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Complicit Chips Reader

2024-10-21T07:48:20Z

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== Complicit Chips: A Reader in Progress for Infra-Resistance ==

[https://titipi.domainepublic.net/s/pifWxCjoiTBf5WB Download Reader full res]

[https://titipi.domainepublic.net/s/QmyDR4EDqGbMKPp Download Reader in low res]

=== Index ===

1. ''September 11 Was Good for Business [extract]'' in: The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein – 2023

2. ''Imperialism, climate crisis and Palestine liberation'' by Hamza Hamouchene – 2024

3. ''In Clover'', Laleh Khalili – 2022

4. ''The Elasticity of Logistics'' in: The Politics of Operations by Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson – 2019

5. ''Tracking and Tracing: Geographies of Logistical Governance and Labouring Bodies'' by AM Kanngieser – 2013

6. ''Colonial Authoritarian Origins and Authoritarian capitalism or the whole thing'' in: At the Razor’s Edge of Democracy Authoritarian Capitalism and Decolonial International Feminisms by Macarena Gómez-Barris – 2021

7. ''Bush I, Semi Chips, Potato Chips'' in: 1. AI and Tech Industrial Policy: From Post-Cold War Post-Industrialism to Post-Neoliberal Re-Industrialization by Susannah Glickman (in AI Nationalism(s): Global Industrial Policy Approaches to AI) – 2024

8. ''Declaration of withdrawal'' by Shinjoung Yeo – 2023

9. ''Not Without us'' by Joseph Weizenbaum – 1986

10. ''Google Employees testimonials'' from No Tech for Apartheid – 2023

11. ''Deadly algorithms: Can legal codes hold software accountable for code that kills?'' by Susan Schuppli – 2014

12. ''The algorithmically accelerated killing machine'' by Lucy Suchman – 2024

13. ''A conversation with Iván Chaar López'' by Sareeta Amrute and Iván López – 2022

14. ''Borders Are Obsolete Part II Reflections on Central American Caravans and Mediterranean Crossings'' [extract] by Jennifer Mogannam and Leslie Quintanilla – 2021

15. ''Refusing Control Abolish Frontex: a decentralised campaign fighting the EU Border Regime'' by Sanne Stevens – ?

16. ''The First Step Is Finding Each Other'' by Timmy Châu in Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence – 2024

17. ''Submitting a consultation on the White Paper'': 'On options for enhancing support for research and development involving technologies with dual use potential' by Various Irish Scholars – 2024

18. ''Voluptuous Disintegration: A Future History of Black Computational Thought'' by Romi Morrisson – 2022

19. ''There is no software [extract from introduction]'' by Irina Kaldrack and Martina Leeker – 2015

20. ''Introduction: Spoilers Ahead [extract]'' in: Spoiler Alert A Critical Guide by Aaron Jaffe – 2019

21. ''The decline of computers as general purpose technology'' by Neil C. Thompson and Svenha Spanuth – 2019

22. ''In the mouth of a polar bear: The undead feeling of the world'' in: The Anti-Menagerie by Helen V. Pritchard and Cassandra Troyan – 2021

23. ''The “Just in Time” Explosion of Pagers and the New Technologies of Death'' By Deivison Faustino and Walter Lippold – 2024

24. ''For opacity'' in: Poetics of Relation by Édouard Glissant – 1990

25. ''A Reverse-Engineered Insurrection'' by Miriyam Aouragh – 2020

'''COLOPHON'''

This (ever in progress) reader was put together at the occasion of the Nvidia Complicit Chips worksession, during which an international group of researchers, activists, and artists dived into the nebulous world of software-operated hardware. Starting from the high density chips produced by NVIDIA, we attempted to get our heads around the much needed divestment from a computer industry complicit in organized violence at borders and in occupied territories, while being so pervasive in running our most mundane daily activities.

Hosted by TITiPI (The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest) in October 2024, this worksession was part of wider series of gatherings bringing together members of the INFRA-RESISTANCE, a constellation of activists, scholars, artists and researchers formed as a response to the Big Tech industry’s central role in providing infrastructural support to, and benefiting from, genocide, ecocide and apartheid. Other gatherings have notably focused on proposals for moving networks and political engagement away from toxic cloud environments or archiving and looking back at archives while adopting methods and tools in line with the aforementioned proposals.

