__NO PUBLISH__

To do:
-Needs a title
-Decide if it is a workshop or paper / Miriyam thinks we should go for a workshop -- we go with a combo option
-To cut down on the word count (max 600 wrds)
-Bibliography / references (Cass will do this)
-The questions at the end? Do we want / need these?
-To tighten the framework and see what is missing
-Jara section at Line 34, question about this? <- this might fall out, for another occasion (more re the figuration of portal workers, in fact)

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possible structure submission, 3 parts: 1 analysis/2 argument/3 questions. [?] 

what's happening [we give knowledge]
what do we make of that [we put in our innovative/radical arguments]
what new situations does it lead to [what questions do we have/how can a critical debate with you all help us formulate/we don't only give answers, maybe just more and more questions]


FINAL ABSTRACT: 
Not so frequently asked questions (on green Big Tech as a counterinsurgent force)

1
In his groundbreaking study, Walter Rodney (1972) famously shows that the colonisation of Africa was a key link in a chain of events which made possible the technological transformation that was also at the base of European capitalism. What Rodney analysed about Africa during 500 years of ongoing domination is not very different from the indispensable dependency of computational domination and settler-colonial repression in today's politics. Then he was referring to expropriation through primitive accumulation of iron, chrome, uranium, copper and cobalt--which today have made possible the cloud apparatus, the control of energy supplies, the construction and maintenance of data centers, and the manufacturing of chips--all as the core business of Western capitalism held and reproduced within the sociotechnical scheme of the liberal order. (add references)

2
But in present times, the liberal order that schemes the grounds for the green and digital transition is modeled and operated by the logics of Big Tech. Hence, we are confronted with another return of the imperial boomerang. Just as Aimé Césaire described how fascism "applied to Europe, colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for [the colonies]" (citation), the current manifestation of the "Tech-Right" [ref https://itsgoingdown.org/good-night-tech-right-pull-the-plug-on-ai-fascism/] increasingly imposes a fascistic ruling logic based on exploitation, repression of free speech, and heightened political or physical violence that is first tested through technological means in places such as Palestine [Palestine Laboratory ref?], Kenya [ref https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/], or Mexico [ref https://theintercept.com/2025/04/03/google-cbp-ai-border-surveillance-ibm-equitus/]. This is not merely a question of corporate responsibility; Big Tech is not only complacent with but is itself the essence of counterinsurgency: it is the most world-making, overpresent, immediate materialisation of the imperial boomerang in our times.

3
We are most invested in interrogating the present contradictions because by unveiling the systemic paradoxes we can better resist the system itself. In our practices as academics, artists, designers, researchers, and organizers, we have been developing formats such as FAQs, manuals, and bulletins, to reach each other in different geopolitical scenes in our resistance against the genocidal and ecocidal violence of Big Tech. Through this, we look for ways to: share knowledge for climate action storytelling, do bug-reporting on big tech, make toolkits, provide vocabularies or build community infrastructures. 

4
For this workshop, we propose a collective space to continue the sharpening of questions to keep rehearsing insurgency against Big Tech, particularly in its green techno-solutionist character. In that spirit, the Infrastructural Rehearsals Collective has put together an NSFAQ (not so frequently asked questions) to start to collectively formulate a shared vocabulary that circulates these questions and their potential grapplings with in spaces of anti-colonial resistance. By reimagining the typical form of the FAQ, we challenge the offering of quick fixes as the typical method. Formulating for ourselves the most urgent questions is more important than seeking the answers the Big Tech oligarchs can provide in relation to the the (so-called) green and digital transition.

[1 turn into questions; 2 add war that meanwhile happened; 3 mention multi-layered/different temporalities; 4 relate [triple]triangulation to nsfaq
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[general focus of IR] 
Histories of domination have lead us to the intersecting crises of capital, fascism, and ecocide, where we find ourselves confronted with the green techno-solutionism of the "so-called" green and digital transition. State and Corporate Actors, as well as cultural institutions, might describe the green and digital twin transition as the twinning of addressing sustainable frameworks for societal resilience to climate collapse. However, this over-solutionist activity is exacerbating the issues.

