Berliner Gazette

In the first half of the 20th century, a remarkable network of women existed in Sweden. Their activists bridged the intersection of feminism and the ecological commons, linking these issues to peace struggles in the face of war. First, they mobilized against World War I; later, they did the same against World War II. They firmly believed that there could be no peace for the people of the Earth unless they made peace with the Earth. In their 1940 manifesto, “Peace with the Earth”, they wrote, “This involves a paradigm shift and all that it entails in terms of social change.” In other words, they were struggling for nothing less than a social revolution to help overcome patriarchy, capitalism, racism, imperialism, and colonialism. And thus abolish the foundations and drivers of war. As Magdalena Taube explains in her introduction to the BG conference “Pluriverse of Peace,” the term “Pluriverse” evokes such processes and struggles. Magdalena Taube’s introductory lecture to the “Pluriverse of Peace” conference was held on October 16, 2025 at the ICI Berlin. More information: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/pluriverse-of-peace/

The resurgence of militarism through ReArmEurope and Readiness 2030 promotes a war against the people, against the working class, which includes all individuals, whether employed, informal, domestic, paid or unpaid, involved in economic production or social reproduction. Ultimately, this means a war against humanity and the planet – a War on Earth. In her talk at the “Pluriverse of Peace” conference, Enikő Vincze articulated a critique and put alternatives up for discussion. The talk was created for and presented at the “Pluriverse of Peace” conference on Thursday, October 16 at the ICI Berlin. It is based on Enikő Vincze’s contribution to the “Pluriverse of Peace” text series. More info: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/pluriverse-of-peace

We are living in a world that is sliding into ‘ecosystem chaos,’ where capitalism can no longer calculate its own future and war has become the only governing algorithm. War regimes seep into every aspect of society, from Ukraine to Palestine and from Silicon Valley platforms to the people they exploit. In his talk at the “Pluriverse of Peace” conference, the writer and philosopher Raúl Sánchez Cedillo calls for a different horizon: a constituent peace, an insurrection of those very bodies, and the reconstruction of networks outside the ‘surveillance grid.’ It is a wager that emancipation could still erupt from chaos. But only if we learn to inhabit it differently. The talk was created for and presented at the “Pluriverse of Peace” conference on Thursday, October 16 at the ICI Berlin. More info: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/pluriverse-of-peace

Political theorist Sandro Mezzadra examines the shifting landscapes of contemporary social movements in Europe. In his talk at the “Pluriverse of Peace” conference, Mezzadra reflects on recent mobilizations in Italy, ranging from political general strikes to student occupations, and traces how feminist, environmental, and anti-war struggles generate new forms of collective action and political subjectivity. Drawing on debates about emerging war regimes today, Mezzadra argues for reclaiming the concept of transition. Rather than viewing it as a technocratic roadmap, he suggests considering it as an open horizon that offers an alternative to the apocalyptic tone that shapes much of today’s activism. In his talk, Mezzadra explores this idea and revisits the question of transitioning to communism as a strategic approach to current struggles. The talk was created for and presented at the “Pluriverse of Peace” conference on Thursday, October 16 at the ICI Berlin. It is loosely based on Sandro Mezzadra’s contribution to the “Pluriverse of Peace” text series. More info: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/pluriverse-of-peace

In the war that Russia is waging in Ukraine with the aim of wearing down its opponent, the destruction of the infrastructure of human and more-than-human life – in short, the environment– plays an important role. As Svitlana Matviyenko argued in her talk at the “Pluriverse of Peace” conference, it is not only destruction but also reconstruction in occupied territories that is an expression of the aggressor’s necropolitics. The talk was created for and presented at the “Pluriverse of Peace” conference on Thursday, October 16 at the ICI Berlin. It is based on Svitlana Matviyenko’s contribution to the “Pluriverse of Peace” text series. More info: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/pluriverse-of-peace

In her talk at the “Pluriverse of Peace” conference, Debora Darabi argued that war and climate crisis are not independent but are expressions of a single total social relation: capitalism as the self-movement of value. Drawing on Karl Marx’s analysis of alienation and subject formation, Darabi demonstrated how individuals are compelled to participate in capitalist dynamics that transcend conscious intention and influence every aspect of life, from basic needs to global crises and war. Her talk challenged common assumptions about agency, responsibility, and social causation. She explored what the climate crisis and contemporary wars reveal about the imperatives of capitalist society and the possibilities for collective, conscious transformation that emerge when we rethink the foundations of our social world. The talk was created for and presented at the “Pluriverse of Peace” conference on Thursday, October 16 at the ICI Berlin. The talk expanded on her argument at the “Kin City” conference, where Debora Darabi examined how environmental stressors, including air and noise pollution, lack of green space, and elevated heat levels, interact with mental health issues and shorter life expectancies in marginalized communities. More info: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/pluriverse-of-peace/

Step into inner space, where people can explore and reflect on their feelings. The wars and environmental crises happening outside our walls also take place inside, manifesting as grief, anguish, and fear – emotions that often engender isolation and a sense of disconnection. Pepe Dayaw performed an original ambient ‘live set,’ inviting participants to rest and ponder their connection to human and other-than-human life on this planet. Dayaw blended musical styles, spoken words, and live and recorded sounds, including local colors, exotic motors, and nomadic journeys. Here, for a brief moment, we can listen and move within the spaces between us.

