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10:00
10:00
660min
Arts Space (Friday)
Cable Resist, Art Space Lause 10

Splitted Art event taking place in Lause 10 & conference ground

Art Exhibition & Diskussions with artists at Lausitzer Straße 10. Starting at April 9th with a vernissage and a panel dicussion at Lause 10. The exhibition is up to April 17th.

Additional art works on view during the conference at FMP1.

Arts
Lause (arts space)
14:00
14:00
90min
Registration
Münzenbergsaal
14:00
90min
Registration
Salon
14:00
90min
Registration
Seminar room 1
14:00
90min
Registration
Seminar room 2
14:00
90min
Registration
Seminar room 3
14:00
90min
Registration
Seminar room 7
15:30
15:30
60min
Opening Panel
Cable Resist

Opening Panel

General Program
Münzenbergsaal
16:30
16:30
60min
Assemblies
Cable Resist

Assemblies

General Program
Münzenbergsaal
17:30
17:30
30min
Short break
Münzenbergsaal
17:30
30min
Short break
Salon
17:30
30min
Short break
Seminar room 1
17:30
30min
Short break
Seminar room 2
17:30
30min
Short break
Seminar room 3
17:30
30min
Short break
Seminar room 7
18:00
18:00
30min
Keynote Cecilia Rikap
Cable Resist, Cecilia Rikap

Keynote Cecilia Rikap

General Program
Münzenbergsaal
18:30
18:30
30min
Keynote Nina Scholz
Cable Resist, Nina Scholz

Keynote Nina Scholz

General Program
Münzenbergsaal
19:00
19:00
60min
Abendessen
Münzenbergsaal
19:00
60min
Abendessen
Salon
19:00
60min
Abendessen
Seminar room 1
19:00
60min
Abendessen
Seminar room 2
19:00
60min
Abendessen
Seminar room 3
19:00
60min
Abendessen
Seminar room 7
20:00
20:00
60min
Abendprogramm
Münzenbergsaal
20:00
60min
Abendprogramm
Salon
20:00
60min
Abendprogramm
Seminar room 1
20:00
60min
Abendprogramm
Seminar room 2
20:00
60min
Abendprogramm
Seminar room 3
20:00
60min
Abendprogramm
Seminar room 7
09:45
09:45
15min
Good Morning & Housekeeping
Cable Resist

Morning Greetings & Houskeeping

General Program
Münzenbergsaal
10:00
10:00
30min
Acid Clouds
Niels Schrader

Acid Clouds is a research project initiated by graphic designer Niels Schrader and photographer Roel Backaert. It explores the hidden infrastructures of digital life, exposing the political, ecological and social dynamics embodied by data centres. Moving beyond the sanitized image of the ‘cloud’, it unpacks the material and ethical complexities of these often overlooked data storage structures.

Climate and energy
Seminar room 1
10:00
600min
Arts Space (Saturday)
Art Space Lause 10

Splitted Art event taking place in Lause 10 & conference ground

Art Exhibition & Diskussions with artists at Lausitzer Straße 10. Starting at April 9th with a vernissage and a panel dicussion at Lause 10. The exhibition is up to April 17th.

Additional art works on view during the conference at FMP1.

Arts
Lause (arts space)
10:00
60min
Cloud Factories: Researching data centre sites before the Cloud hits the ground
Papertrail

This interactive workshop will give insights into an ongoing artistic research project focused on problematising the destructive impact of hyperscale data centre construction on landscapes and ecosystems. Participants will be invited to interact with visual and narrative materials unearthed by the research and to exchange ideas for the expansion of the project to other sites of struggle.

Water and raw materials
Salon
10:00
30min
From Big Oil to Big Tech: the power of cloud giants in sustainability transition
Silvia Weko

Big Tech is turning its energy dependence into a new way of steering the energy transition, as it is already becoming a provider of digital infrastructures and technologies that are crucial to operate renewable energy systems. This talk will explain in-depth how Amazon, Google and Microsoft are taking advantage of this window of opportunity to expand their structural power in global politics.

Climate and energy
Seminar room 2
10:00
90min
Tech X Environmental Justice – Unpacking the Hidden Cost of Innovation
B

A collaborative space to to create new perspectives on technology’s environmental‑justice impact, especially AI.