[bio]- is it a bio or an introduction of what will happen during the session? yeah sorry i was planning to move this parapgrah up and reduce it a bit
and then keep the bio down
ahh sure sure



Bibliography: 



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PREVIOUS VERSION, 13/10/25 

possible structure submission, 3 parts: 1 analysis/2 argument/3 questions. [?] 

what's happening [we give knowledge]
what do we make of that [we put in our innovative/radical arguments]
what new situations does it lead to [what questions do we have/how can a critical debate with you all help us formulate/we don't only give answers, maybe just more and more questions]

title:
[brainstorming...]

    [now at 846 words] (should technically be between 400-600, but can be longer since it is a workshop)
1.
In his groundbreaking study, Walter Rodney (1972) famously shows that the colonisation of Africa was a key link in a chain of events which made possible the technological transformation that was also at the base of European capitalism. What Rodney analysed about Africa during 500 years of (ongoing) domination is not very different from the indispensable dependency of technological domination and (settler-)colonial repression in today's politics. Then he was referring to expropriation through primitive accumulation of iron, chrome, uranium, copper and cobalt--which today have made possible the cloud apparatus, the control of energy supplies, the construction and maintenance of data centers, and the manufacturing of chips--all as the core business of Western capitalism held and reproduced within the sociotechnical scheme of the liberal order. (I can add a couple references here)

Thus, these histories of domination have lead us to the intersecting crises of capital, fascism, and ecocide, where we find ourselves confronted with the green techno-solutionism of the "so-called" green and digital transition. [first time this notion appears, might need a quick definition/ref?]

In our work as The Infrastructural Rehearsals Collective, we address the complexity of this moment by figuring out tools, methods, creative strategies and technologies [communities are providing themselves with,] to build capacity for international solidarity and resistance. In this workshop proposal, we will  ...

2.
We are in a time when the ruling order has major problems regaining its legitimacy. We build on two directions from the famous words of Gramsci “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: Now is the time of monsters.” As if written today, these monstrous forces are all around us, from genocidal practices to fascists who capitalize on the instability by taking more power and wealth for themselves in the process. For Gramsci the interregnum refers to a period when times of uncertainty and reactionary forces merge and create “monsters”. We connect this liminal stage to the hegemonic authoritarianism of Big Tech. The current manifestation of the "Tech-Right" can be seen in the increased imposition of a fascistic ruling logic based on exploitation, repression of free speech, and heightened political or physical violence wielded by the State and its actors through technological means. This is not merely a question of corporate responsibility, Big Tech is not only complacent with but is itself the essence of counterinsurgency. 

Conversely, contrary to counterrevolution being a sign of ruling class superiority, this monstrosity is precisely because it can no longer maintain its dominance. For Gramsci, the space of limbo is that of a vacuum where the revolutionary class has not consolidated power. Due to this, we are confronted with another return of the imperial boomerang. Just as Aimé Césaire described how Hitler "applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for [the colonies]", (citation) we see the Foucauldian manifestation, where colonialism turned inward becomes fascism. After over 75 years of brutal apartheid in Palestine faciliated by the development of surveillance and military technologies based in Silicon Valley, and centuries of counterinsurgency waged across the globe through the American military, "the chickens have come home to roost" as the ICE gestapo and national guard are deployed across the US.

While the political horizons of liberation and freedom are very clear and its demands raised much larger, a just system has not yet succeeded. This is when counterrevolution and revolutionary dynamics clash at the sharpest ends. Resistance amidst the most difficult to penetrate corporations and least unionised sector has evolved in unprecedented ways. As we saw with [examples from Microsoft newsletter/from IR FAQ?], new movements and ideologies do arise. But we are not fully able to shape a united and coherent alternative to replace the old system. In this vacuum, the first shapes of resistance have emerged, as people are rising up in the face of unprecedented state violence to put their bodies on the line to protect their neighbors from ICE, and in San Francisco and LA, making direct connections to the surveillance devices that makes these state-sanctioned abductions possible, by burning Teslas and Waymos to the ground. 