Mongolia’s often unhoused underclass – nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples – are affected by the violence of colonial-capitalist development in multiple ways: robbed of their land, resources, etc. (and thus deprived of self-sufficiency) in the name of exploiting ‘mineral wealth’ and exposed to the resulting ecological damage including pollution. The latter is weaponized as sedentary lifestyles are propagated both as a retreat from pollution and as a means of overcoming it, for example by privatizing the care of one’s personal environment. In her talk at the “Pluriverse of Peace” conference, Shuree Sarantuya traced the different trajectories of environmental warfare against nomads and highlights their struggles. More information: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/pluriverse-of-peace/

This audio documents a multimedia intervention by the artist collective eeefff that explores how war, ecological collapse, and colonial infrastructures infiltrate daily life through invisibilized systems. Cyberwarfare, digital mapping, algorithmic assistants, and coded instructions quietly reshape reality, embedding militarization into homes, bodies, and imaginations. Extractivist fairytales, productivity regimes, and even hidden comments in code reveal how organized violence becomes normalized and stabilized at the infrastructural level. Moving images based on recently leaked Yandex code – a window into the extractivist machinery of geographies and intimacies – trace how Russia’s imperialism is extending through algorithmic systems and technological platforms. Sound, projection, and embodied action reveal how digital architectures reproduce the logic of control, territorial domination, and resource extraction, creating digital fascism, which fuses imperial violence with technological standardization. The multimedia intervention was first staged as part of the “Pluriverse of Peace” conference on Friday, October 17 at the ZK/U in Berlin. More info: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/pluriverse-of-peace

Urban Planning and ‘Making Kin’: Reflections on Multispecies Environmental Justice in Spatial Planning Cities did not come from nowhere like spaceships on an alien planet, but grew historically and relationally. This is often forgotten, precisely because they were often conceived and planned in isolation from the environment – an environment, on which they in fact depend in often exploitative and destructive ways. Not least, the climate crisis reminds us of this interdependence and forces us to ask the question of multispecies environmental justice in urban planning. As Sandra Huning argues in her “Kin City” talk, a multiple paradigm shift is needed to address this issue in a meaningful way. The opening panel of the conference at the “Kin City” festival, moderated by Manuela Zechner, took place on October 17, 2024 at the ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics. You can listen to the recording by clicking on the play button above. Sandra Huning talk is based on the following article: https://berlinergazette.de/multispecies-environmental-justice-in-spatial-planning/ More information about the “Kin City” festival: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/kin-city

The City of Milk, Honey, and Other Leftovers Sari-Sari night: Pepe Dayaw A short walk in the streets and around every corner you can find old clothes waiting to find their new emperors. There are renegades of the hunter- gatherer, scavenging food from various surplus coffers. There are recycled ghosts that come alive at night, armed with leftover hunger. The nextdoor neighbor harvests honey from her backyard. Milk is cheap and so is the chance for a new tomorrow. And then there is high-quality coconut oil. The city is a lush forest, all you need is love, determination, and a proper visa. In an auto-ethnographic pseudo-report cum variety show of sorts, Pepe Dayaw pays tribute to Berlin – the city that has become their home base for the past eleven years. Pepe Dayaw’s Sari-Sari night at the “Kin City” festival took place on October 19, 2024 at the ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics. You can listen to the recording by clicking on the play button above. More information about the “Kin City” festival: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/kin-city

VWagner City-Edda Oral storytelling: Cata von Noxen, Sara Petrolova, and Model Y. Schrottkiste A look from the future to the present. Cata von Noxen, Sara Petrolova and Model Y. Schrottkiste tell and decipher the forgotten “VWagner City-Edda.” How will future generations view all the hesitation and procrastination in the face of today’s climate change? How hopeless will the current situation appear from the perspective of the future? Is the city alive, dead, or even undead? Do we really want to know what the smart city thinks about us? Has everything been gambled away? What happened to the belief in the omnipotence of our own actions? Cata von Noxen’s, Sara Petrolova’s, and Model Y. Schrottkiste’s oral storytelling at the “Kin City” festival took place on October 18, 2024 at the ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics. You can listen to the recording by clicking on the play button above. More information about the “Kin City” festival: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/kin-city

Chuquicamata: Necropolitics and Autopoiesis of a Mining City Performance lecture and installation: Constanza Mendoza The Atacama Desert in Chile is marked as a colonial and imperial ‘empty’ space, conquered, occupied, plundered, and polluted for centuries. The first mineral extracted was silver, mined by the Spanish Empire in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. In the 19th century, sodium nitrate was ‘discovered,’ which led to the Pacific War with Bolivia and Peru. Atacama and the nitrate industry ended up under the Chilean flag, but in British hands until the late 1940s, when Germany invented synthetic nitrate. The Great Copper Mine emerged in the late 1940s as an alternative to the crisis in the nitrate industry. US private investment developed the Great Copper Mine in Atacama and the creation of the mining town of Chuquicamata. Constanza Mendoza was born in Chuquicamata in the year that President Salvador Allende nationalized copper mining. Using a multi-scalar approach, the artist relates the history and politics of Chuquicamata to her own family, linking times, spaces, and urban ecologies that have been separated for too long. Constanza Mendoza’s performance lecture at the “Kin City” festival took place on October 17, 2024 at the ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics. You can listen to the recording by clicking on the play button above. More information about the “Kin City” festival: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/kin-city