We start with a life‑cycle analysis of tech: extraction, production, distribution, use, and disposal, to examining environmental, social, structural and colonial costs. In group work we will study real-world examples and apply an environmental‑justice lens across various justice axes.

Water and raw materials
Seminar room 7
10:00
60min
Tesla stoppen
Joschi

Die Ausstellung zeigt Bilder aus der Wasserwald-Besetzung in Grünheide, in der sich mutige Menschen gegen die Ausbau der Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide, Brandenburg eingesetzt haben.
Außerdem geht die Ausstellung auf die internationalen Auswirkungen der BigTec ein, wie dem Lithium Abbau in Lateinamerika für die Elektroautos von Tesla und der Nutzung von Drohnen und KI in Gaza.

Climate and energy
Other
10:00
60min
Wie wehrt man sich gegen Rechenzentren – Fishbowl-Diskussion über Herausforderungen und Chancen
Kira Mössinger, AlgorithmWatch

Welche Taktiken sind erfolgsbringend und welche Herausforderungen muss man überwinden, um sich gegen Rechenzentren zu engagieren oder dazu zu forschen? Über diese Fragen möchten wir uns mit Teilnehmenden in einer Fishbowl-Diskussion austauschen. AlgorithmWatch beginnt die Diskussion gemeinsam mit Vertreter*innen aus Aktivismus und investigativem Journalismus, und lädt alle zum Mitdiskutieren ein.

Climate and energy
Seminar room 3
10:15
10:15
60min
Supply Chain panel

panel on supply chains

General Program
Münzenbergsaal
10:30
10:30
30min
From Stargate Data Centres to the Indigenous Arctic – tracking AI's toxic supply chain.
Alistair Alexander

AI’s ecological footprint doesn’t stop with data centres; here we’ll follow the AI supply chain to “megacluster” AI microchip factories spewing out “forever” chemicals, and all the way up to First Nation lands in Canada and Greenland, targeted for their rich deposits of rare earths and copper.

Water and raw materials
Seminar room 2
11:00
11:00
30min
Circular Economies, Recycled Colonies
Stephen Cornford

This talk explores how BigTech are using artificial intelligence to prospect for critical minerals in Africa. KoBold Metals, Silicon Valley start-up is harvesting historic geological survey data, and licensing its proprietary AI engine to mining companies, to create “a Google Maps of mineral deposits”. The circular economy will not be forged from recycled metals, but recycled colonialism.

Water and raw materials
Seminar room 1
11:00
60min
Generative KI + Fossiles Gas + CCS = Klimakatastrophe
Moritz, urgewald, Marie-Luise Abshagen

Der Hype um generative KI bedroht in Zeiten der eskalierenden Klimakrise die Zukunft eines lebenswerten Planeten für uns alle. Denn die Rechenzentren brauchen viel Energie. Diese will die Gasindustrie liefern und bedient sich dafür einer größten Klimaschutzlüge. Mit der Risikotechnologie CCS soll das CO2 abgefangen und in absurd hohen Mengen unter dem Meeresboden deponiert werden.

Climate and energy
Seminar room 3
11:00
15min
KI kurzschliessen: Widerstand gegen neue Datenzentren in der Schweiz
Aufstände der Allmende

In der Schweiz ist ein massiver Ausbau von KI-Infrastruktur im Gange. Dem Schweizer Stromnetz droht mit den geplanten Datenzentrum die Überlastung, Anwohnende müssen um ihre Wasserversorgung fürchten.
DochWiderstand regt sich. Im Rahmen der Kampagne "KI kurzschliessen" wird in der Schweiz an einem Bündnis gegen BigTech gearbeitet, das sich in einem Aktionscamp Anfangs Juli konsolidieren wird.

Climate and energy
Seminar room 2
11:15
11:15
15min
Counting the stones in my computer : an abyssal perspective on the value of time
Coralie Gourguechon

10 mm per million years : the growth of a polymetallic nodule, from the abyssal plains of the Pacific. 16 minutes & 45 seconds : a hand, writing on paper the algorithm for mining one bitcoin. 32,768 vibrations per second : a quartz crystal, the timekeeper of electronic clocks. $202 ; the monthly paycheck of a cobalt miner in Congo. A visual essay exploring the entanglements of computation and time

Water and raw materials
Seminar room 2
11:30
11:30
15min
AI accelerationism and the quest for unlimited growth
Annie

Can we scale our way out of the crisis? Many in the tech world believe that AI's wide adoption will boost stagnating economies, increasing innovation and social welfare. From a growth-critical perspective, this talk dissects such ambitions, showing how the confluence of tech ideologies and the global growth paradigm intensifies extraction, and risks social as well as ecological deterioration.