3
Not very different from the notion "limbo", we consider this [green/cloud?]  transformation  [spell out in relation to 1] as a temporal phenomenon that inhibits both hope and despair. (Maybe we can cut this section? Or find a way to more briefly return to it?) [<-- portal/impasse/threshold -- maybe of help as a semantic net for this section?] -- from the notes below: "Setting up of New Deals, it is an antagonist counter-weight to rehearsal as a form of praxis. This gradualism carries along developmentistic forces (gradualism vs rehearsal as orientations (rhytms?), modes -> portal work)

Ignoring academic conventions where questions are followed by answers, we are more interested in discussing collectively what we grapple with. We are most invested in interrogating the present contradictions because by unveiling the systemic paradoxes we can better resist the system itself.  In our practices as academics, artists, designers, researchers, and organizers, we have been developing formats such as FAQs, manuals, and bulletins, to reach each other in different geopolitical scenes in our resistance against the genocidal and ecocidal violence of Big Tech. These materials are often not perfect, and move across different materialisms, whilst attempting to also craft an intersectional insurgency. Through this, we look for ways to: share knowledge for climate action storytelling, do bug-reporting on big tech, make toolkits, provide vocabularies or build community infrastructures. 
 
Concretely, we want to take this moment with our comrades in attendance, to ask: 

a. To formulate not so frequently asked questions in relation to the distribution of insurgent and counterinsurgent forces within the transversal struggles that include the abolition of the structures of oppression and green colonialism.
b. 
c. 
 
[e.g. from IR RQs?] / Or from the FAQ might be better?

-Build upon the FAQ but from the position of the counterinsurgency of Big Tech in this particular moment, and how it informs understandings of, and the implementation of the Green and Digital transition. What is at stake? How does this define the forms of resistance or potential imaginaries that are possible?



Bibliography: 



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In this current moment of immense genocidal and state violence we ask how can we still make space for the not-so-often asked questions that might be part of a movement towards resisting Big Tech fascism as colonialism turned inward. 

We want to take this moment with our comrades in attendance to further expand upon a previous FAQ in relation to the Green and Digital Transition 

to make space for the clumsy gestures, that don't request a perfect meticulous argument, and see the demand of a perfect anti-imperialism as depleting to our movements and to be together in association.


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Abstract Writing Session, 9/10/25, @ 10.00-12.30
Present: Cassandra, Femke, Cristina, Jara, Miriyam
Helen (making financial report! )

10.00 -- Check-in
10.05 -- Orienting ourselves in relation to the call
10.15 -- Intro of my proposal(s) / further discussion + additional thoughts
10.45 -- Collection of main points to continue working with
10.50 -- Break
11.15 -- Miriyam joins us / catch her up with where we currently are
11.10 -- Continued discussing, writing and working
12.20 -- Next steps, to dos for finishing, submitting, etc.
12.30 -- End

https://www.decolonialconference.org/call-for-proposals
Deadline October 12th, Midnight PDT

https://lapca.org/ (a Smithsonian affiliation)

"What’s not so common is admitting that counterinsurgency greatly depends on those who should otherwise form part of an uprising or insurrection. The greatest enemies of a revolutionary movement come from within. Those who one would expect to hold more radical positions instead offer their services to counterinsurgency. Reactionary forces in colonial and neocolonial contexts are easily activated when signatories—and aspiring signatories—of a centrally gendered racial-colonial capitalist system of domination and exploitation perceive that the privileges they’ve attained through violence will be stripped away by the insurgents who have a stronger claim to what has been denied to them for far too long."

We thus encourage paper, symposium, and workshop proposals to be linked and accountable to ongoing struggles, proposals that break away from academic conventions. We are particularly interested in amplifying those directly involved in organizing and movement building, as well as interrogating and resisting counterinsurgency. Topics may include (but not limited to):

Proposals can be 400-600 words. 