Climate (In)Justice in the Megacities of the Global South In the megacities of the Global South, urban inequalities collide with erratic climatic conditions, creating new crises and exacerbating old ones. Megacities in monsoon deltas face climate-related water crises in a variety of ways. This is exacerbated in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, where development policies, haphazard urban planning, rapid urban population growth, and social inequalities reproduce multiple injustices and vulnerabilities at multiple levels and locations. Flooding, waterlogging and water scarcity coexist and pose a serious problem, albeit in a fragmented and unequal manner. As climate change alters hydro-social cycles, a kind of ‘climate class society’ is emerging, as Farhana Sultana shows in her “Kin City” talk. Here, the elite appropriate the city for their own interests, alienating, marginalizing, and essentially displacing up to a third of the urban population. The eighth panel of the conference, part of the “Kin City” festival, took place on October 17, 2024 as a video stream at ZK/U - Center for Art and Urbanistics and was moderated by Magdalena Taube. You can listen to the recording by clicking the play button above.

Kin Cities in a Settler State – Whose Kin? When the English settlers began to conquer and colonize Aotearoa to make it New Zealand, they began a process of erasure. They wanted a blank page on which to write their history: the story of thriving cities and tamed nature, populated by creatures that had been imported from their homeland, as had everything else. In her “Kin City” talk, Christine Winter rethinks decolonial urban ecologies from within and against these relations of violence. The seventh panel of the conference at the “Kin City” festival took place on October 17, 2024 at the ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics and was moderated by Rose Wanjiku. You can listen to the recording by clicking on the play button above. Christine Winter’s talk is based on the following article: https://berlinergazette.de/kin-cities-in-a-settler-state-whose-kin More information about the “Kin City” festival: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/kin-city

Balkans as Mining Colony? Rebooting Urban Eco-Struggles ZBOR (Združeni Balkanski Otpor i Rad) is a word with many layers of meaning for the people of the former Yugoslav countries. Most simply, it means gathering or assembly, and as such it is known in villages throughout the region. However, the Climate Justice and Just Transition Initiative ZBOR specifically evokes the meaning(s) from the days of Yugoslavia’s anti-fascist revolutionary liberation movement and socialist years, when ZBOR was the fundamental institution of direct democracy and self-management. ZBOR was a vital everyday democratic practice in every factory, organization, apartment block, school, workplace. ZBOR is a place and time where anything can happen. Today, the word is often reduced to the meaning of chorus, but the ZBOR initiative embraces this contemporary usage as well – as one of its main goals is to gather the voices of the many for our common world and time. In their “Kin City” talk, the participants of the ZBOR initiative spoke about the founding of their initiative at the BG conference “Allied Grounds” (2023) and the first larger gathering they organized in the summer of 2024, bringing together many urban folks in a designated mining area in rural Bosnia and Herzegovina, and finally discussed their concerns, demands, and ideas for future action. The sixth panel of the conference at the “Kin City” festival took place on October 17, 2024 at the ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics. You can listen to the recording by clicking on the play button above. More information about the “Kin City” festival: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/kin-city

Urban Environmentalism in Sarajevo: Limits and Possibilities Subjecting all livelihoods to capitalist appropriation does not simply mean robbing ‘us’ of what belongs to ‘us.’ It means depriving ‘the people’ of common resources, that is, ‘our’ infrastructure of life (air, climate, health care, education, public space, etc.) and thus preventing ‘us’ from organizing human and other-than-human life in a democratic and sustainable way, Svjetlana Nedimović argues in her “Kin City” talk, zooming in on struggles in Sarajevo for social, spatial, and environmental justice. The fifth panel of the conference at the “Kin City” festival, moderated by Iskra Krstić, took place on October 17, 2024 at the ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics. You can listen to the recording by clicking on the play button above. Svjetlana Nedimović’s talk is based on the following article: https://berlinergazette.de/urban-ecologies-in-sarajevo More information about the “Kin City” festival: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/kin-city

Towards an Eco-Feminist Urban Metabolism: Turning Shopping Malls into Care Centers Today, we are challenged to combine anti-capitalist approaches with eco-feminist approaches to enable the development of the caring city we so desperately need on this deeply troubled planet. A collective political consciousness (and thus a unifying class politics) could emerge if those of us in struggle (1) reclaimed the infrastructure of human life, including collective public systems such as mass transit, along with food and healthcare and affordable housing; (2) appropriated the ruins left by capital for post-capitalist and eco-feminist purposes (e.g., by converting shopping malls into care centers); and (3) understood this process as the basis and expression of new forms of social coexistence and politics, indeed an urban politics from below that can simultaneously develop a sense of kinship with other-than-human life and thus drive a truly sustainable urban metabolism. In their “Kin City” talk, Paula Mikat and Cléo Mieulet zoom in on a specific case in Berlin: the Sorge ins ParkCenter initiative, which is working on the socialization of a shopping mall and its transformation into a care center. The third panel of the conference at the “Kin City” festival took place on October 17, 2024 at the ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics. You can listen to the recording by clicking on the play button above.