Climate and energy
Seminar room 2
11:30
30min
Data centres and the imperialist casino
Vinit Ravishankar

This talk is meant to analyse of the political economy of data centre expansions. I diverge from both mainstream narratives of haphazard data-centre construction as useful for digital economies, and critical narratives of data centres as intrinsically domestically harmful. Instead, I describe them as a rational, manageable asset — yet one that is rooted in imperialist extraction.

Water and raw materials
Seminar room 1
12:00
12:00
90min
Lunch
Münzenbergsaal
12:00
90min
Lunch
Salon
12:00
90min
Lunch
Seminar room 1
12:00
90min
Lunch
Seminar room 2
12:00
90min
Lunch
Seminar room 3
12:00
90min
Lunch
Seminar room 7
13:30
13:30
30min
Boom, Bust, Quit: The Technology Hype Cycle As Capitalism's Latest Frontier
Alex Durrant

We are all too aware of the Technology Hype Cycle: A new technology promises to reshape the world, capitalists jump in to make as much profit as possible, then when reality fails to match hype, a new technology is found to continue the cycle. This is a distillation of a much older pattern: the way capitalism finds, exploits and uses up frontiers to fuel the illusion of perpetual growth.

Climate and energy
Seminar room 1
13:30
90min
Data Center Panel
Dylan Murphy, Eda, Luis García Valverde, Ola Bonati

Panel with activists from France, Ireland and Spain fighting data centers

General Program
Münzenbergsaal
13:30
90min
The Kill Cloud as Corporate Takeover: The Convergence of The Military, Venture Capitalism and Technology Start-Ups
Tatiana Bazzichelli, Lisa Ling, Joana Moll

Military systems are increasingly traversing private infrastructure while financed by venture capital. Tech executives can now exert influence within the Kill Cloud to protect their interests. The workshop examines machinations fostering and reshaping global power dynamics, embodied militarisation, AI, warfare, and resistance.

Militarisation
Salon
13:30
60min
compost.party - permacomputing and feminist infrastructure from scraps
arne, Malte

Every year millions and millions of tonnes of devices end up as e-waste. What could it look like to break this cycle? A practical inquiry inspired by permacomputing.

Water and raw materials
Seminar room 7
14:00
14:00
30min
Confronting Military Technoscience: Academic and Activist Engagements
Nil Uzun, Jutta Weber

This talk confronts military technoscience, especially AI, drones, and algorithmic warfare by bridging critical scholarship and activism. It presents research on control, autonomy, targeting, and datafication, and maps feminist and anticolonial resistance strategies to build solidarities among academics, artists, and social movements to challenge the normalization of “software-based war”.

Militarisation
Seminar room 1
14:00
30min
KI, Big-Tech und Klimahölle: Wie die Bundesregierung noch mehr Rechenzentren nach Deutschland holen möchte - und warum es dringend Widerstand braucht
Julian Bothe

Big Tech kann gar nicht genug Rechenzentren bekommen - maßgeblich getrieben vom globalen KI-Hype. Schon jetzt verschärft dies die Klimakrise. Doch Reiche und Merz möchten noch mehr Rechenzentren und begünstigen Amazon und Co noch weiter. All das zeigt: An den Rechenzentren vereinen sich die Kämpfe für Klimagerechtigkeit, digitale Selbstbestimmung und eine demokratische Zukunft.

Climate and energy
Seminar room 2
14:00
30min
OUR BODIES - OUR DATA - OUR CHOICE: Everybodys Future
emski

To "keep the Internet clean" is the structural factor where racism, capitalism and patriarchy meet. This talk is about the situation of clickworkers in Uganda and Kenya: black women who "keep clean" the white male Internet of the big-tech-industry. Struggling against direct and structural violence/exploitation the women organized and practised resistance.