This collection of texts wasn’t assembled with the goal of covering all aspects surrounding the complex conflations of software, hardware, global finance, digital aesthetics, securitisation and militarisation. Rather, it was conceived with the aim of provoking thoughts, triggering conversations and supporting our collective attempt to articulate interdependencies between global financing, AI, hardware development, and computer graphics. Together, we aimed to understand better the depth of the complicity of these industries in extreme violence, inflicted on occupied territories, migrating bodies, on sites of extraction and ultimately on fellow humans.

Through our time together, we initiated a proposal for collaboration in a divestment campaign, extension of preexisting mapping of genocidal infrastructures, hands on work to understand how these chips operate and some analysis of the aesthetisation of military technology. We hope that, beyond the context of this worksession, the circulation of this reader can support fellow comrades sharing the desire to pursue divestment from an industry which provides the material means to both our most mundane activities and human rights violations all at once and fully intertwined.

This reader was put together by Femke Snelting, Helen Pritchard and Sofia Boschat Thorez and might keep evolving. If you have any remarks, suggestions, or work your would like to share, please reach out to us at : infraresistance@emailaddress.com

And if you would consider adopting software that is not complicit in supporting the genocide in Palestine, you can consult the following booklet:

<nowiki>https://titipi.org/pub/infraresistance.pdf</nowiki>

[[Category: Complicit Chips]]

Complicit Chips Reader

2024-10-21T07:45:17Z

SB: Reverted edit by FS (talk) to last revision by SB

'''NVIDIA COMPLICIT CHIPS : A READER IN PROGRESS FOR THE INFRA-RESISTANCE'''

Accompanying a deep dive into the nebulous world of software-operated hardware, starting from high density chips produced by NVIDIA, this reader compiles a number of texts aimed to be thought provoking.

[https://titipi.domainepublic.net/s/pifWxCjoiTBf5WB NvidiaComplicitChipsReader]

[https://titipi.domainepublic.net/s/QmyDR4EDqGbMKPp Reader in low res]

'''Index'''

'''1. ''September 11 Was Good for Business [extract]''''' in: The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein - 2023

'''2. ''Imperialism, climate crisis and Palestine liberation''''' by Hamza Hamouchene - 2024

'''3. ''In Clover''''', Laleh Khalili – 2022

'''4. ''The Elasticity of Logistics''''' in: The Politics of Operations by Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson - 2019

'''5. ''Tracking and Tracing: Geographies of Logistical Governance and Labouring Bodies''''' by AM Kanngieser – 2013

'''6.''' '''''Colonial Authoritarian Origins and Authoritarian capitalism or the whole thing''''' in: At the Razor’s Edge of Democracy Authoritarian Capitalism and Decolonial International Feminisms by Macarena Gómez-Barris – 2021

'''7. ''Bush I, Semi Chips, Potato Chips''''' in: 1. AI and Tech Industrial Policy: From Post-Cold War Post-Industrialism to Post-Neoliberal Re-Industrialization by Susannah Glickman (in AI Nationalism(s): Global Industrial Policy Approaches to AI) - 2024

'''8. ''Declaration of withdrawal''''' by Shinjoung Yeo – 2023

'''9. ''Not Without us''''' by Joseph Weizenbaum – 1986

'''10. ''Google Employees testimonials''''' from No Tech for Apartheid – 2023

'''11. ''Deadly algorithms: Can legal codes hold software accountable for code that kills?''''' by Susan Schuppli – 2014

'''12. ''The algorithmically accelerated killing machine''''' by Lucy Suchman – 2024

'''13.''' '''''A conversation with Iván Chaar López''''' by Sareeta Amrute and Iván López – 2022

'''14. ''Borders Are Obsolete Part II Reflections on Central American Caravans and Mediterranean Crossings''''' [extract] by Jennifer Mogannam and Leslie Quintanilla - 2021

'''15.''' '''''Refusing Control Abolish Frontex: a decentralised campaign fighting the EU Border Regime''''' by Sanne Stevens - ?

