HelenvPritchard

Anti-colonial tech: a conversation

Dedicated to Love

Date: Friday 16 February 2024
Time: 18:30 - 20:00 CET
Location: Varia, Rotterdam (NL)
Registration: Not needed, and there is no entrance fee!

Deeply implicated in military and carceral operations, the infrastructures of The Cloud regime reinforce historical racist structures and support new forms of colonisation through digitised oppression. This public conversation brings together a network of networks that has been organising collectively towards systemic techno-political change for many years. The common desire across this constellation explores modes of resisting the financialised, extractive modes of Big Tech, who profit heavily from online activities on the platforms they provide, turning all content into commodity.

During the event, participants will share modest proposals for moving networks and political engagement away from toxic cloud environments. From Counter Cloud Action to Digital Discomfort and trans★feminist servers, the techno-disobedient practices they share will unsettle computationally mediated depletion, activating paths towards anti-colonial tech.
@titipi@post.lurk.org @varia@gts.varia.zone Digital Discomfort and @constant@post.lurk.org https://varia.zone/en/infraresistance.html

Culmination of the SOLiXG project we have been collaborating on with TITiPI for the past 3 years!
FINAL CONFERENCE: Digital Infrastructure and Imaginations of Sovereignty in Europe, Oct 13-14

Digital technologies are increasingly constructed and sold as infrastructures for national and European security, for resilience against crises and catastrophes, and for ‘digital’ or ‘technological' sovereignty.

From 5G to 6G to XG, digital technologies are driven by constant updates. At each iteration, they promise more bandwidth and connectivity, less latency and better technical ‘solutions’ for urgent social problems, ranging from climate crises to demographic change.

How do contemporary XG-Infrastructures allow or enshrine different ideas of sovereignty and community? Who are the emerging subjects of ‘digital sovereignty’ and who are the subjected? What contradictions and conflicts emerge - and how could we imagine alternatives?

Day 1 will kick off the event with an hybrid keynote in the evening by Cecilia Rikap (University College London) on 'digital sovereignty' and corporate power.

To Join the keynote virtually, you may pre-register here.

https://www.solixg.net/activities/final-conference