Feminism
Seminar room 3
14:30
14:30
30min
Algorithmic Violence and Mexican Feminist Resistance on X
Elisa Flores Weiss

Digital platforms are essential for feminist movements and increasingly hostile to them. Drawing on qualitative research with Mexican cyberfeminist activists, this talk shows how X algorithmically suppresses feminist speech, amplifies misogynist violence, and how activists develop collective strategies of resistance beyond platform control.

Feminism
Seminar room 1
14:30
60min
Technologie und Gender: Strategien für eine feministische Zukunft!
Carla (Queere FeTe), Emma, Kathe

In diesem Workshop erkunden wir die geschlechtsspezifischen Dimensionen von Big Tech. Gemeinsam analysieren wir die Themen, die wir selber mitbringen: Welche Bedeutung haben sie für marginalisierte Gruppen? Wer wird in bestehenden Lösungen übersehen? Ziel ist es, argumentationsfähig zu werden und den Kampf gegen Big Tech als feministischen Kampf sichtbar zu machen.

Feminism
Seminar room 3
14:30
30min
Trans Rechte mit Digitalrechten queeren
Jyn

Trans Rechte sind Menschenrechte, Digitalrechte sind Menschenrechte. Und wir müssen sie vereinen, und nicht einfach nur Erwähnungen in den Strategien, Positionen und Policen der anderen sein. Dieser Vortrag ist ein Plädoyer Trans Rechte zu digitalisieren und Digitalrechte zu transitionieren.

Feminism
Seminar room 2
15:00
15:00
30min
Misogyny by design: Why resisting Big Tech requires feminist countergovernance
Carine Roos

Big Tech profits from misogyny, queerphobia, and authoritarian politics while capturing AI governance. Drawing on feminist and grassroots struggles in Brazil, this talk advances feminist countergovernance: collective resistance, legal action, and organised democratic conflict to challenge corporate power and reclaim the political imagination beyond Big Tech.

Feminism
Seminar room 2
15:00
30min
Navigating censorship & digital exclusion: what we can learn from adult content creators
Raksha Muthukumar

In this talk, we’re going to learn about the current landscape of censorship and discrimination that adult content creators and sex workers face online. We will then extrapolate how their tried-and-true strategies for navigating the ambiguous and shifting moral landscape of tech platforms can be used by political organizers across activist movements.

Feminism
Salon
15:30
15:30
60min
Afternoon break
Münzenbergsaal
15:30
60min
Afternoon break
Salon
15:30
60min
Afternoon break
Seminar room 1
15:30
60min
Afternoon break
Seminar room 2
15:30
60min
Afternoon break
Seminar room 3
15:30
60min
Afternoon break
Seminar room 7
16:30
16:30
15min
Fighting for Labor Rights in AI Data Work
Camilla Salim Wagner

AI companies, platforms and outsourcing firms mobilize a global and precarious workforce to prepare, annotate and moderate datasets for AI. Against pervasive labor rights violations, this talk mobilizes insights from research, asking: How can existing labor rights frameworks be mobilized to bring about change? And where is new regulation needed?

Labour
Seminar room 7
16:30
60min
Panel discussion: Big Tech against our Cities - Gentrifizierung, Privatisierung und Überwachung
Christoph Hassler (Bündnis Hansaplatz), Maja-Lee Voigt, Katja Schwaller, Claudia Seldin, Unnamed user

(voläufig) Auf diesem Panel diskutieren wir mit Bewegungen und Wissenschaftler:innen, wie Big Tech unsere Städte und Nachbarschaften verändert und überlegen, wie wir uns Gentrifizieurung, Privatisierung und Überwachung widersetzen können.

Urban Politics
Münzenbergsaal
16:30
30min
Platform work as an answer to what? Understanding migrant workers' life worlds beyond the gig
Barbara

This talk draws on academic research on migrant workers' lives in the gig economy. While based on research, the aim of the talk is practice-oriented: to share insights useful for activists and social movements on how to reach workers who are not organised yet, and shed light on overlooked aspects in workers' lives beyond their work.

Labour
Salon
16:30
30min
Reverse engineering to support workers rights
Simone Robutti (Tech Workers Coalition)

We will present how technical investigations of mobile apps and websites can help platform workers to identify labor rights and privacy violations.

