TITiPI

Who and what is the worldwide expansion of digital infrastructure serving?

A roundtable with: @lenuageetaitsousnospieds@piaille.fr @doriane@post.lurk.org @technopolice_be@agenda.collectifs.net @Medor_mag@mastodon.social #NotBigTechWorkgroup #ExuinoxInitiativeForRacialJustice in collaboration with Les Soulèvements de la Terre.

Wednesday 24/6 @19:00, Pianofabriek, Elsenor (Rue du Fortstraat 35, Brussels)

:trebuchet: Zinelaunch!

Saturday 20/06 at 19:00

At Kaaistudio, Rue Notre-Dame-du-Sommeil 81, 1000 Bruxelles

You are invited to celebrate the end of so-called AI with the launch of /Aïe: Ms. Authenticity Gets Sick/, a zine by Lucy Perineau and Pierre Huyghebaert

This 48-page, bilingual (English/French) publication talks about how algorithmic overload is making cultural workers and organisations feel sick, and proposes a few ways to feel better. For instance, come and drink CO2-captured sparkling water with us and get a free copy.

A coproduction by ENCC, @Kaaitheater@mastodon.social TITiPI and @constant@post.lurk.org

Download the digital version of the zine with active links (pdf - 13,3 MB): https://encc.eu/aie

A sheet of stickers (French only) is available to download and print (pdf - 3,3 MB): https://www.cesep.be/ia-stickers <https://www.cesep.be/ia-stickers>

+ info -> https://encc.eu/articles/aie

📚 🤩 Online Booklaunch!
⏰ June 9th, 11h CET

We are so happy to invite you to the launch of *Unsettling Data: Mapping Labour and Land against the Representationalist Legal Form*, a very special publication by Dilan Dagaz. The book examines what prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land, by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer and the observed.

The event will pivot around a panel discussion with Cristina Cochior, Prof. Angela Dely, Dr. Ozan Kamiloglu, Prof (retd.) Usha Raman, Nayantara Ranganathan and Prof Joris van Hoboken.

Dilan worked on this path for his PhD dissertation, and his critical positionality placed him out of academia, which we as TITiPI understand as a gesture both liberating and difficult. Since then, his practice has continued to unfold a sensibility on witchcraft against fascism, as a result of the deep problematization of the rigid configuration of so-called reality that Dilan approaches as an ongoing endeavour.

+ details: https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Unsettling_data_book_launch

Pre-order: https://framaforms.org/pre-order-unsettling-data-1779199442

A printable soft copy is available under Migrantifa BY-NC license.

Register to join the event on BBB (thank you @constant@post.lurk.org !) https://framaforms.org/register-unsettling-data-book-launch-1779195057

"The Cloud is a Factory" Series: lecture "Cloud Capitalism" by Devika Narayan on March 16th & reverse-seminar workshop on the 17th, together with TITiPI members Seda Gürses & Miriyam Aouragh to engage with the concerns on how clouds and mobile devices in our pockets have become the taken-for-granted foundations of contemporary society. What are the consequences of this far-reaching influence of ‘tech’? How did it become embedded in a broader capitalist logic?

Livestream here -> https://spui25.nl/live

+ infos:
https://www.spui25.nl/programma/the-cloud-is-a-factory-cloud-capitalism
https://algosoc.org/events/workshop-cloud-capitalism

Tomorrow, online workshop "Not so frequently Asked Questions (On Green Big Tech as a Counterinsurgent Force)" a the Decolonial Conference

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. 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.

+ info https://www.decolonialconference.org/

✨ TITiPI was interviewed by Kate Rich for @FoAM@fff.fo.am circa a year ago (!) and we are happy to finally share that conversation publicly.

Instituting for TITiPI is an attempt to go against an as-a-service approach where everything should be flexible and instantaneous. Instead, we want to structure for collective generosity and exuberance at a time when too many things are on fire. So TITiPI's critique is not anti-institutional but about the need to institute otherwise. It is linked to the particular abolitionist politics we are committed to, which means we need to think about what infrastructures we need to dismantle, as much as which ones we need to build.
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Public interest should be about these modes of care, of supporting life, beyond just a basic idea of care – and we shouldn’t shy away from practical solutions either! That's the type of reimagining we're interested in: that the public interest might be that. And then how to do that is really hard!
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That reimagining happens across space-times including rebellious memories, inventive side-steps or uncomfortable prospections, so it's not only the projection of a future of linear progress, in a developmentist sense. That is one of the fundamental spell-breakings

✨ Full interview here -> https://anarchive.fo.am/silver/technology_in_the_public_interest/

🍃 Barceona, next Tuesday, July 14 at 18h

Two editorial objects will be presented in Sala Ricson, crystallizing some of the learnings from InfraManteniment, a line of practical research that Hangar has promoted over the last four years to dedicate attention, time, and resources to creating, repairing, maintaining, or even dismantling infrastructures of all kinds.