'''16. ''The First Step Is Finding Each Other''''' by Timmy Châu in Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence – 2024

'''17. S''ubmitting a consultation on the White Paper''''': 'On options for enhancing support for research and development involving technologies with dual use potential' by Various Irish Scholars – 2024

'''18 .''Voluptuous Disintegration: A Future History of Black Computational Thought''''' by Romi Morrisson – 2022

'''19. ''There is no software [extract from introduction]''''' by Irina Kaldrack and Martina Leeker – 2015

'''20. ''Introduction: Spoilers Ahead [extract]''''' in: Spoiler Alert A Critical Guide by Aaron Jaffe - 2019

'''21. ''The decline of computers as general purpose technology''''' by Neil C. Thompson and Svenha Spanuth - 2019

'''22. ''In the mouth of a polar bear: The undead feeling of the world''''' in: The Anti-Menagerie by Helen V. Pritchard and Cassandra Troyan - 2021

'''23. ''The “Just in Time” Explosion of Pagers and the New Technologies of Death''''' By Deivison Faustino and Walter Lippold - 2024

'''24. ''For opacity''''' in: Poetics of Relation by Édouard Glissant - 1990

'''25. ''A Reverse-Engineered Insurrection''''' by Miriyam Aouragh - 2020

'''COLOPHON'''

This (ever in progress) reader was put together at the occasion of the Nvidia Complicit Chips worksession, during which an international group of researchers, activists, and artists dived into the nebulous world of software-operated hardware. Starting from the high density chips produced by NVIDIA, we attempted to get our heads around the much needed divestment from a computer industry complicit in organized violence at borders and in occupied territories, while being so pervasive in running our most mundane daily activities.

Hosted by TITiPI (The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest) in October 2024, this worksession was part of wider series of gatherings bringing together members of the INFRA-RESISTANCE, a constellation of activists, scholars, artists and researchers formed as a response to the Big Tech industry’s central role in providing infrastructural support to, and benefiting from, genocide, ecocide and apartheid. Other gatherings have notably focused on proposals for moving networks and political engagement away from toxic cloud environments or archiving and looking back at archives while adopting methods and tools in line with the aforementioned proposals.

This collection of texts wasn’t assembled with the goal of covering all aspects surrounding the complex conflations of software, hardware, global finance, digital aesthetics, securitisation and militarisation. Rather, it was conceived with the aim of provoking thoughts, triggering conversations and supporting our collective attempt to articulate interdependencies between global financing, AI, hardware development, and computer graphics. Together, we aimed to understand better the depth of the complicity of these industries in extreme violence, inflicted on occupied territories, migrating bodies, on sites of extraction and ultimately on fellow humans.

Through our time together, we initiated a proposal for collaboration in a divestment campaign, extension of preexisting mapping of genocidal infrastructures, hands on work to understand how these chips operate and some analysis of the aesthetisation of military technology. We hope that, beyond the context of this worksession, the circulation of this reader can support fellow comrades sharing the desire to pursue divestment from an industry which provides the material means to both our most mundane activities and human rights violations all at once and fully intertwined.

This reader was put together by Femke Snelting, Helen Pritchard and Sofia Boschat Thorez and might keep evolving. If you have any remarks, suggestions, or work your would like to share, please reach out to us at : infraresistance@emailaddress.com

And if you would consider adopting software that is not complicit in supporting the genocide in Palestine, you can consult the following booklet:

<nowiki>https://titipi.org/pub/infraresistance.pdf</nowiki>

Complicit Chips Reader

2024-10-20T15:58:20Z

SB:

Complicit Chips Reader

2024-10-20T15:56:14Z

SB:

'''NVIDIA COMPLICIT CHIPS : A READER IN PROGRESS FOR THE INFRA-RESISTANCE'''

Accompanying a deep dive into the nebulous world of software-operated hardware, starting from high density chips produced by NVIDIA, this reader compiles a number of texts aimed to be thought provoking.