Labour
Seminar room 2
17:00
17:00
30min
Why Work? Shifting the Lens from What Work Demands to What Workers Desire
Sana Ahmad

My talk will engage with labour aspirations of meaningful work and how workers navigate changes related to AI technologies, neoliberalism, and increasing inequalities. This is a political project that aims to decommodify labour and support the fundamental human need to be treated as equal, autonomous agents capable of shaping the course of their working lives.

Labour
Seminar room 1
17:00
30min
Within or against? The role of IT workers in the fight against big tech
Valentin

We are familiar with the exploitation of low-wage workers by big tech. But what about the more privileged groups of software developers, UX engineers, etc? Are they part of the problem, or a potential source of worker power? Based on research in Berlin's tech industry and my political work in the field, the talk explores the contradictory class dynamics of (labor) struggles against tech companies.

Labour
Salon
17:00
30min
Worker-Owned Tech: Lessons from Latin America
Rafael Grohmann

The talk presents lessons from a project conducted with six worker collectives and cooperatives from Brazil and Argentina in tech and delivery. Drawing on Latin American traditions of community tech and solidarity economies, it explores how these groups territorialize technology and build collective strategies grounded in intercooperation, care before code, and popular digital sovereignty.

Labour
Seminar room 7
17:30
17:30
30min
Infrastrukturextraktivismus - wie Big Tech mit Rechenzentren unsere Stromnetze und Städte ausbeutet
Niklas Steinke, Indra Jungblut, Fabian Halfar

Geht es um die dramatischen Auswirkungen von Rechenzentren und Big Tech, blicken wir meist in die USA. Doch so weit entfernt passiert das alles nicht. Fabian, Niklas und Indra zeigen, wie sich Energiehunger und Platzbedarf von Rechenzentren auf Städte wie Frankfurt und Berlin auswirken. Und sie decken ein Muster auf, das sich weltweit wiederholt und mit der Operationslogik von Big Tech zu tun hat.

Urban Politics
Seminar room 1
17:30
60min
Lowtec & diy - aktivistisches Radio
Mischko, Hilke

Social Media at it's best: Aktivistisches, unprofessionelles Radio von unten, mobil in der Stadt unterwegs und live gestreamt ins Internet.
Wie ein technisches Setup dafür aussehen kann und was ihr sonst noch bedenken solltet, das erfahrt ihr in diesem Workshop.

Urban Politics
Seminar room 7
17:30
60min
Overview panel on labour and tech
Yonatan Miller

This session brings together perspectives on different forms of labour organising in the context of Big Tech.

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Labour
Münzenbergsaal
18:00
18:00
30min
Parlamentarismus nutzen - Rechenzentren bekämpfen
Sonja Lemke

In diesem Talk soll es darum gehen, wie die parlamentarische Linke genutzt weredn kann, wichtige Informationen von den unterschiedlichen Ebenen zu bekommen und Proteste zu organisieren. Am Beispiel von Rechenzentren, wo von der Rechenzentrenstrategie der Bundesregierung bis zu Grundstücksvergabe vor Ort, überall Parlamente Einfluss haben.

Urban Politics
Seminar room 1
18:00
30min
Redscout24 - Zur digitalen Wohnungsfrage
Sandra

Wer heutzutage eine Wohnung sucht, kommt kaum noch darum herum, sich einen Account bei Immoscout24 & Co. zu erstellen. Diese „Platform Real Estate“ sind eine besondere Art der „Walled Gardens“, die ihr Geschäftsmodell auf die sich immer weiter verschärfende Wohnungskrise ausgerichtet haben. Und das ist äußerst profitabel für die Besitzer dieser Strukturen der Daseinsvorsorge.

Urban Politics
Seminar room 2
18:15
18:15
15min
De-Urbanising Health: Tech Libertarianism and Biotechnological Experimentation on Roatán Island
Niloufar Vadiati

This talk examines the transformation of Roatán Island, Honduras, into a site of biotechnological experimentation and libertarian health governance. It asks how ventures promoting ideas such as “Hacking Death” not only reconfigure notions of health and the human body, but also reshape the public-spatialised setting of human bodies: urbanisation.

