Manuela Zechner
@manuelaz.bsky.social
Researcher & facilitator @ the Common Ecologies School, Future Archive and Uni Cph. Author of "Commoning Care&Collective Power". Earthcare, commons, collective thinking and action #FreePalestine
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Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani, mayor-elect of New York City and the movements that organized to make this moment possible.
November 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani, mayor-elect of New York City and the movements that organized to make this moment possible.
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How can we go from a more or less diffuse sense of being affected, of ‘feeling it’, in these times of crisis and conflict, to concrete forms of literacy, mutualism, and infrastructure?
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@manuelaz.bsky.social @commonecologies.bsky.social
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@manuelaz.bsky.social @commonecologies.bsky.social
A Politics of Affectness: How May We Build Agency From ‘Feeling It’? · BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DE
How can we go from a more or less diffuse sense of being affected, of ‘feeling it’, in these times of crisis and conflict, to concrete forms of literacy, mutualism, and infrastructure? Manuela Zechner...
berlinergazette.de
October 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
How can we go from a more or less diffuse sense of being affected, of ‘feeling it’, in these times of crisis and conflict, to concrete forms of literacy, mutualism, and infrastructure?
berlinergazette.de/a-politics-o...
@manuelaz.bsky.social @commonecologies.bsky.social
berlinergazette.de/a-politics-o...
@manuelaz.bsky.social @commonecologies.bsky.social
My latest on the occasion of the Common Ecologies gathering
How can we go from a more or less diffuse sense of being affected, of ‘feeling it’, in these times of crisis and conflict, to concrete forms of literacy, mutualism, and infrastructure? Manuela Zechner outlines a plural politics of affectedess
berlinergazette.de/a-politics-o...
berlinergazette.de/a-politics-o...
A Politics of Affectness: How May We Build Agency From ‘Feeling It’? · BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DE
How can we go from a more or less diffuse sense of being affected, of ‘feeling it’, in these times of crisis and conflict, to concrete forms of literacy, mutualism, and infrastructure? Manuela Zechner...
berlinergazette.de
October 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
My latest on the occasion of the Common Ecologies gathering
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DATA VAMPIRES is a four-part series digging into the costs of hyperscale data centers and why tech billionaires are so desperate to build more.
In Part 1, we explore where “the cloud” came from and how it expands the power of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/241_...
In Part 1, we explore where “the cloud” came from and how it expands the power of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/241_...
October 7, 2024 at 2:15 PM
DATA VAMPIRES is a four-part series digging into the costs of hyperscale data centers and why tech billionaires are so desperate to build more.
In Part 1, we explore where “the cloud” came from and how it expands the power of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/241_...
In Part 1, we explore where “the cloud” came from and how it expands the power of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/241_...
Just when you think you've heard of the most horrible and it can't be much worse.. www.aljazeera.com/features/202... We must keep mobilising, now more than ever, for accountability and justice of this insane genocide and long ongoing ethnic cleansing
Israel’s exploding robots still terrorise Gaza neighbourhoods
Israeli forces have erased entire Gaza neighbourhoods by deploying remotely controlled explosives.
www.aljazeera.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Just when you think you've heard of the most horrible and it can't be much worse.. www.aljazeera.com/features/202... We must keep mobilising, now more than ever, for accountability and justice of this insane genocide and long ongoing ethnic cleansing
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She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.
October 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.
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Live liveatream for some ships in the Flotilla www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
Live reporting: www.middleeasteye.net/live/israel-...
Live reporting: www.middleeasteye.net/live/israel-...
24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Live liveatream for some ships in the Flotilla www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
Live reporting: www.middleeasteye.net/live/israel-...
Live reporting: www.middleeasteye.net/live/israel-...