“Capitalism, Marginalized Communities, and Environmental (In)Justice in Berlin” Environmental stressors, such as air and noise pollution or lack of green space, disproportionately affect marginalized communities and worsen mental and physical health outcomes. These stressors do not exist in isolation. They are products of systemic inequalities embedded in capitalist social relations. Drawing on research in Berlin’s inner-city neighborhoods, Debora Darabi’s “Kin City” talk discusses how poverty, environmental injustice, and public health crises intersect, challenging us to rethink the social structures that shape these phenomena. Ellen Gomes responds by drawing attention to racialization as a key principle in organizing social relations under capitalism and producing environmental injustice in Berlin. The third panel of the conference at the “Kin City” festival, moderated by Ela Kagel, took place on October 17, 2024 at the ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics. You can listen to the recording by clicking on the play button above. Debora Darabi’s talk is based on the following article: https://berlinergazette.de/capitalism-climate-and-class-understanding-the-social-roots-of-urban-environmental-injustice/ More information about the “Kin City” festival: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/kin-city

Contested Urban Ecologies in Athens: Caring Communities, Environmental Racism, and Green Policing Athens is a city where air pollution from vehicles is widespread, while the intensification of construction activity, often in the name of green development, has made green spaces scarce. Athens is also a city with a growing waste problem, including unresolved contradictions in waste recycling, which is mainly carried out by racialized communities in ‘Athens backyard.’ In their “Kin City” talks, Nelli Kambouri and Dafni Karavola discuss how the capitalist metabolism could be disrupted and how an eco-politics from below could be formed by the dispossessed. The second panel of the conference at the “Kin City” festival, moderated by Sotiris Sideris, took place on October 17, 2024 at the ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics. You can listen to the recording by clicking on the play button above. Nelli Kambouri’s talk is based on the following article: https://berlinergazette.de/requiem-for-trees-rhizomatic-ecologies-insurgent-communities-and-green-policing/ Dafni Karavola’s talk is based on the following article: https://berlinergazette.de/the-urban-decomposers-of-athens-backyard/ More information about the “Kin City” festival: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/kin-city

Kin City: Sandra Huning by Berliner Gazette

Dopamin-Detox: Hype oder Hoffnung? by Berliner Gazette

Für Projekt Protest

Job Vs Nature Podcast by Berliner Gazette

Labor movements have been continually absorbed by market forces and thus repeatedly declared dead. In recent years, however, they have re-emerged as a potentially anti-capitalist force. At the same time, the environmental and climate movements in the Global North, long motivated by moral concerns, are gradually discovering their anti-capitalist interest. In a number of recent struggles, the labor and environmental movements are coming together, building alliances, and expanding their capacities to shape eco-socialist futures. The second panel of the “Allied Grounds” conference, “Resisting Green Jobs,” explored cases in the Balkans and Italy. Moderated by Rositsa Kratunkova, Svjetlana Nedimović, Paola Imperatore, and Francesca Gabbriellini gave talks at the House of Democracy and Human Rights, which can be listened to by clicking on the play button above. More information about the “Allied Grounds” project can be found here: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/allied-grounds/

In contemporary capitalism, workers are increasingly fragmented and divided, along the lines, for example, of productive and reproductive labor, wage and unpaid labor. Yet they could realize their common interests not least by confronting the capitalist threat to their social and ecological environment and to their collective capacity to create a life worth living. This requires translation not only between different languages, but also between different cultural, social, economic, political and, not least, class contexts. The final panel of the “Allied Grounds” conference, “Politics of Translation,” addressed these issues. Moderated by Anna Saave, Dario Azzellini, Lorenzo Feltrin, and Brett Neilson gave talks at the House of Democracy and Human Rights, which can be listened to by clicking on the play button below. More information about the “Allied Grounds” project can be found here: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/allied-grounds/

Humming Exercise by Berliner Gazette

What does sustainable work look like for you? by Berliner Gazette

(Neo)colonial capitalism is bringing about the end of the world. Environmentalists in the Global North urge us to recognize that this dystopian scenario is looming in the near future. For the oppressed peoples of the Global South, however, the apocalypse has been a reality for more than five hundred years. And it is from these regions that the growing mass of migrant and refugee labor continues to emerge, not least as a reserve army of labor to support the centers of capital. This challenges us all to imagine and facilitate multiracial workers’ struggles against (neo)colonialism and capitalism. The opening panel of the “Allied Grounds” conference, “Agents of System Change,” addressed these issues. Moderated by Claudia Núñez, Florin Poenaru and Jennifer Kamau gave talks at the House of Democracy and Human Rights on October 5, which can be listened to by clicking on the play button above. More information about the “Allied Grounds” project can be found here: https://berlinergazette.de/projects/allied-grounds/