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How the IR project relates to the thematics of the conference / potential points of entry or relevance:






Notes:

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"What’s not always so obvious is the insidious yet subtle ways reactionary forces ideologically and physically infiltrate a revolutionary movement to fragment it."

"Reformist counterinsurgency “attempts to solicit, pacify, and discipline the gathering force so it better comports with the progressivist narrative of ‘America’ as well as the transparent, deadly normativities of Civilization. This is an old story, but one worth telling again, with urgency”."

"The Decolonial Conference is committed to confronting the material conditions of domination, exploitation, dispossession, and genocide—while simultaneously dreaming and enacting a world otherwise."

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-Lack of presence of techno-fascism and it's role within this current moment or how it is organizing 

Emergency of counterinsurgency from within a revolutionary movement, one thing that could be grounded through specific situations or cases that relate to our shared research. What occupies us as researchers, when J is reading, the counterinsurgency aspect that comes to mind is digital sovereignty 
Reformist forces operate gradual, is also key in so called transitions. It is part of the "sneaky moments"
-Settin up of New Deals, it is an antagonist counter-weight to rehearsal as a form of praxis. Thsi gradualism carries along developmentistic forces (gradualism vs rehearsal as orientations (rhytms?), modes -> portal work)
-When they speak about scholasticide, how these counter-insurgency forces drink from gestures of dissassociation from the struggles, how they separate themselves by being in the Ivory Tower
-Geneologies and histories, 
-Interconnected struggles and looking more centrally at the environmental justice struggles and the proposal to write on how these insurgencies are interconnected, but how from within counterinsurgencies might also be interconnected in the liberal order. 

what could be contributions: 
link genocide-ecocide via pervasiveness of big tech and institutions
is this call already dissasotiated!? or not yet? how/why?

liberal institutions as source of counter-insurgency

what would it mean to bring these very specific case studies from elsewhere?
refs seem to be focused on US.

follow up in some things in our FAQ

intersting still that it's coming from US -> where is the front of these things been lead in the imaginary

what's happening in the fjords, grenoble or extremadura,-- interconnected struggles

for us to be thinking of an active take of the opportunity of it not being an academic conference in the university - take seriously the invitation of not doing smth that doesnt align with the academic standards/formats

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CASS intuitions:
    take the FAQ and develop more, think with these ideas in re to one element, etc.
    if it's looking in big tech in LA, the heart of the crisis, adjecent to the belly of the beast and how things are felt/expressed there?
    
    
    counter-ingurgent forms imposed by big tech, how it's functioning and proliferating
    
    F: it's there but it feels it's so normalized that it's not put forward
    
    no tech for apartheid 
    imperial boomerang
    
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I think there's an abstract here, in the FAQ, already?
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to be explicit about the twin transitions as a key move of the empire, we did not write that down explicitly

in the TM text on anti-colonial tech we were trying to do that. Zionist and sillicon valley is there. 
there we directly address the violence and connections, and the relation to colonial histories 

detecting the counterinsurgency within
is it an interconnected struggle or is it the same struggle, against zionism operating from within?
these imperial and colonial struggles are already connected, the same struggle is fragmented into pieces by these counterinsurgent forces as if they were separate rather than being two instances of the same struggle

it's happening at an art museum that is a community center
curious about the work they do outside of academia, and what are the current practices and affinities 

One of the main people was an academic who was fired for speaking out about the genocide and what decolonization really means. The need to have a conference 
They could also cancel our visas. What would it look like, what would you say.
When you're confrinted with the reality to have a conference that is organized by a lot of academics, but how do you phrase of what you want to say, and how would you want to it? What would be an original, thought-provoking public intellectual endeavour? Rarely in this position to thikn in realtion to this.
Actually proactive framework, the aspects of the cloud and techno fascist violence get blocked out in these moments. Imagine the possibility of going to LA and being there with an incredible concentration of comrades thinking along these lines. 
Our constant return to the question of instituting otherwise? Academia is the enemy, and made to shut us up. 
those are ppl that think like us, declare academia the enemy -- going there would bring a pull of contacts
Being only online makes it so there is 
We would work woth the hybrid format, so that some people could be there so there would be a coherent template 

Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores
https://jairofunez.substack.com/
https://www.insurgentthoughts.com/p/open-letter-in-support-of-jairo-i
https://substack.com/@insurgentthoughts
https://www.aera.net/SIG153/Who-We-Are
https://lapca.org/
https://www.insurgentthoughts.com/p/open-letter-in-support-of-jairo-i?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1200679&post_id=143263200

is a hybrid participation possible?