Urban Politics
Seminar room 3
18:30
18:30
90min
Dinner
Münzenbergsaal
18:30
90min
Dinner
Salon
18:30
90min
Dinner
Seminar room 1
18:30
90min
Dinner
Seminar room 2
18:30
90min
Dinner
Seminar room 3
18:30
90min
Dinner
Seminar room 7
19:00
19:00
90min
Kritische “KI”-Stadtführung
Hubi & Sarah, Deleted User

Wie verändert “KI” den urbanen Raum? Auf der kritischen “KI”-Stadtführung gehen wir gemeinsam auf Spurensuche: Von einem gescheiterten “KI”-Selbstbedienungsladen bis hin zum sogenannten Amazon Tower. Unterwegs ergründen wir, wie die Infrastruktur rund um den “KI”-Hype das Stadtbild direkt und indirekt prägt.

Urban Politics
Other
20:00
20:00
60min
Widerstandsstrategien
Cable Resist

Widerstandsstrategien

General Program
Münzenbergsaal
21:00
21:00
60min
Evening program
Münzenbergsaal
21:00
60min
Evening program
Salon
21:00
60min
Evening program
Seminar room 1
21:00
60min
Evening program
Seminar room 2
21:00
60min
Evening program
Seminar room 3
21:00
60min
Evening program
Seminar room 7
21:00
15min
Investigative Recherchetechnik "gleiche Wörter"
Jens Sommer, Schrannes Hader, Nein B. Karon

Hier bekommen drei Journalisten die Gelegenheit, in aller Ausführlichkeit zu erklären, wie sie es schaffen, Begriffe im Internet in verschiedenen Dokumenten wiederzufinden, wie sie daraus ominöse Anschuldigungen konstruieren und darüber dann skandalöse Artikel zusammendichten. Vermutlich sind wir aber auch in 5 Minuten durch.

Other
10:00
10:00
420min
Arts Space (Sunday)
Cable Resist, Art Space Lause 10

Splitted Art event taking place in Lause 10 & conference ground

Art Exhibition & Diskussions with artists at Lausitzer Straße 10. Starting at April 9th with a vernissage and a panel dicussion at Lause 10. The exhibition is up to April 17th.

Additional art works on view during the conference at FMP1.

Arts
Lause (arts space)
10:00
60min
Big Tech Violence oder Military Big Tech
Cable Resist, mal, Kerstin (Rheinmetall Entwaffnen), Antony Löwenstein

Overview Panel on Military with Athony Löwenstein, mal & Rheinmetall Entwaffnen.
Chair: Simin Jawah (tbc)

Militarisation
Münzenbergsaal
10:00
30min
Big Tech made in Germany? Formierung eines nationalen Tech-Narrativs
Anna

Unter dem Label digitale Souveränität wird momentan massiv in digitale Infrastrukturprojekte „made in Germany“ investiert. Unternehmen greifen darunter direkt in KI-Entwicklung, Wissenschaft und Bildung ein und rufen dabei eine nationale (digitale) Identität an. Soziale Bewegungen stehen vor der Aufgabe, lokale politische Praxis zu entwickeln, die den transnationalen Zusammenhang im Blick behält.

Fascism
Salon
10:00
30min
Know your enemy: Sex and Violence within the Machinery of Techno-Fascism
Janne Kummer

What kind of fascism are we facing today, and how do tech corporations enable its emergence? This talk explores techno-fascism as a system of power driven by technology, desire, and militarized futures. It traces Silicon Valley’s turn toward state and military collaboration, analyzes sex and intimacy as tools of governance, and asks how this demands new forms of resistance and (self-)defense.

Fascism
Seminar room 1
10:00
30min
Network State Fascism
hoppi

Silicon Valley billionaires are building sovereign tech colonies worldwide to escape democratic oversight. The Network State merges crypto capital, weapons development, and colonial land grabs with accelerationist ideology rooted in racial superiority and eugenics. In their view democracy doesn't just need reform — they demand it be "rebooted" into CEO dictatorship.

Fascism
Seminar room 7
10:00
30min
The AI/Energy/Fascism Nexus: An Anatomy of an Alliance
Apasek

This talk will cover recent shifts in the political economy and business strategies of the US tech sector, tracing how the 'AI arms race' and the investment conditions leading up to it have fostered a mutual alliance between large ICT companies, fossil fuel energy interests, and the far-right.