[https://titipi.domainepublic.net/s/pifWxCjoiTBf5WB NvidiaComplicitChipsReader]

[https://titipi.domainepublic.net/s/QmyDR4EDqGbMKPp Reader in low res]

'''Index'''

'''1. ''September 11 Was Good for Business [extract]''''' in: The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein - 2023

'''2. ''Imperialism, climate crisis and Palestine liberation''''' by Hamza Hamouchene - 2024

'''3. ''In Clover''''', Laleh Khalili – 2022

'''4. ''The Elasticity of Logistics''''' in: The Politics of Operations by Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson - 2019

'''5. ''Tracking and Tracing: Geographies of Logistical Governance and Labouring Bodies''''' by AM Kanngieser – 2013

'''6.''' '''''Colonial Authoritarian Origins and Authoritarian capitalism or the whole thing''''' in: At the Razor’s Edge of Democracy Authoritarian Capitalism and Decolonial International Feminisms by Macarena Gómez-Barris – 2021

'''7. ''Bush I, Semi Chips, Potato Chips''''' in: 1. AI and Tech Industrial Policy: From Post-Cold War Post-Industrialism to Post-Neoliberal Re-Industrialization by Susannah Glickman (in AI Nationalism(s): Global Industrial Policy Approaches to AI) - 2024

'''8. ''Declaration of withdrawal''''' by Shinjoung Yeo – 2023

'''9. ''Not Without us''''' by Joseph Weizenbaum – 1986

'''10. ''Google Employees testimonials''''' from No Tech for Apartheid – 2023

'''11. ''Deadly algorithms: Can legal codes hold software accountable for code that kills?''''' by Susan Schuppli – 2014

'''12. ''The algorithmically accelerated killing machine''''' by Lucy Suchman – 2024

'''13.''' '''''A conversation with Iván Chaar López''''' by Sareeta Amrute and Iván López – 2022

'''14. ''Borders Are Obsolete Part II Reflections on Central American Caravans and Mediterranean Crossings''''' [extract] by Jennifer Mogannam and Leslie Quintanilla - 2021

'''15.''' '''''Refusing Control Abolish Frontex: a decentralised campaign fighting the EU Border Regime''''' by Sanne Stevens - ?

'''16. ''The First Step Is Finding Each Other''''' by Timmy Châu in Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence – 2024

'''17. S''ubmitting a consultation on the White Paper''''': 'On options for enhancing support for research and development involving technologies with dual use potential' by Various Irish Scholars – 2024

'''18 .''Voluptuous Disintegration: A Future History of Black Computational Thought''''' by Romi Morrisson – 2022

'''19. ''There is no software [extract from introduction]''''' by Irina Kaldrack and Martina Leeker – 2015

'''20. ''Introduction: Spoilers Ahead [extract]''''' in: Spoiler Alert A Critical Guide by Aaron Jaffe - 2019

'''21. ''The decline of computers as general purpose technology''''' by Neil C. Thompson and Svenha Spanuth - 2019

'''22. ''In the mouth of a polar bear: The undead feeling of the world''''' in: The Anti-Menagerie by Helen V. Pritchard and Cassandra Troyan - 2021

'''23. ''The “Just in Time” Explosion of Pagers and the New Technologies of Death''''' By Deivison Faustino and Walter Lippold - 2024

'''24. ''For opacity''''' in: Poetics of Relation by Édouard Glissant - 1990

'''25. ''A Reverse-Engineered Insurrection''''' by Miriyam Aouragh - 2020

'''COLOPHON'''

This (ever in progress) reader was put together at the occasion of the Nvidia Complicit Chips worksession, during which an international group of researchers, activists, and artists dived into the nebulous world of software-operated hardware. Starting from the high density chips produced by NVIDIA, we attempted to get our heads around the much needed divestment from a computer industry complicit in organized violence at borders and in occupied territories, while being so pervasive in running our most mundane daily activities.