The final day of the “Ambient Revolts” conference sought to explore the politics of artificial intelligence (AAI) in mobility regimes in general and logistics in particular. Two speakers offered ways to address this issue: Evelina Gambino (Italy), who undertakes grassroots inquiries into logistics – today the largest playing field of AI-supported circulation –, focused on the movement of laboring bodies and objects as well as the spaces they create. The architect and researcher Sandi Hilal (Palestine), who works on education in refugee camps, empowering the invisibilized actor of the circulation management regime as a political subject in his or her own right, focused on embodied resistance. This meant making visible labor that is otherwise invisibilized: 1. labor that is supposed to render logistical infrastructure frictionless, enabling seamless circulation of not only goods but also of laboring bodies; and 2. labor as a commodity that is channelled through logistical infrastructure and supposed to arrive just-in-time, and also, profiled via algorithms, to fit in seamlessly in the workplace. Reading Evelina Gambino’s work as an intervention into the former and Sandi Hilal’s into the latter, both gesture towards a politics of AAI that is about the hidden labor of workers becoming ever more invisibilized by AI-driven governmentality. Their research intervenes in logistical AI because it opens up space to think about how to struggle within and against this form of power over laboring bodies – from the point of view of these very laboring bodies. How to organize and struggle within and against logistical power is a question that implicates the most precarious actors in the AI-driven circulation regime: refugees, migrant workers, day laborers, etc. How are they not just instrumentalized by but actually subverting this rising form of infrastructural power? The politics of AAI is then brought to the fore: human labor that is invisibilized within increasingly AI-driven logistics. The recording of the talks was made on November 10, 2018 at the ZK/U and can be listened to by pressing the play button above.

EN / The final day of the “Ambient Revolts” conference sought to explore the politics of artificial intelligence (AAI) in mobility regimes in general and logistics in particular. Two speakers offered ways to address this issue: Evelina Gambino (Italy), who undertakes grassroots inquiries into logistics – today the largest playing field of AI-supported circulation –, focused on the movement of laboring bodies and objects as well as the spaces they create. The architect and researcher Sandi Hilal (Palestine), who works on education in refugee camps, empowering the invisibilized actor of the circulation management regime as a political subject in his or her own right, focused on embodied resistance. This meant making visible labor that is otherwise invisibilized: 1. labor that is supposed to render logistical infrastructure frictionless, enabling seamless circulation of not only goods but also of laboring bodies; and 2. labor as a commodity that is channelled through logistical infrastructure and supposed to arrive just-in-time, and also, profiled via algorithms, to fit in seamlessly in the workplace. Reading Evelina Gambino’s work as an intervention into the former and Sandi Hilal’s into the latter, both gesture towards a politics of AAI that is about the hidden labor of workers becoming ever more invisibilized by AI-driven governmentality. Their research intervenes in logistical AI because it opens up space to think about how to struggle within and against this form of power over laboring bodies – from the point of view of these very laboring bodies. How to organize and struggle within and against logistical power is a question that implicates the most precarious actors in the AI-driven circulation regime: refugees, migrant workers, day laborers, etc. How are they not just instrumentalized by but actually subverting this rising form of infrastructural power? The politics of AAI is then brought to the fore: human labor that is invisibilized within increasingly AI-driven logistics. The recording of the talks was made on November 10, 2018 at the ZK/U and can be listened to by pressing the play button above.

EN / The final day of the “Ambient Revolts” conference sought to explore the politics of artificial intelligence (AAI) in mobility regimes in general and logistics in particular. Two speakers offered ways to address this issue: Evelina Gambino (Italy), who undertakes grassroots inquiries into logistics – today the largest playing field of AI-supported circulation –, focused on the movement of laboring bodies and objects as well as the spaces they create. The architect and researcher Sandi Hilal (Palestine), who works on education in refugee camps, empowering the invisibilized actor of the circulation management regime as a political subject in his or her own right, focused on embodied resistance. This meant making visible labor that is otherwise invisibilized: 1. labor that is supposed to render logistical infrastructure frictionless, enabling seamless circulation of not only goods but also of laboring bodies; and 2. labor as a commodity that is channelled through logistical infrastructure and supposed to arrive just-in-time, and also, profiled via algorithms, to fit in seamlessly in the workplace. Reading Evelina Gambino’s work as an intervention into the former and Sandi Hilal’s into the latter, both gesture towards a politics of AAI that is about the hidden labor of workers becoming ever more invisibilized by AI-driven governmentality. Their research intervenes in logistical AI because it opens up space to think about how to struggle within and against this form of power over laboring bodies – from the point of view of these very laboring bodies. How to organize and struggle within and against logistical power is a question that implicates the most precarious actors in the AI-driven circulation regime: refugees, migrant workers, day laborers, etc. How are they not just instrumentalized by but actually subverting this rising form of infrastructural power? The politics of AAI is then brought to the fore: human labor that is invisibilized within increasingly AI-driven logistics. The recording of the talks was made on November 10, 2018 at the ZK/U and can be listened to by pressing the play button above.