The LaaS (Life as a Service) poster collection has been co-produced with TITiPI (The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest) and gathers the research mobilized by Jara Rocha on the vital consequences of the implementation of cloud computing. In political-aesthetic terms, it is a regime that prescribes the feasible and the thinkable, flattens and standardizes the most everyday experience, stiffens the material conditions of possibility in the distribution of the experience with the technological, and imposes logistically mediated schemes of subjectivity and coexistence. In their presentation, Jara will share their experience during the Hangar-La Virreina fellowship and will navigate their narrative compendium in wiki format. The four posters designed by Alix Turcq—in several languages and with variegated routes—stir the voices of the collaborators, interviewees, and accomplices summoned during the research process.

+ info: https://hangar.org/en/agenda-hangar/espanol-presentacion-inframanteniment-coleccion-de-posters-laas-publicacion-almacen/

Contre la « souveraineté numérique » https://stopmicro38.noblogs.org/post/2026/07/08/contre-la-souverainete-numerique/

We are at an impasse, a sort of transitional spacetime for resisting differently. While arguments are piling up to radically intervene in how computational infrastructures are governed, developed and financed, how to refuse killer-tech when it is in our pockets? Which practices and methods do we need to abolish what we call the regime of the cloud, it we can’t afford a binary refusal?
In this session, Jara and Femke will discuss portalling as a way to work with and through contradictions, without already knowing what to do. Portals are sociotechnical passages which need to stay thick, contradictory, probably mutually exclusive and interdependent in any case.

On May 5th at 15h we are contributing to a gathering dedicated to the possible futures and autonomies of artistic research, organized by a.pass at Wiels (Brussels)

+ info on OpenField: program & registration form https://apass.be/openfield/

"It is important to remember two facts about the behavior of capitalist corporations (of their business-as-usual logics): these companies are not ethical and do not keep their promises, that is why even in this case we need to stay vigilant. But also, as seen in other cases known as ‘Disaster Capitalism’, Big Tech will jump in after disasters and war. It is likely that the very same corporations that enable genocide, will also offer the solutions for humanitarian rescue. We can imagine Big Tech will offer their services for building health, "greener" digital infrastructure and education. Now that the so-called peace agreement has been announced, we need to stay vigilant to how humanitarian operations might be loaded with rampant extraction under the guise of sneaky benevolence. The question is which corporations are going to jump into grab the loot of war and pillage the rebuilding of public services."
A TITiPI bulletin on Microsoft and Israel:
https://titipi.org/pub/A_TITiPI_bulletin_on_Microsoft_and_Israel.html

Hello Lisbon! :unwanted_love:

On May 20th, our member Femke Snelting will contribute to the Culture Converge 2026 by sharing on TITiPI's methods, political positionality and open-ended questions in the opening panel.

In words of the organisers, "an opportunity to explore ways to navigate the digital disruption critically and together; an invitation to conceive the possibility of digital practices and platforms that truly connect us, and, in some instances, of opting out altogether."

+ info and full programme: https://encc.eu/articles/culture-converge-2026-lisbon

Next Friday, Nov 28th at our shared studio in Brussels:

Talk+opening by Romi Morrison, who will speak about their current practice, unfolded from the question "What are the repertoires for holding ourselves through a constantly disruptive present?" as well as the future conditional tense: That which Will Have Had to Happen.

Join us✨

+ info: https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Talk_by_Romi_Morrison

📢 _Public Event_
*The US-Israeli War on Iran, Lebanon and Palestine*

🗓 Monday 20 April
🕔 London 5pm | Jerusalem 7pm | New York 12pm

Join an international public meeting with Rima Majed (sociologist, AUB) and Peyman Jafari (historian of Iran and labour movements) for a live Q&A on the ongoing US-Israeli wars, the continuing genocide in Gaza, and how we build an internationalist anti-war movement that integrates with our local struggles.
Hosted by rs21 Oxford on Zoom.

*Register here:* https://www.outsavvy.com/event/35376/the-us-israeli-war-on-iran-lebanon-and-palestine

1st Conferência de Tecnologias Sociais da Memória, São Paulo

Virtual conference: 31 October – 1 November 2025
On-site conference: 6–8 November 2025
https://dst2025.org

Panel «Practices towards interoperable imaginaries»
With Roberta Burchardt, Jara Rocha, Cristina Cochior, Helen V. Pritchard, Guillemette Legrand

Converging in the question of a polycrisis, and the possibility of operating other imaginaries, this panel exchanges on methods situated in different practices and that, channelled through storytelling, manifest as listening, sharing, and re-telling. We come together to understand how methods of decolonial listening, drop-in rehearsals, and cosmogram-making, can uphold, expand, and interweave with other practices beyond our individual inquiries. How do different ways of knowing and documenting come into contact, and how can surprising coalitions, remembered networks, and reimagined infrastructures be formed without collapsing into everflattening sameness?

+ info: https://criticalmedialab.ch/practices-towards-interoperable-imaginaries/