Hosted by TITiPI (The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest) in October 2024, this worksession was part of wider series of gatherings bringing together members of the INFRA-RESISTANCE, a constellation of activists, scholars, artists and researchers formed as a response to the Big Tech industry’s central role in providing infrastructural support to, and benefiting from, genocide, ecocide and apartheid. Other gatherings have notably focused on proposals for moving networks and political engagement away from toxic cloud environments or archiving and looking back at archives while adopting methods and tools in line with the aforementioned proposals.

This collection of texts wasn’t assembled with the goal of covering all aspects surrounding the complex conflations of software, hardware, global finance, digital aesthetics, securitisation and militarisation. Rather, it was conceived with the aim of provoking thoughts, triggering conversations and supporting our collective attempt to articulate interdependencies between global financing, AI, hardware development, and computer graphics. Together, we aimed to understand better the depth of the complicity of these industries in extreme violence, inflicted on occupied territories, migrating bodies, on sites of extraction and ultimately on fellow humans.

Through our time together, we initiated a proposal for collaboration in a divestment campaign, extension of preexisting mapping of genocidal infrastructures, hands on work on to understand how these chips work and some analysis of the aesthetisation of military technology. We hope that beyond the context of this worksession, the circulation of this reader can support fellow comrades sharing the desire to pursue divestment from an industry which provides the material means to both our most mundane activities and human rights violations all at once and fully intertwined.

This reader was put together by Femke Snelting, Helen Pritchard and Sofia Boschat Thorez and might keep evolving. If you have any remarks, suggestions, or work your would like to share, please reach out to us at : infraresistance@emailaddress.com

And if you would consider adopting software that is not complicit in supporting the genocide in Palestine, you can consult the following booklet:

<nowiki>https://titipi.org/pub/infraresistance.pdf</nowiki>

Complicit Chips Reader

2024-10-20T15:54:32Z

SB: colophon

'''NVIDIA COMPLICIT CHIPS : A READER IN PROGRESS FOR THE INFRA-RESISTANCE'''

Accompanying a deep dive into the nebulous world of software-operated hardware, starting from high density chips produced by NVIDIA, this reader compiles a number of texts aimed to be thought provoking.

[https://titipi.domainepublic.net/s/pifWxCjoiTBf5WB NvidiaComplicitChipsReader]

[https://titipi.domainepublic.net/s/QmyDR4EDqGbMKPp Reader in low res]

'''Index'''

'''1. ''September 11 Was Good for Business [extract]''''' in: The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein - 2023

'''2. ''Imperialism, climate crisis and Palestine liberation''''' by Hamza Hamouchene - 2024

'''3. ''In Clover''''', Laleh Khalili – 2022

'''4. ''The Elasticity of Logistics''''' in: The Politics of Operations by Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson - 2019

'''5. ''Tracking and Tracing: Geographies of Logistical Governance and Labouring Bodies''''' by AM Kanngieser – 2013

'''6.''' '''''Colonial Authoritarian Origins and Authoritarian capitalism or the whole thing''''' in: At the Razor’s Edge of Democracy Authoritarian Capitalism and Decolonial International Feminisms by Macarena Gómez-Barris – 2021

'''7. ''Bush I, Semi Chips, Potato Chips''''' in: 1. AI and Tech Industrial Policy: From Post-Cold War Post-Industrialism to Post-Neoliberal Re-Industrialization by Susannah Glickman (in AI Nationalism(s): Global Industrial Policy Approaches to AI) - 2024

'''8. ''Declaration of withdrawal''''' by Shinjoung Yeo – 2023

'''9. ''Not Without us''''' by Joseph Weizenbaum – 1986

'''10. ''Google Employees testimonials''''' from No Tech for Apartheid – 2023

'''11. ''Deadly algorithms: Can legal codes hold software accountable for code that kills?''''' by Susan Schuppli – 2014

'''12. ''The algorithmically accelerated killing machine''''' by Lucy Suchman – 2024

'''13.''' '''''A conversation with Iván Chaar López''''' by Sareeta Amrute and Iván López – 2022

'''14. ''Borders Are Obsolete Part II Reflections on Central American Caravans and Mediterranean Crossings''''' [extract] by Jennifer Mogannam and Leslie Quintanilla - 2021

'''15.''' '''''Refusing Control Abolish Frontex: a decentralised campaign fighting the EU Border Regime''''' by Sanne Stevens - ?