EN / The project “Liquid Writing – Schreiben im Fluss” was conceived, organized and carried out by the Berliner Gazette. In addition to a website, it consisted of two further components: a seminar (July 28 to August 1, 2010) and a radio broadcast, which was recorded and produced on the last day of the seminar. The project was conceived as a practical workshop for authors, activists, artists and scientists who want to deal with the political issue of water in a creative way. Guest lecturer was Holger Schulze. Pit Schultz accompanied the production of the radio program. The radio play was recorded at the House of World Cultures on August 1, 2010 and can be listened to by pressing the play button above. DE / Das Projekt „Liquid Writing – Schreiben im Fluss“ wurde von der Berliner Gazette konzipiert, organisiert und durchgeführt. Neben einer Webseite bestand es aus zwei weiteren Bausteinen: Seminar (28.7. bis 1.8.2010) und Radio-Sendung, die am letzten Tag des Seminars aufgezeichnet und produziert wurde. Das Projekt verstand sich als Praxis-Werkstatt für Autor*innen, Aktivist*innen, Künstler*innen und Wissenschaftler*innen, die sich mit dem Politikum Wasser auf kreative Weise beschäftigen wollen. Gast-Dozent war Holger Schulze. Die Produktion der Radio-Sendung hat Pit Schultz begleitet. Das Hörstück wurde am Haus der Kulturen der Welt am 1.8.2010 aufgezeichnet und kann durch Drücken des obigen Play-Buttons angehört werden.

The essayistic experimental documentary “Stone of Hell” (dir.: Tekla Aslanishvili, Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze) follows the extraction, processing, and distribution of manganese. Considering this raw material the foundation for different modes of production (binding cultural, extractive, and arms industries together and powering technological advancements), the film exposes how the post-Soviet mining town of Chiatura, in west Georgia, is globally interconnected and how these entanglements are feeding into current conflicts – political, economic, and social ones. The artist talk – hosted by Magdalena Taube – took place on the closing night of the “After Extractivism” conference. Recorded at Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte, you can listen to the proceedings by pressing the play-button above. More info: https://after-extractivism.berlinergazette.de

Efforts to label some forms of imperialism ‘good’ or ‘evil’ (or even the ‘lesser evil’) all too often miss the larger point: they share their origins in capitalist drives towards growth and domination, destroying the environment we all must share. If we trace the entanglement of empire and ecology back through its earlier moments of industrialization and colonialism, how can today’s conflicts come into view as opportunities to reimagine political and economic relations towards a horizon of peace, accountability, and responsibility? Searching for answers, Max Haiven, Julio Linares, and Aleksandar Matković gave talks at the opening panel of the “After Extractivism” conference hosted by Claudia Núñez. Recorded at the Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte, you can listen to them by pressing the play-button above. More info: https://after-extractivism.berlinergazette.de

The space of political imagination and action that has emerged in this era of multiple crises needs to be harnessed towards a better and just world. Indeed, a radical transition is needed: If the common denominator of the multiple crises is extractive capitalism, then the question is how ‘we,’ whoever we are, could reclaim the economy and rebuild everything from within networks of solidarity, cooperation, and, ultimately, care. Mobilizing lessons from past and present, the challenge is to forge truly planetary caring economies. Responding to this challenge, Katarina Kušić, Andrea Vetter, and Manuela Zechner gave talks on the second evening of the “After Extractivism” conference hosted by Stoyo Tetevenski. Recorded at Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte, you can listen to them by pressing the play-button above. More info: https://after-extractivism.berlinergazette.de

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5. Antifascism by Berliner Gazette

