeln Risikoanalysen zur Migrationsabwehr. Private Institute forschen an der Verbesserung dieser Systeme mit Künstlicher Intelligenz und anderen Technologien. Einige dieser Firmen und Institutionen haben ihren Sitz in Berlin, und andere haben eine Hauptstadtniederlassung eingerichtet oder nur einen Briefkasten aufgehängt. Sie arbeiten entweder direkt mit EU-Behörden wie Frontex, Europol oder eu-LISA zusammen oder sind an großen, EU-finanzierten Projekten beteiligt. Mit einer Radtour wollen wir einige dieser Profiteure des EU-Grenzregimes in der Innenstadt ausfindig machen und aufzeigen, welche Rolle sie in diesem gewalttätigen System spielen.
Unsere Stops: Axel Springer Verlag (BILD) • Thales • NTT • IOM • Elettronica • DLR • European Fencing • IBM • Rheinmetall • EU-Kommission • US-Botschaft • Sopra Steria • ESG • Airbus • German Drones • BMI
Die Tour wird auf deutsch stattfinden – bei Bedarf mit Informationen auf Englisch.
Falls du ein Fahrrad brauchst, melde dich bei uns! info@abolishfrontex.org.
Mehr Informationen unter https://abolishfrontex.org/border-profiteers-berlin.falsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RJLRQG/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/RJLRQG/feedback/Lause (arts space)Art (Sunday)Art Installation2026-04-12T16:00:00+02:0016:0004:00Splitted Art event taking place in Lause 10 & conference ground
Art Exhibition & Discussions with artists at Lausitzer Straße 10. Starting at April 9th with a vernissage and a panel discussion at Lause 10. The exhibition is up to April 17th.
Additional art works on view during the conference at FMP1.cableresist26-1309-art-sunday/media/cableresist26/submissions/KZSCSQ/Finissage_Open-AI-Lab_2025-09-_AYdkMJo.webpCable ResistArt Space Lause 10deArt 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
Cornelia Es Said // Why this result? // Collage/Image Transfer und Malerei
Navid Razavi // Algorithmic Gaze // Sound & Video
Sarah Fitterer, Dominik Gangl // Apoteche // Mixed Media Installation
Federico Poni // Belinda // Generated WiFi SSIDs
Jo Tiffe // baised creatures // Mixed Media Installation
Kathrin Hunze // Training your Best Friend // Mixed Media Installation
Helena Nikonole with 868labs.net initiative// off grid wearables // Video to the Work at FMP1
Martin Nadal // FANGØ // Mixed Media Installation
Art Pieces at FMP1 (conference venue, Franz Mehring Platz 1)
Kathrin Hunze // Datahorse // Video
Helena Nikonole with 868labs.net initiative// 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 // Fotos
reincantamento // Online-Archivefalsehttps://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KZSCSQ/https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KZSCSQ/feedback/