'''16. ''The First Step Is Finding Each Other''''' by Timmy Châu in Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence – 2024

'''17. S''ubmitting a consultation on the White Paper''''': 'On options for enhancing support for research and development involving technologies with dual use potential' by Various Irish Scholars – 2024

'''18 .''Voluptuous Disintegration: A Future History of Black Computational Thought''''' by Romi Morrisson – 2022

'''19. ''There is no software [extract from introduction]''''' by Irina Kaldrack and Martina Leeker – 2015

'''20. ''Introduction: Spoilers Ahead [extract]''''' in: Spoiler Alert A Critical Guide by Aaron Jaffe - 2019

'''21. ''The decline of computers as general purpose technology''''' by Neil C. Thompson and Svenha Spanuth - 2019

'''22. ''In the mouth of a polar bear: The undead feeling of the world''''' in: The Anti-Menagerie by Helen V. Pritchard and Cassandra Troyan - 2021

'''23. ''The “Just in Time” Explosion of Pagers and the New Technologies of Death''''' By Deivison Faustino and Walter Lippold - 2024

'''24. ''For opacity''''' in: Poetics of Relation by Édouard Glissant - 1990

'''25. ''A Reverse-Engineered Insurrection''''' by Miriyam Aouragh - 2020

'''COLOPHON'''

This (ever in progress) reader was put together at the occasion of the Nvidia Complicit Chips worksession, during which an international group of researchers, activists, and artists dived into the nebulous world of software-operated hardware. Starting from the high density chips produced by NVIDIA, we attempted to get our heads around the much needed divestment from a computer industry complicit in organized violence at borders and in occupied territories, while being so pervasive in running our most mundane daily activities.

Hosted by TITiPI (The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest) in October 2024, this worksession was part of wider series of gatherings bringing together members of the INFRA-RESISTANCE, a constellation of activists, scholars, artists and researchers formed as a response to the Big Tech industry’s central role in providing infrastructural support to, and benefiting from, genocide, ecocide and apartheid. Other gatherings have notably focused on proposals for moving networks and political engagement away from toxic cloud environments or archiving and looking back at archives while adopting methods and tools in line with the aforementioned proposals.

This collection of texts wasn’t assembled with the goal of covering all aspects surrounding the complex conflations of software, hardware, global finance, digital aesthetics, securitisation and militarisation Rather, it was conceived with the aim of provoking thoughts, triggering conversations and supporting our collective attempt to articulate interdependencies between global financing, AI, hardware development, and computer graphics. Together, we aimed to understand better the depth of the complicity of these industries in extreme violence, inflicted on occupied territories, migrating bodies, on sites of extraction and ultimately on fellow humans.

Through our time together, we initiated a proposal for collaboration in a divestment campaign, extension of preexisting mapping of genocidal infrastructures, hands on work on to understand how these chips work and some analysis of the aesthetisation of military technology. We hope that beyond the context of this worksession, the circulation of this reader can support fellow comrades sharing the desire to pursue divestment from an industry which provides the material means to both our most mundane activities and human rights violations all at once and fully intertwined.

This reader was put together by Femke Snelting, Helen Pritchard and Sofia Boschat Thorez and might keep evolving. If you have any remarks, suggestions, or work your would like to share, please reach out to us at : infraresistance@emailaddress.com

And if you would consider adopting software that is not complicit in supporting the genocide in Palestine, you can consult the following booklet:

<nowiki>https://titipi.org/pub/infraresistance.pdf</nowiki>

Complicit Chips call

2024-10-20T14:40:29Z

SB: page for the call (will change the other to documentation)

5-6 October 2024, Brussels

Complicit Chips is a two day session of radical transdisciplinary research, bringing together different types of expertise around the complex conflations of software, hardware, global finance, digital aesthetics, securitisation and militarisation. Collectively, we will dive into the nebulous world of software-operated hardware, starting from the high density chips produced by NVIDIA, a company that in recent years has transformed from a mid-size producer of hard- and software for accelerated computer graphics into the 'Taylor Swift for investors'. NVIDIA's chips for computing AI, are a resource intensive offering that alongside game graphics, forest monitoring and medical devices include technologies used by the military and for policing. Deployed in the cloud through urban combat drones, mobile computing, edge-to-cloud and 5G telecommunication, NVIDIA has a near-monopoly on the GPU market. In Complicit Chips we ask: how can we approach the involvement of the computer industry in organised violence at borders and in occupied territories? And in what ways can we resist the violence of cloudified chips that have become central to computational processing, from weather apps to autonomous robots, from the smartphones in our pockets to occupied territories?

