Screenstudies 4

BDS targets quadrant (Sept 2025)

BDS campaign to target CISCO

a fanzine reporting on a university organised resistance against Microsoft use due to its genocidal complicity

banners in preparation for a demonstration for Palestine

https://titipi.org/pub/A_TITiPI_bulletin_on_Microsoft_and_Israel.html

screen capture reporting on media complicity with genocide

back side of a number of Logic(s) magazine

"clouds kill" textile banner on a demonstration

a brief on Nimbus

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La cultura digital, mediada por una multiplicidad de dispositivos dispares pero vinculados por estandarizaciones semióticas y dependencias materiales en cadena, es parte del complejo industrial militar y de fronteras. La urgencia por controlar las políticas de mediación computacional mientras de forma simultanea se ejecutan guerras y genocidios altamente digitalizados, es un rasgo claro del ecosistema de pantallas contemporaneo.

screenshot of an animation by The Underground Division on complicity of chip manufacturers

Material clave:

El evangelio según Google: el rol de las tecnologías y las Big Tech en el genocidio palestino https://www.elsaltodiario.com/atenea_cyborg/evangelio-segun-google-rol-tecnologias-big-tech-genocidio-palestino

TITiPI bulletin on Microsoft and Israel https://titipi.org/pub/A_TITiPI_bulletin_on_Microsoft_and_Israel.html

Cloud Capitalism (conferencia) https://hva-uva.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Embed.aspx?id=273128b8-bb6a-41d9-91cd-b3fa00e457c7&autoplay=false&offervieweo=true&showtitle=true&showbrand=true&captions=false&interactivity=all

Condiciones liberales

Ian Alan Paul (2024), Liberal Infernos https://assets.ctfassets.net/zzo3jtyu2pmq/1Qq6wpXKNDBK0QgVLWYfTy/20f69dda7410faf377235e2f55deb894/Liberal_Infernos_-_READ.pdf

The liberal order overseeing and administering the genocide in Palestine is built upon the marriage of egalitarian values and exterminating violence, upon the intimate coupling of supposedly hallowed rights and the hell it unleashes upon the world. Arms must continue to be delivered, just as their use must be denounced and condemned. Demonstrations must be celebrated, just as orders must be given to smother them with tear gas. Everything thus burns twice, as the fuel of liberal politics and the fuel of liberal carnage, feeding an inferno whose fires rage ever more democratically. If there is no need to resolve the formal tension between its abstract ideals and its violent realities, this is because liberalism is the indefinite elaboration of this contradiction. For every sanctified constitution, there is a detention camp that will never close; for every promised equality, there is an economy imposing its cruel hierarchies upon every area of life; for each civic norm, a mob of police marching through the streets drunk on power.

Ian Alan Paul (2025), The Retircular Society https://www.ianalanpaul.com/thereticularsociety.html

Cibercidio

Miriyam Aouragh (2023) Resisting Cybercide, Strengthening Solidarity: Standing up to Israel’s Digital Occupation https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0345.14.pdf

This cybercide is intimately embedded in military procedures: employing the Internet is not a random move. The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector itself is part of the military industrial complex. The urge to control the politics of mediation while simultaneously conducting cyber warfare was most clearly seen for the first time during the July 2006 war on Lebanon. Two and a half years later, Israel organised the military invasion of Gaza (Operation Cast Lead) — one of the bloodiest to that date in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) — where its Internet skills were significantly stronger.

Yuval Abraham (2023) ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/

Judith Membrives i Llorens, Eurídice Cabañes (2025) Nuevas trincheras para la guerra: la optimización del genocidio y la viralidad de la resistencia palestina https://www.elsaltodiario.com/atenea_cyborg/nuevas-trincheras-guerra-optimizacion-del-genocidio-viralidad-resistencia-palestina

Miriyam Aouragh, Between Cybercide and Cyber Intifada: Technologic (dis-) Empowerment of Palestinian Activism, in: Jayyusi, L., & Roald, A. S. (eds), Media and Political Contestation in the Contemporary Arab World: A Decade of Change (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 129–60, https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137539076_6

Miriyam Aouragh, Hasbara 2.0: Israel’s Public Diplomacy in the Digital Age, Middle East Critique, 25:3 (2016), 271–97, https://doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2016.1179432

Miriyam Aouragh & TITipi (2008 - 2025), (Revisiting) Palestine Online Revisiting Palestine Online

Apoorva PG Seeing The World Like A Palestinian. Intersectional Struggles Against Big Tech and Israeli Apartheid https://www.tni.org/en/article/seeing-the-world-like-a-palestinian

7amleh - Gaza Digital Economy Collapse https://7amleh.org/post/gaza-digital-economy-collapse-en

Complicidades

Infrastructural Resistance (2024), Complicit Chips (reader)

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?

Anthony Lowenstein (video) The Story of how Big Tech went Evil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTfQo4t_zVY

Dual (ab)use

Infrastructural Resistance (2025), Dual (ab)use (reader)

what does it mean to resist binary legal, transactional or ontological categories as structuring elements of our realities and everyday lives?

Automated Apartheid (informe Amnistía Internacional sobre biométrica aplicada al apartheid israelí) https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/6701/2023/en/

widespread bulk monitoring, collection, storage, analysis or other use of material and collection of sensitive personal data (biometric data) without individualised reasonable suspicion of criminal wrongdoing – which amounts to indiscriminate mass surveillance.

La Capella, programa "Escuela de elfantes dentro de la habitación" 2025 https://www.lacapella.barcelona/es/programacion/actividades/tecnologias-de-doble-abuso-escuela-de-elefantes-dentro-de-la-habitacion

Monica Basbous (2026) Neither Combatant Nor Civilian https://averyreview.com/issues/74/neither-combatant-nor-civilian

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Infrastructural Resistance (booklet) https://titipi.org/pub/infraresistance.pdf

BDS, No Tech for Opression, Appartheid or Genocide https://bdsmovement.net/no-tech-oppression-apartheid-or-genocide

After weapons manufacturers, technology is arguably the second most complicit sector in Israel’s ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in the illegally occupied and besieged Gaza Strip and its underlying, decades-old settler-colonial apartheid regime against the entire Indigenous Palestinian people. This makes tech targets a priority for the BDS movement.

7amleh – The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media (2026) How EU Funding and Exports of High-risk AI Systems Exacerbate Severe Human Rights Violations in Palestine and the Broader Region https://7amleh.org/post/eu-funding-export-high-risk-ai-palestine-region-en + https://7amleh.org/storage/posts/pdf/e028fb57-2dad-4a05-992d-3e823bba52ca.pdf

Pantufest vs Big Tech & el Genocido - materiales, zines, autoedición https://humo.sindominio.net/s/sdmPHtP3cDw6Ykr

No Tech for Apartheid https://www.notechforapartheid.com/

AI War Cloud https://aiwar.cloud/

Tech Workers Coalition https://techworkerscoalition.org/

vignette of microsoft aid character inviting to divest/boycott big tech