JR: interest in the format, to go for the FAQ
use the call to deepen a part of it
Cass: more like what is raised in the FAQ; what aspects feel important to continue. Although continuing the format is also very apt and useful in this context 
Thinking about the anti-colonial tech text for TM, working in proximity to the belly of the beast in Silicon Valley and the very recent uprisings to the ICE raids and how big tech infra was the recipient and object of resistance. Bird scooters thrown on cop cars, Waymos burned in the streets.

Inspired to describe the counterinsurgent forces in green and chrome transition

Ths shared struggle of twin transitions as a framework, to reverse 
The counterinsurgency os what produces fragmentation. 
the struggle is shared, not to buy the narrative of 'connecting our struggles', they are already connected
fragmentation and coalition

pay attention to temporality of transition, reformist behaviour as gradualism/developmentist/progressivist (digital sovereignty) vs rehearsal
antagonistic to rehearsal.
good occasion to think in a more nuanced manner what we think with transition. if it's not a gradual transition, but a rehearsed transition, then why?

conceptual framework is triangular: temporality (transitions), the understanding of counterinsurgency through the prism of green and tech, 

what has already been done is the starting point of the prism: the cloud, energy, supply chain, there needs to be a choice. the prism that is a way to ask these questions: conceptual framework is quite sharp, not only saying big tech is a counterinsurgent agent, but it is also doung an analysis in terms of resistance and reissting teh counterinsrugency and what it does to the reality we're discussung. green transition ois not just a prop, but in teh actual changes and the framing that is presented by teh conference. Bring together due to it's location and people involved, Indigenous, anti-colonial struggle, etc. How have Coulthard and other Indigenous Marxists have critiqued and thought about this context. 
Re-imagination in relation to counterinsurgency

1. temporality (transitions, rehearsals)
2. green and tech (empirical prism)
3. counterinsurgency and fragmentation
4? reimagination

prism<>kaleidoscope? hahah was just thinking ... it's a mirroring actually
empirical portals ;) yes

not only describing what big tech is doing as a counterinsurgent agent, but also an analysis of what that means in terms of resistance. in terms of resisting counterinsurgency, not just using climate and green transition as a prop, but talking about it as a 

anti-imperial, decolonial and indigenous struggle
imagination and reimagination as a form of resistance
--> hey and also memorizing/remembering (wider historical perspective) yes

political economy critique and indigenous critique brought together from the prism of green
how does Indigenous resistance figure into this? what are the potential sites of resistance?
the relationships between Sami resistance, and histories of struggle that have connected Sami resistance and people on Turtle Island

M: As someone in teh audience, woudl leik to be taught something new. Part of this needs to be describing and analyzing that this thing is hapening. Decolonial context is to describe teh history, but often stuck within this mode. 100%

Yes, it is happening -- how futures are being forged, gradually.

To have questions (there are many unanswered in the FAQ btw). What are the dillemmas? We want this space to be a space of debate and discussion. The 2 or 3 questions, how to reconcile the ethnographic, how to bring together these struggles without them being props. 

ask not so frequently asked questions

ah loving the not-and-not-so-often asked questions - not so FAQs <3

The disagreements taht we have as well in realtion to the nature of political economy, the forms of resistance or struggles. That we can 

1. Identifying, articulating through the prism of twin transition
2. (re)Imagining counterinsurgency and how to resist it
3. Not-so-often asked questions or dilemmas -- a discursive situation 

not just going to present, but coming back with new things as well
could prepare for an interview 

being in contact with militants on the ground, we could then come with an idea of being in dialogue with those there, and potential doing interviews as well 
past, present, and future memeories as a method -- imagining backwards of what didn't fall into the histories of our written struggles 

Absolutely great idea to do interviews! E.g. we can interview Jairo funes flores. This could be part of the method of imaginations oral histories in the present 

Cass will be taking the lead -- in terms of where to go next: helpful to understand what is the framework, if we are going with the prism -- 
unfortunately unless we want to discuss this further, we are in the paper/panel presenttion kind of format; if there's a desire to do smth out of that, how?