Boycott Israel forever
Israel’s invasion of Gaza City: in images and maps on.ft.com/4ny0D20
Israel’s invasion of Gaza City: in images and maps
Assault on enclave’s largest city triggers exodus of Palestinians and one of war’s most destructive chapters
on.ft.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Boycott Israel forever
We need such tribunals in all our countries. In the German speaking world this will be striking and urgent. Important groundwork for international justice thegazatribunal.uk The recordings here are well worth a watch
Gaza Tribunal: Inquiry into War Crimes and Complicity | The Gaza Tribunal
Explore the Gaza Tribunal, an official inquiry into Britain's role in Israeli war crimes. Stay informed with updates, watch sessions, and learn about the tribunal's mission to seek justice and account...
thegazatribunal.uk
September 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
We need such tribunals in all our countries. In the German speaking world this will be striking and urgent. Important groundwork for international justice thegazatribunal.uk The recordings here are well worth a watch
Love, strength and respect to the good people #FreePalestine #SupportPalestineAction
August 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Love, strength and respect to the good people #FreePalestine #SupportPalestineAction
It's always urgent and hardcore to read this, but to read it right now is just wild. Must read for all of us who haven't done enough homework on Zionism. #FreePalestine
August 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It's always urgent and hardcore to read this, but to read it right now is just wild. Must read for all of us who haven't done enough homework on Zionism. #FreePalestine
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“When a student falls unconscious, we just assume they have not eaten for two days. And we move on.”
Eman Basher spoke to Dr. Izzedin Shahin, who works while starving, stitching wounds that won’t heal for lack of protein.
Read More: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
Eman Basher spoke to Dr. Izzedin Shahin, who works while starving, stitching wounds that won’t heal for lack of protein.
Read More: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
Starvation as a Weapon: Gaza’s Slow Death Under Siege
Palestine Square
www.palestine-studies.org
August 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
“When a student falls unconscious, we just assume they have not eaten for two days. And we move on.”
Eman Basher spoke to Dr. Izzedin Shahin, who works while starving, stitching wounds that won’t heal for lack of protein.
Read More: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
Eman Basher spoke to Dr. Izzedin Shahin, who works while starving, stitching wounds that won’t heal for lack of protein.
Read More: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
Check this out - programme in progress and looking more exciting every time - can't wait for these conversations and what comes from there
Calling all allies! Our Autumn Gathering rough programme is now up, check it out! We can't wait for this - and will be updating the page as we confirm names, exact times and locations.
Watch this space, and register if you've decided to join us! commonecologies.net/events/autum...
Watch this space, and register if you've decided to join us! commonecologies.net/events/autum...
Autumn Gathering '25 - Programme
Here you can find the programme of our gathering as it evolves - registrations now open!
commonecologies.net
July 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Check this out - programme in progress and looking more exciting every time - can't wait for these conversations and what comes from there
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Here are some of my notes for a presentation on the "ethics" of AI.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/06/dont...
www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/06/dont...
Don't Praise the Machine: AI and the Destruction of Three Ecologies
www.unemployednegativity.com
June 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Here are some of my notes for a presentation on the "ethics" of AI.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/06/dont...
www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/06/dont...
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Common Ecologies Autumn Gathering:
THE POLITICS OF AFFECTEDNESS
24-26 October, Barcelona
Please share widely! 🔥
THE POLITICS OF AFFECTEDNESS
24-26 October, Barcelona
Please share widely! 🔥
June 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Common Ecologies Autumn Gathering:
THE POLITICS OF AFFECTEDNESS
24-26 October, Barcelona
Please share widely! 🔥
THE POLITICS OF AFFECTEDNESS
24-26 October, Barcelona
Please share widely! 🔥
This is what we're cooking up for the autumn. We want to talk about socioeconomic, psychosomatech and geopolitical affectedness - and how we may organise around them ecologically, in these times. Ally, liaise, join, learn, align and unalign. Programme coming in July
How to organize in a time of polycrisis? At this year’s Autumn Gathering in Barcelona, we’ll explore how strategies shaped around a “politics of affectedness” can guide us.
commonecologies.net/events/autum...
commonecologies.net/events/autum...
Autumn Gathering '25: The Politics of Affectedness
How to organize in a time of polycrisis? At this year’s Autumn Gathering, we’ll explore how strategies shaped around a "politics of affectedness" can guide us.
commonecologies.net
June 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is what we're cooking up for the autumn. We want to talk about socioeconomic, psychosomatech and geopolitical affectedness - and how we may organise around them ecologically, in these times. Ally, liaise, join, learn, align and unalign. Programme coming in July
Next week we've got a conversation scheduled with the legendary @fuhem.bsky.social, Madrid-based folks who have a longstanding & amazing track record doing ecosocial justice education. Major inspiration. We got ENG-ES translation for this: join us to get to know work and analysis little known in EN.