As an enterprise, NVIDIA is currently worth $2 trillion, and its hard- and software products for high-performance computing are in increasing demand due to the hyped global desire for everything-AI. Promoting applications for gaming, telecom, scientific research, aviation and logistics, its numerous military contracts with agencies such as DARPA and arms companies such as Lockheed Martin are widely known. In November 2023 the company completed the first stage of the worlds largest supercomputer aptly named Israel-1 ahead of schedule, providing plenty of exaflops to a country that is known for using AI in automated assassination and killing. As became public knowledge in the last few months, so-called AI tools such as Lavender, Find Daddy and The Gospel are used by the Israeli army to draw up kill lists, target individuals at home and aim at critical infrastructures. Their NVIDIA Jetson TX2 CPU is used in the widely reported LANIUS elbit urban combat assassination drones thought to be used in Gaza and sold globally to border agencies. It is difficult to prove whether NVIDIA technology powers a genocide in Palestine, but hard to defend they are not contributing to and profiting from the surge in so-called intelligent warfare. With thousands of workers located in Israel and the Westbank, of which a few hundreds work in the Israeli army and some were victim of the Hamas attacks, the company has been surprisingly successful in keeping its public profile neutral, and uphold that "no politics or hierarchy stands in the way of inventing the future." In recent months, NVIDIA has shown no signs of deinvestment in plants and labs co-constructing the Israeli start-up nation.

Knowing that Palestine is a testing ground for technologies that then are sold back to the rest of the world to weaponize immigration control, the case of NVIDIA seems worth trying to get our heads around. What does it mean when over 80% of gaming chips are sold by the same company that also runs the NVIDIA Isaac Lab for training "Spot", the entertaining high-tech robotdog deployed already in Gaza and to attack protestors in the US and UK, soon aiding borderpatrol and deadly push backs? What are the relentless ways these chips are complicit in expanding racial capitalism? How to intervene in the amalgamate of techniques such as scanning and 3d mapping, instant rendering, biometric verification, automated deception detection, document authentication, and risk assessment that border agencies deploy to survey migrating people without constraint? What is the role of cloudified chips in the further logistification and depletion of life? How to not feel overwhelmed and keep our anger while finding ways to make actual incisions in the industrial continuum of carefully constructed unavoidability?

From 5-6 October a group of 25 infra-artists, anti-racist poets, game hackers, computer scientists, hardware activists, political economists and others will come together in Brussels to articulate how those chips that power so-called AI are accelerating the decoupling of solidarity and life on multiple levels. We'll try to articulate interdependencies between global financing, AI, hardware development, and computer graphics and how these industries are complicit in extreme violence, inflicted on occupied territories, migrating bodies, on sites of extraction and ultimately on all of us. Most importantly, we'll use all means necessary to figure out ways to contest, resist and undo some or all of these systems.

Complicit Chips is a collective research session hosted by TITiPI, supported by the INFRA-RESISTANCE network of networks, De Vlaamse Overheid and SoLIXG. The session is in person. We will prepare a reader and there will be inputs from activists, artists and scholars, but most of the weekend we will work together in smaller groups.

Location: Jetsesteenweg 388, Brussels [[HQ|https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/HQ]]

Saturday 5 October: 11:00-18:00, Sunday 6 October: 10:00-17:00 with public sharing at 18:00

Complicit Chips Reader

2024-10-20T14:38:32Z

SB: index reader

Complicit Chips Reader

2024-10-18T14:26:12Z

SB: low res reader

NVIDIA COMPLICIT CHIPS : A READER IN PROGRESS FOR THE INFRA-RESISTANCE

Accompanying a deep dive into the nebulous world of software-operated hardware, starting from high density chips produced by NVIDIA, this reader compiles a number of texts aimed to be thought provoking.