M: "Absolutely great idea to do interviews! E.g. we can interview Jairo funes flores. This could be part of the method of imaginations oral histories in the present" 

is it a prismatic FAQ somehow? (not anti?)
What are the different planes of the prism? 
Dizzy with the different optics of exploration in the project, kaleidoscope is also present as well.

Thinking about the line of questioning in this book and the project 
https://www.commonnotions.org/everything-for-everyone

effects of transformation and transition, this time of transition is also a time of monsters. transition also means it's not clear.
so you have to have questions, it is full of unknowns
would be an oxymoron to have answers in the midst of a transitoin

Can still with the prismatic FAQ -- 

The prismatic or refractive aspects, including the imperial boomerang -- of what is refracting and reflecting in this moment. The forms of technofascism that we see manifesting in this moments and their connections to colonial and imperial violence, and the technological devices of the green transition that are reproducing them. 

- tech fascism, we need to talk about this idea
- imperial boomerang - good fork in the road
--> those two could work to bring together the presentation of the case study we're working on, no work to be done apart from selecting from what's already there (FAQ text has everything already, it's now a question of selecting) -- give it an insight strand

+plus commentary around these terms like imp boomerang, tech fascism, etc
idea about trasnformation and transition
clearly denotes a new transform of olds systems and temporal transition
the not commonly asked questions at the end. 

what is shared in the paper:
-innovative research 
-analysis of the political world we're in: tech fascism and the imperial boomerang 
-we're in this new moment, so that we can understand and continue the project by then being in disucssion 

not just the endpoint, but part of the collection of knowledge and ethnographic and imperial material
parallel line of communication with the organisers
write to them and see if we can interview and be in dialogue with them. discuss what we want to do

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1. Identifying, articulating through the prism of twin transition
2. (re)Imagining counterinsurgency and how to resist it
3. Not-so-often asked questions or dilemmas -- a discursive situation 


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ABSTRACT DRAFT: 10/10/25, 400-600 words

1 analysis/2 argument/3 questions. 
i.e.

1 is from our existing texts/FAQ etc
2 is what we can come up with. 
3 is what we can relate to temporality/sort-sector/ongoing questions

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In this paper, 
In this current moment of immense genocidal and state violence we ask how can we still make space for the not-so-often asked questions that might be part of a movement towards international solidarity. 
In our practices we have been developing formats such as FAQs, manuals, and bulletins, to reach each other in different geopolitical scenes in our resistance against the genocidal and ecocidal violence of Big Tech. These materials are often not perfect, and move across different materialisms, whilst attempting to also craft an intersectional insurgency. We want to take this moment with the attendees of the confernence to make space for the clumsy gestures, that don't request a perfect meticulous argument, and see the demand of a perfect anti-imperialism as depleting to our movements and to be together in association. We want to understand how this might also be part of an imperial boomerang that we impose internally inside our community, despite the decades of intersectional, queer and crip practices that suggest otherwise. Here we are inspired by imaginations such as ordering Waymo cars and setting them on fire during the LA Riots against ICE, or by tabling zines at anarchist fairs or distrubting stickers. We want to say that some messiness is pretty important and necessary in confronting the tech fascism we are facing, that seems to only be able to be resisted by working out what its actually doing.. but at the same time as the road is only made by walking it, and we just have to know how to take the next elegant step, .....
We propose to make an FAQ of imperfect militant research together 


-"Chickens coming home to roost", Malcolm X 
-Imperial boomerang, Aime Cesaire 
-Examples of this from the Transmediale Anti-colonial tech intro text (need to find this!)
-Texts about the LA Riots against ICE
(Which ones?)
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/june/ice-s-war-on-home