Fascism
Seminar room 2
10:00
30min
Understanding the Political Attack by Big Tech and Options for Anti-fascist Alliances
Christopher Coenen

Big Tech now often wields direct or almost direct political power. Beyond their similarities to the old media moguls, the IT oligarchs also have a new kind of firm grip on the masses. Big Tech has ideologically paved the way for the reactionary forces and is now striving for a new political order. To develop effective anti-fascist alliances, we need a clearer understanding of these developments.

Fascism
Seminar room 3
10:30
10:30
30min
5 theses on techno-authoritarianism
Maurilio Pirone

Techno-authoritarianism is analyzed as the convergence between platform-driven disintermediation of social reproduction and the centralization of political decision-making in liberal democracies. Accelerated by digitalized global warfare, this process produces new forms of political capitalism, blurring the boundary between market and democracy and calling for alternative politics and technology.

Fascism
Seminar room 1
10:30
30min
Conspiring as Resistance: How to Subvert the Really Fake?
Maria Maddalena Lenzi

This talk examines far-right communicative fascism through the concept of Really Fake, where truth and fiction blur across synthetic media and platformed virality. Through case studies of Trump and Meloni, it explores conspiracy theories and their alternative realities as deliberate tools of far-right world-making, then repurposing conspiring as a collective and subversive practice of resistance.

Fascism
Seminar room 2
10:30
30min
Techno-Faschismus - Damals und Heute
Fred Heussner

Der Vortrag setzt an der aktuellen Techno-Faschismus-Debatte an und kontextualisiert diese vor dem Hintergrund der Debatte über den Zusammenhang von Wirtschaft, Technologie und Nationalsozialismus. Fokus ist die Einführung in zentrale Konzepte & Debatten (zB Reaktionärer Modernismus, Primat-Debatte) sowie Hoch-Technologien & Industrien (zB Treibstoff-Synthese/IG Farben, Flugmotoren/BMW).

Fascism
Salon
11:00
11:00
60min
Automated war-crimes powered by Amazon and the resistance against it
Rainer Rehak, Abbas

There is little reporting in Germany about the genocide in Gaza and the murderous AI targeting systems used by the IDF. However, the role of US big tech remains completely in the dark. Google, Microsoft and, in particular, Amazon provide the IDF with the digital infrastructure necessary for its annihilation of Palestine. This talk will summarize the situation as well as the resistance movements.

Militarisation
Seminar room 1
11:00
60min
Border Profiteers - on the recycling of bare life
hoppi, Marley Bharathi Stefan

"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!

Militarisation
Seminar room 2
11:00
30min
Gewalt? Geteilt!
Lena Rohrbach

In Myanmar und Äthiopien trug Facebook zu Gewalt und Vertreibung bei. Wie Überlebende Meta nun vor Gericht zur Verantwortung ziehen.

Militarisation
Salon
11:00
60min
Techno-Faschismus im Überblick
gast

1) IL (angefragt): Indienstnahme neuester Technologien für eine Faschisierung
2) Lia Becker (angefragt): Rechter Kampf gegen 'Gender-Ideologie' und Trans-Rechte – Antifeminismus als Bewegungskitt einer hochgradig inhomogenen rechten Bewegung
3) capulcu: Krise der Wahrheit als Wegbereiter der Faschisierung

Fascism
Münzenbergsaal
11:30
11:30
30min
Mit Hochtechnologie gegen Migration
Matthias Monroy

Veranstaltung zu neuen Überwachungstechnologien von Frontex

Militarisation
Salon
12:00
12:00
90min
Mittagessen
Münzenbergsaal
12:00
90min
Mittagessen
Salon
12:00
90min
Mittagessen
Seminar room 1
12:00
90min
Mittagessen
Seminar room 2
12:00
90min
Mittagessen
Seminar room 3
12:00
90min
Mittagessen
Seminar room 7
13:30
13:30
30min
Building Backwards: Lessons from an Alternative History of the Web
Daisy, Sarah

How could our society and the Internet look like today? This talk visits a possible alternative timeline of technological and political history, one that leads to a very different 2026. This fictional present is a world of small tech organizations instead of Big Tech conglomerates. What can we learn from this different reality to help materialize a better future?

Futures
Seminar room 1
13:30
30min
Cables Of Hope - Digitale Plattformen vergesellschaften statt Gegenwart reformieren
Malte Engeler, Aline Blankertz

Digitale Plattformen sind greifbare Manifestationen des digitalisierten Kapitalismus. Sie verwalten und kommerzialisieren unser Leben in allen Bereichen und entziehen sich gleichzeitig einer demokratischen Kontrolle. Der Talk möchte ermutigen, die Vergesellschaftung dieser Plattform zu einem zentralen Bestandteil einer transformativen digitalpolitischen Bewegung zu machen.