[https://titipi.domainepublic.net/s/pifWxCjoiTBf5WB NvidiaComplicitChipsReader]

[https://titipi.domainepublic.net/s/QmyDR4EDqGbMKPp Reader in low res]

Complicit Chips Reader

2024-10-16T20:42:04Z

SB: Created the page with the Nvidia Complicit Chips Reader

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2024-10-16T20:31:59Z

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*[https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/NVIDIACOMPLICITCHIPS NVIDIA COMPLICIT CHIPS: a reader for the infra resistance]
*[https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/RESISTANT_INFRA RESISTANT INFRA: infrastructures for resistance/resistant infrastructures]
*[https://titipi.org/pub/potentialremoval/ Potential Removal] (with Peter Westenberg)
*[https://titipi.org/projects/discomfort/CatalogOFFDigitalDiscomfort.pdf A Catalogue of Formats for Digital Discomfort] (Jara Rocha)
*[[Infrastructural Interactions Workbook]] → [[Unfolding:Infrastructural_Interactions|wiki/plain text version]]
*[https://titipi.org/pub/Infrables.pdf Infrables] → [[Infrable-collection|wiki/plain text version]]
*[https://titipi.org/pub/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan.pdf Counter Cloud Action Plan] → [[Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan|wiki/plain text version]]
*[[Onderwijs_en_big_tech|Onderwijs en cloud services]] (In Dutch. Opinies, artikelen en referenties in het Nederlands over de dominantie van Big Tech cloud services in het (hoger) onderwijs)
*[https://titipi.org/pub/Suspicious_Systems.html The Suspicious System: A conversation on the rise of automated bureaucracies]
*[https://titipi.org/pub/FAQ.pdf Frequently Asked Questions about Trans*Feminist Counter Cloud Action] → [[FAQ|wiki/plain text version]]
* Overview of [[wiki-to-pdf|wiki-to-pdf publications]]
* Overview of [[Publications|published papers, interviews and podcasts]]

==== Bug reports ====

*[[The long tail of contact tracing]]
*[[When governments move fast and break things|EU Digital COVID Certificates: When governments move fast and break things]]

=== Meta-Methods ===

*[[Infrable-collection|Infrables]]
*[[Palliative Care|Socio-technical Palliative Care]]
*[[Operations Room]]

*[[:category:methods|Methods page]]

=== Imbricated projects ===
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=== Creative infrastructures ===

*[[wiki-to-pdf-manual]] (with Infrastructural Manouevres)
*[https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/titipi/burrow Burrow] (with Aggeliki Diakrousi)
*[https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/titipi/ Gitlab repository]
*[https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/titipi/Tardigraph Tardigraph] (with Martino Morandi)
*[[TITiPI's local server|Local server]] installation manual

=== Consultancy ===

*Digital Ethics Audit: [[Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan|Counter Cloud Action Plan]] (with NEoN)

=== Community research ===

* [[Revisiting Palestine Online]] (Miriyam Aouragh)
* [[Complicit Chips]]

==== Commissions ====

* Other Weapons, [[Other_Weapons|What have you given up in the name of safety?]] (research report)
* Gwen Barnard, Naomi Alizah Cohen, [[Notes Towards an Antifascist Infrastructural Analysis]] (research report)

==== Fellowships ====

* [[InfraMaintenance|LaaS, Life as a Service. InfraMaintenance]] Fellowship 2023 (with Hangar & La Virreina)

=== Campaign materials ===

* [[Pocketpower!]] (with Varia for Thehmm)
* [[Digital Depletion Posters]] (with Cristina Cochior, Batool Desouky for NEoN)
* [[Slogans]] (various authors)
* [[:Category:Downloads|Downloads]]

=== Institutional documents ===

* [[Infra colophon|Infrastructure Colophon]]
* [[statuten|TITiPI articles of association]]
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