Brian Merchant Substack
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-weaponization-of-waymo
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/torching-the-google-car-why-the-growing (2024)
Brian Merchant book https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-merchant/blood-in-the-machine/9780316487740/
Paris Marx
Taylor Lorenz

-at the end of our group convo, we decided that we wanted to use / think through the imperial boomerang to talk about the present technofascist moment. which i know is something we had spoken about before and that you were thinking about
-yeah! and i think it works really well in relation to genocidal violence in palestine and then the violence in LA and the riots against ICE where big tech was also a direct and deliberate target
-and to use this as an opportunity to continue the FAQ, but to strengthen / development in this direction


In this paper we will ....

At the end, we want to open up a space for comradely dialogue by addressing the not-so-often asked questions  or dilemmas that we face in our techno-fascist present. 





Qs to bring to the workshop:
    
- tech fascism, we need to talk about this idea
- imperial boomerang - good fork in the road
--> those two could work to bring together the presentation of the case study we're working on, no work to be done apart from selecting from what's already there (FAQ text has everything already, it's now a question of selecting) -- give it an insight strand
-- how green colonialism terminology apply in a context of struggles for indigenous sovereignity in turtle island = 
cass:12:32 which could be, what does it mean to grapple with these questions in Turtle Island, and the ongoing processes of colonization here?
-- counter-insurgergency from within -- in twin transitions context / green technosolutionism becomes a form of counter-insurgency from within climate justice, ngos, non-prfits, etc.




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Bio: The Infrastructural Rehearsals Collective investigates and collaborates on imaginative community-led responses to the climate crisis under fossil-fuel driven racial capitalism today. We make proposals and interventions that challenge top-down hegemonic approaches from green-washing tech capitalists to state-sponsored initiatives. As academics, artists, designers, researchers, activists, organizers and cultural workers we bring our experiences from different fields of knowledge, practices and terrains of struggle (Barcelona, Basel, Brussels, London, and Rotterdam). Together we figure out tools, methods, creative strategies and technologies to build capacity for international solidarity and resistance. While being embedded in a wider network of associated groups and collaborators, the Infrastructural Rehearsals Collective came together through an initiative by the Critical Media Lab and TITiPI. Through this, we look for ways to: share knowledge for climate action storytelling, do bug-reporting on big tech, make toolkits, provide vocabularies or build community infrastructures. Drawing upon Ruth Wilson Gilmore's idea of abolition as life in rehearsal, we look to model “the future from the present” by using our institutional resources towards actively making platforms, generatively problematizing deadly technosocial paradigms, or facilitating knowledge and skills that can be openly shared and redistributed. As Big Tech Cloud abolitionists, we're rehearsing in its ruins, organizing towards a world in which many words fit.



The Infrastructural Rehearsals Collective investigates and collaborates on imaginative community-led responses to the climate crisis under fossil-fuel driven racial capitalism today. We make proposals and interventions that challenge top-down hegemonic approaches from green-washing tech capitalists to state-sponsored initiatives. As academics, artists, designers, researchers, activists, organizers and cultural workers we bring our experiences from different fields of knowledge, practices and terrains of struggle (Barcelona, Basel, Brussels, London, and Rotterdam). Together we figure out tools, methods, creative strategies and technologies to build capacity for international solidarity and resistance. While being embedded in a wider network of associated groups and collaborators, the Infrastructural Rehearsals Collective came together through an initiative by the Critical Media Lab and TITiPI. Through this, we look for ways to: share knowledge for climate action storytelling, do bug-reporting on big tech, make toolkits, provide vocabularies or build community infrastructures. Drawing upon Ruth Wilson Gilmore's idea of abolition as life in rehearsal, we look to model “the future from the present” by using our institutional resources towards actively making platforms, generatively problematizing deadly technosocial paradigms, or facilitating knowledge and skills that can be openly shared and redistributed. As Big Tech Cloud abolitionists, we're rehearsing in its ruins, organizing towards a world in which many words fit.