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'''NVIDIA COMPLICIT CHIPS : A READER IN PROGRESS FOR THE INFRA-RESISTANCE'''
== Complicit Chips: A Reader in Progress for 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.
[[File:1024-1365.jpg|thumb|A yellow reader held together with a black binder, on top of an Infrastructural Resistance booklet, on top of a piece of paper reading: "DO (NOT) TAKE FORWARD"]] This (ever in progress) reader was put together at the occasion of the [[Complicit Chips]] worksession, in which we tried to approach the involvement of the computer industry in organised violence at borders and in occupied territories.


[https://titipi.domainepublic.net/s/pifWxCjoiTBf5WB NvidiaComplicitChipsReader]
The 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 aims to provoke thoughts, trigger conversations and support our collective attempt to articulate interdependencies between global financing, AI, hardware development, and computer graphics. How to resist the deep complicity of these industries in extreme violence, inflicted on sites of extraction, on occupied territories and on migrating bodies?


[https://titipi.domainepublic.net/s/QmyDR4EDqGbMKPp Reader in low res]
We hope that, beyond the context of the 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 in October 2024. If you have any remarks, suggestions, or work you would like to share for a next version, please reach out to us at: titipi@titipi.org


And if you would consider adopting software attempts at not being complicit in supporting the genocide in Palestine, you can consult the following booklet: https://titipi.org/pub/infraresistance.pdf


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


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


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


'''3. ''In Clover''''', Laleh Khalili – 2022
# ''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
# ''Imperialism, climate crisis and Palestine liberation'' by Hamza Hamouchene – 2024
# ''In Clover'', Laleh Khalili – 2022
# ''The Elasticity of Logistics'' in: The Politics of Operations by Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson – 2019
# ''Tracking and Tracing: Geographies of Logistical Governance and Labouring Bodies'' by AM Kanngieser – 2013
# ''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
# ''Bush I, Semi Chips, Potato Chips'' in: 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
# ''Declaration of withdrawal'' by Shinjoung Yeo – 2023
# ''Not Without us'' by Joseph Weizenbaum – 1986
# ''Google Employees testimonials'' from No Tech for Apartheid – 2023
# ''Deadly algorithms: Can legal codes hold software accountable for code that kills?'' by Susan Schuppli – 2014
# ''The algorithmically accelerated killing machine'' by Lucy Suchman – 2024
# ''A conversation with Iván Chaar López'' by Sareeta Amrute and Iván López – 2022
# ''Borders Are Obsolete Part II Reflections on Central American Caravans and Mediterranean Crossings'' [extract] by Jennifer Mogannam and Leslie Quintanilla – 2021
# ''Refusing Control Abolish Frontex: a decentralised campaign fighting the EU Border Regime'' by Sanne Stevens – ?
# ''The First Step Is Finding Each Other'' by Timmy Châu in Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence – 2024
# ''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
# ''Voluptuous Disintegration: A Future History of Black Computational Thought'' by Romi Morrisson – 2022
# ''There is no software [extract from introduction]'' by Irina Kaldrack and Martina Leeker – 2015
# ''Introduction: Spoilers Ahead [extract]'' in: Spoiler Alert A Critical Guide by Aaron Jaffe – 2019
# ''The decline of computers as general purpose technology'' by Neil C. Thompson and Svenha Spanuth – 2019
# ''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
# ''The “Just in Time” Explosion of Pagers and the New Technologies of Death'' By Deivison Faustino and Walter Lippold – 2024
# ''For opacity'' in: Poetics of Relation by Édouard Glissant – 1990
# ''A Reverse-Engineered Insurrection'' by Miriyam Aouragh – 2020


'''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
[[Category: Complicit Chips]]
 
'''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>

Latest revision as of 05:37, 30 October 2024

Complicit Chips: A Reader in Progress for Infra-Resistance

A yellow reader held together with a black binder, on top of an Infrastructural Resistance booklet, on top of a piece of paper reading: "DO (NOT) TAKE FORWARD"

This (ever in progress) reader was put together at the occasion of the Complicit Chips worksession, in which we tried to approach the involvement of the computer industry in organised violence at borders and in occupied territories.

The 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 aims to provoke thoughts, trigger conversations and support our collective attempt to articulate interdependencies between global financing, AI, hardware development, and computer graphics. How to resist the deep complicity of these industries in extreme violence, inflicted on sites of extraction, on occupied territories and on migrating bodies?

We hope that, beyond the context of the 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 in October 2024. If you have any remarks, suggestions, or work you would like to share for a next version, please reach out to us at: titipi@titipi.org

And if you would consider adopting software attempts at not being complicit in supporting the genocide in Palestine, you can consult the following booklet: https://titipi.org/pub/infraresistance.pdf

Download Reader full res

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: 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
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