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**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.
Cloud infrastructures are deeply involved in military and oppressive operations that perpetuate racist structures. New forms of colonisation are emerging through digitised oppression, with tech companies entering into lucrative collaborations with oppressive nation-states while benefiting from the circulation of online activism and transnational solidarity. This conversation brings together a network of networks that have been collectively organising for technopolitical change for many years. Through artistic research, techno-disobedience and other means, the constellation resists the financial, extractive mode of Big Tech. During this conversation, participants will share each other's modest proposals with the audience, from Counter Cloud Actions to Digital Discomfort to trans\*feminist servers. Their proposals radically emphasise vernacular, situated, specific technodiversity and work simultaneously at different scales against infrastructural violence. The conversation will be about how we can together break the dependence on the toxic Cloud regime, the anti-colonial potential of these projects but also about uncomfortable and contradictory techno-practices.