6. Non - Aligned Movement by Berliner Gazette

EN / Who are the Eastern workers shouldering the profits of the West? What are current struggles inside and outside the labor union context? What are the differences and commonalities between labor struggles in East Germany and Eastern Europe at large? What role does the rise of platform labor play here? And, last but not least, since “Eastern” workers are in demand at home and abroad (hence doubly needed and doubly exploited), what does it mean for mobile workers to struggle at home and abroad? At the “Black Box East” conference Sana Ahmad, Rutvica Andrijasevic, Miglè Bareikytè, Anna Calori, Stefan Candea, Slobodan Golušin, Adela Hincu, Holger Kral, Dunja Kučinac, and Rena Raedle looked for answers to these questions. The centerpiece of their resulting workshop project is a radio play set on a bus that transports workers (and agents) between East and West. All the characters are fictional but are informed by the workshop participants’ collective histories and knowledge of labor migrations: personal, family, collective as well as by their respective field works. The setting of the bus, various characters and the approaching border, is a vignette from Rutvica Andrijasevic’s fieldwork experience that the workshop group adopted and re-imagined for the radio play. It can be listened to by pressing the play button above. DE / Wer sind die Arbeiter*innen im Osten, die die Gewinne des Westens schultern? Was sind die aktuellen Kämpfe innerhalb und außerhalb des gewerkschaftlichen Kontextes? Was sind die Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen den Arbeitskämpfen in Ostdeutschland und Osteuropa insgesamt? Welche Rolle spielt dabei der Aufstieg der Plattformarbeit? Und, last but not least, da "Ost"-Arbeiter*innen im In- und Ausland gefragt sind (also doppelt gebraucht und doppelt ausgebeutet werden), was bedeutet es für mobile Arbeiter*innen, im In- und Ausland zu kämpfen? Auf der Konferenz "Black Box East" suchten Sana Ahmad, Rutvica Andrijasevic, Miglè Bareikytè, Anna Calori, Stefan Candea, Slobodan Golušin, Adela Hincu, Holger Kral, Dunja Kučinac und Rena Raedle nach Antworten auf diese Fragen. Das Kernstück ihres daraus resultierenden Workshop-Projekts ist ein Hörspiel, das in einem Bus spielt, der Arbeiter*innen (und Vermittler*innen) zwischen Ost und West transportiert. Alle Figuren sind fiktiv, aber sie sind durch die kollektive Geschichte und das Wissen der Workshop-Teilnehmer*innen über Arbeitsmigration geprägt: persönlich, familiär, kollektiv sowie durch ihre jeweilige Arbeit vor Ort. Der Schauplatz des Busses, die verschiedenen Charaktere und die sich nähernde Grenze sind eine Vignette aus Rutvica Andrijasevics Feldforschungserfahrung, die die Workshop-Gruppe für das Hörspiel übernommen und umgestaltet hat. Das Hörspiel kann durch Drücken des obigen Play-Buttons angehört werden.

The Eastbloc Antifascist Sound Alliance (@eastblocsound) is a community initiative created around the desire to connect an eclectic group of people working with sound in Eastern Europe, post-Soviet space, and Eastern European diaspora. In this geo-cultural context resistance against the rise of right-wing populism and the resurgence of fascism at large is very important. “Building an antifascist alliance around listening, based around sound and music, does not erase our specific experiences, shaped through pacts and ideologies and geopolitical conditions, or even ‘how we survived communism and even laughed,’ (Slavenka Draculic) it does not stand for nations or even forming a power alliance, it stands for this specific diaspora standing up.” The Eastbloc Antifascist Sound Alliance’s first cooperative product is the mixtape “Diasporian Dissonances.” It features more than 30 artists from from the former Eastbloc and the Eastern European diaspora and has been mixed by AGF @poemproducer. “Diasporian Dissonances” is a contribution to BLACK BOX EAST: https://blackboxeast.berlinergazette.de ........................................................... eastbloc antifascist sound alliance presents: DIASPORIAN DISSONANCES mixtape by AGF feat: artist - title Anamaria Pravicencu - Drawing fragment 1 amber amber - intro (@amberamberdj) - Andrea Beton - Suché Lúky (@maryc) sonicwilderness BRNO 2021 - ambient screams AGF - what is an “eastbloc” Robertina Šebjanič, Ida Hiršenfelder, Manja Ristić (@manja-ristic) - Sounds of the EarthSea Timur Dzhafarov [@johnobject] - 500mg [Standard Deviation] - If-Only Trinh & Linh Ha - jam (Blindsignal Hanoi) Dengue Drums (FOOZOOL Remix)@larasarkissian amber amber - Beeing from the East [poem] In My Talons - Thunder (@clgolem "Future in Old Hungarian" Version) Avtomat - 01. Gusła (Human Rites) @avtomatmusic manja ristić - kairos & the dwellers - 03 dwellers.aiff AGF - building an anti-fascist alliance Jonas Gruska - spomaleny protest (@jonas-gruska) ANTI - VERIGI 2021 (ASIAN DOLL REMIX) - Ant! (@jonny-neiik) Amek Drone Ensemble - Op. 1 - 01 Op. 1 Political Soundwalks - 2020-10-25~15 10 @ гатэль Планета _ Стэла Мінск - Горад-Герой Simina Oprescu - NIMBOSTRATUS (Quoting Beethoven) @siminaoprescu Marija Balubdžić - Umbra Posle (@umbra-balubdzic) klarawodehn - klimarap acapella (@klarawodehn) ZLE OkO - A kto nie ma pokus (…And who hasn't been tempted) @hellgi666 Nandele - Failed Experiment (@nndle) OR poiesis - kamnolom kisetsu (@user-880349987-124851397) Natela Svanidze - Epitaphium (1974 Original Recording on Synthi - 100) Lara Sarkissian - OBSIDIAN Marija Šumarac - Walking (@marija-sumarac) Diana Romanova - Hurlement (@diaromma) Anna Politovskaya - excerpt from movie ‘Анна Политковская: семь лет на линии фронта’ Yoana Robova - it is a bit crowded Private Mountain - Baroque in the Age of Neoliberalism (@dimitardodovski) Svetlana Maraš - Soudscape Cabinet (@svetlanamaras) Krista Dintere - Biosignals Purva Radio MpLab (@dintere) "Fascia  181006190131" Marija Bozinovska Jones with J.G. Biberkopf featuring MBJ Wetware Belarus 2020 to serve and protect leah & Natalie Beridze - gal (@natalie-tba-beridze) Audrius Simkujas - conditioner sound ambeo the2vvo - Felt Curtain (@the2vvo) Danay Suarez - El corazón (cut)(@danaysuarez) Roman Radkovic Collective - Kde domov můj Discombobulatrix - ciocarlie cu reverb (@discombobulatrix) GORO TARIKATA - Conclusion (@mojogoro) Yaera - Elavoko