Futures
Münzenbergsaal
13:30
60min
Can We Build Hardware Without Capitalism?
Terrabyte

Mass chip production depends on mineral extraction, labour exploitation, and billion-dollar fabs. Can hardware exist without these harms, or are they inseparable from computation itself? We will attempt to come up with a framing to distinguish political choices from technical constraints, and ask what we'd have to give up because its incompatible with our values.

Futures
Seminar room 2
13:30
60min
Jenseits von technologischer Alternativlosigkeit: Austauschraum zu Widerstandsstrategien gegen KI
Deleted User, Paul, Sean, Jan, Annie

Interaktiver Workshop in dem in verschiedenen Gruppen folgende Fragestellung bearbeitet wird:
Auf welcher theoretischen und praktischen Grundlage kann eine kritische und widerständige Haltung gegenüber den gegenwärtigen KI-Entwicklungen formuliert werden?

Futures
Seminar room 3
13:30
60min
Konviviale Technik statt Big Tech
Andrea Vetter

Wie könnte eine gerechte und zukunftsfähige digitale Technik aussehen? In diesem Talk wird der Begriff der konvivialen Technik vorgestellt, der eine Perspektive über eine Technik für alle und von allen jenseits des Kapitalismus bietet. Diese Perspektive wollen wir anschließend an den Talk gemeinsam ausprobieren - wir schreiben Science Fiction!

Futures
Seminar room 7
13:30
30min
Tech & Degrowth: imagining the small tech we want
Aureliane Froehlich, Sebastián Uribe

This talk will introduce degrowth as a useful lens for rethinking digital technology and big tech. We will introduce some of the core ideas behind degrowth and examples of degrowth-aligned digital tech, and discuss similarities and potential synergies between both movements.

Futures
Salon
14:00
14:00
30min
A Study of BraziliansTechnopolitical Collectives and the Construction of Autonomous Infrastructures and Digital Alternatives
Maraiza Adami

This conversation discusses data capitalism, the commons, and technopolitical alternatives in Latin America, focusing on collectives that build autonomous digital infrastructures. It highlights how initiatives like MariaLab, MTST’s Tech Center, and Señoritas Courier articulate care, digital sovereignty, and situated knowledge as responses to surveillance and power concentration.

Futures
Seminar room 1
14:00
30min
Eigentümlich anti-sozial? Alternativen zum rechtslibertären Tech-Faschismus
Jonathan

Die Durchsetzung neuer Technologien wird häufig als „Freiheit“ verkauft. Dies ist insbesondere der Fall in Hinblick auf die Entwicklungen der Big-Tech-Unternehmen. Dahingehend lohnt sich ein Blick auf die Ideologie des Rechtslibertarianismus bzw. autoritären Liberalismus. Als Gegenpol dazu wird eine anarchistische Sicht auf den Nutzen von Technologien formuliert.

Futures
Münzenbergsaal
14:00
30min
Struggling against AI’s augmented exploitation and control: pathways and pitfalls
Masoumeh Iran Mansouri

In an earlier recent contribution (Mansouri and Bailey, 2025), we drew on Erik Olin Wright’s (2019) anti-capitalist framework to consider five ‘ways to be anti-AI’: taming AI, resisting AI, dismantling AI, escaping AI and smashing AI. Here, we present a discussion of both the possibilities and potential pitfalls associated with these different pathways towards struggling against AI.

Futures
Salon
14:30
14:30
60min
Forum: Strategy & Organizing
Cable Resist

Strategy & Organizing

General Program
Münzenbergsaal
15:30
15:30
30min
Coffee & Networking
Münzenbergsaal
15:30
30min
Coffee & Networking
Salon
15:30
30min
Coffee & Networking
Seminar room 1
15:30
30min
Coffee & Networking
Seminar room 2
15:30
30min
Coffee & Networking
Seminar room 3
15:30
30min
Coffee & Networking
Seminar room 7
16:00
16:00
30min
Closing Session
Cable Resist

Closing

General Program
Münzenbergsaal