This sound piece is based on a rereading of classics of anarchist and ecological literature, by authors such as Thoreau, Goldman, and others. Many of the lyrics, though they are over 100 years old, take listeners to still emerging grey undercurrents in the BLACK BOX EAST. Under the collective name Looking For, Gosia M. Jagiello, Agata Chwola, and Jarek Wasilewski, all from Poland but nowadays living abroad, meditate on the problems in their home country, since these have a huge impact on their lives. The artists state: “Creating our identities especially online gives us a false sense of control over ourselves. […] We forget to recognize the dissonance that our disconnection from the environment creates within and beyond us. The choice of music is based on a disagreement with capitalism that asks us for more and makes us want more.” “Thoreau Walking” is a contribution to BLACK BOX EAST: https://blackboxeast.berlinergazette.de Image above: Krystian Woznicki (cc by nc)

The curse woven by an uncertain number of Mechanical Turk workers to abolish Amazon was encoded by these very workers in text fragments into Amazon’s empire, sometimes appearing visibly in the user comments of Amazon’s hegemonic marketplace, at other times smuggled into code and laced throughout the vast netherworld of Amazon’s servers. When assembled in a digital form (as it is throughout Amazon’s empire), the curse is extremely powerful. Listen to a talk with the members of the art collective University of the Phoenix about their contribution to the SILENT WORKS project. Preserving the curse in analog form for purposes of research and study, University of the Phoenix produced a video teaser accompanying the actual installation at the SILENT WORKS onsite exhibition: https://vimeo.com/485838879 Look at an installation view of The University of the Phoenix’s contribution to SILENT WORKS here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/berlinergazette/50578045186/in/album-72157713432698548/ Read more about The University of the Phoenix's contribution to SILENT WORKS in this booklet (pp. 36-37): https://berlinergazette.de/wp-content/uploads/SILENT-WORKS_Reader.pdf About SILENT WORKS: https://silentworks.info

“The source for this film is the personal life of my father, Nugzari, and his right hand. His hand has been playing a crucial role in his economic and social life and has always ensured his family’s financial stability. The film traces a physical and symbolic transition of his right hand: how the transition has been affecting his socio-economic life in his journey throughout different political ideologies that are represented and governed by symbolic hands.” Combining hand-held camera, drone footage, and 3D animation, Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze’s contribution to SILENT WORKS portrays the artist’s father, a former contractor in the USSR, and a refugee after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Look at an installation view of Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze’s contribution to SILENT WORKS here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/berlinergazette/50578199422/in/album-72157713432698548/ Read more about Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze’s contribution to SILENT WORKS in this booklet (pp. 15-16): https://berlinergazette.de/wp-content/uploads/SILENT-WORKS_Reader.pdf About SILENT WORKS: https://silentworks.info

In a discursive environment, which corresponds to the imperative of economic-technological transformation, any criticism of it becomes an integral part of the resistance against the silencing of protest and labor struggles. Against this backdrop, NoCyberValley unlock the different voices of the protest against “Europe’s largest research consortium in the field of artificial intelligence.” Exhibited on-site in the visual diary “unmuted,” the (German-language) audio supplement samples everyday people arguing about the future of technology and the city. Look at installation views of NoCyberValley's contribution to SILENT WORKS here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/berlinergazette/50578196962/in/album-72157713432698548/ Watch a talk by NoCyberValley here: https://vimeo.com/477785800 Read more about NoCyberValley's contribution to SILENT WORKS in this booklet (pp. 23-25): https://berlinergazette.de/wp-content/uploads/SILENT-WORKS_Reader.pdf About SILENT WORKS: https://silentworks.info

"How do we encounter silent workers? How do we see what is meant to be hidden behind apps and interfaces? In this project we went on an unusual search: the search for our personal encounters with silent workers as researchers, academics and scholars. While some of us hired workers in order to find interview partners, others were pushed into using platform labour and tried to turn it into a research inquiry. Some were trying to relate their own isolating experiences of working from home in the pandemic with those of digital homeworkers." Read more about this and other projects here: https://silentworks.info

Interview with Mo, Lieferando rider in Berlin "If Lieferando is somewhat representative of today’s AI-capitalism, then Peng!s video prompts us to think how we can act within, against, and beyond this dehumanizing system of exploitation, extraction, and control." Watch a video of Peng!’s action here: https://vimeo.com/478833658 Watch Peng!’s statement here: https://vimeo.com/477782023 Read more about Peng!'s contribution to SILENT WORKS in this booklet (p. 28-29): berlinergazette.de/wp-content/uplo…ORKS_Reader.pdf About SILENT WORKS: silentworks.info