How do we transform education in a eco-social direction?
Join our next Open Classroom where FUHEM, a Spanish eco-educational institution, will present its work on social justice, alternative economics, democracy & sustainability!
May 22, 18-19.30 CET on zoom.
commonecologies.net/events/open-...
Join our next Open Classroom where FUHEM, a Spanish eco-educational institution, will present its work on social justice, alternative economics, democracy & sustainability!
May 22, 18-19.30 CET on zoom.
commonecologies.net/events/open-...
Open Classroom #4: Transforming Education - the Ecosocial Curriculum and Schools of FUHEM (ES/ENG)
Join our next Open Classroom where FUHEM, a Spanish eco-educational institution, will present their work on social justice, alternative economics, democracy and sustainability.
commonecologies.net
May 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Next week we've got a conversation scheduled with the legendary @fuhem.bsky.social, Madrid-based folks who have a longstanding & amazing track record doing ecosocial justice education. Major inspiration. We got ENG-ES translation for this: join us to get to know work and analysis little known in EN.
Starting in an hour in Vienna as well as online - a golden opportunity to get a thorough update and deep analysis from amazing activists, including firsthand pictures and stories of newest developments... Join us for inspiration on how to fight extractivism in transversal + ecosocial ways :)
If you haven't been following the anti-extractivist uprising in Serbia here's a chance! Join us on this Saturday at 17.00CET for our Open Classroom discussion of the powerful Serbian protests - online or in person in Vienna.
commonecologies.net/events/open-...
commonecologies.net/events/open-...
commonecologies.net
May 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Starting in an hour in Vienna as well as online - a golden opportunity to get a thorough update and deep analysis from amazing activists, including firsthand pictures and stories of newest developments... Join us for inspiration on how to fight extractivism in transversal + ecosocial ways :)
Reposted by Manuela Zechner
If you haven't been following the anti-extractivist uprising in Serbia here's a chance! Join us on this Saturday at 17.00CET for our Open Classroom discussion of the powerful Serbian protests - online or in person in Vienna.
commonecologies.net/events/open-...
commonecologies.net/events/open-...
commonecologies.net
May 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
If you haven't been following the anti-extractivist uprising in Serbia here's a chance! Join us on this Saturday at 17.00CET for our Open Classroom discussion of the powerful Serbian protests - online or in person in Vienna.
commonecologies.net/events/open-...
commonecologies.net/events/open-...
Saturday!
If you haven't been following the anti-extractivist uprising in Serbia here's a chance! Join us on this Saturday at 17.00CET for our Open Classroom discussion of the powerful Serbian protests - online or in person in Vienna.
commonecologies.net/events/open-...
commonecologies.net/events/open-...
commonecologies.net
May 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Saturday!
Very useful text on AI in Education - thanks to @berlinergazette.bsky.social - and one of many pieces of reflection we'll need to come up with, to formulate a new technopolitics to face the becoming wrecked/fascist/homogeneous of our worlds.. berlinergazette.de/rethinking-e...
‘I Produce Language, Therefore I Am’: Rethinking Education in AI-Capitalism · BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DE
While earlier digital media gradually removed the world from the equation, replacing it with technically generated simulations, AI now goes a step further by removing the human from the equation altog...
berlinergazette.de
April 29, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Very useful text on AI in Education - thanks to @berlinergazette.bsky.social - and one of many pieces of reflection we'll need to come up with, to formulate a new technopolitics to face the becoming wrecked/fascist/homogeneous of our worlds.. berlinergazette.de/rethinking-e...
We need a new technopolitics and it's going to have to involve boycotting and resisting AI www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas
Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We need a new technopolitics and it's going to have to involve boycotting and resisting AI www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Dear Schland, am Montag geb ich in Koblenz einen Workshop zu "Countermapping care and collectivity: macro,
micro und co." am Methodenfestival der @hfgg.bsky.social. Es geht drum, sozial-ökologische Reproduktion und Beziehungsgeflechte situiert anders zu denken. 2 Plätze frei! hfgg.de/events/event...
micro und co." am Methodenfestival der @hfgg.bsky.social. Es geht drum, sozial-ökologische Reproduktion und Beziehungsgeflechte situiert anders zu denken. 2 Plätze frei! hfgg.de/events/event...
Spring School 2025 | Hochschule für Gesellschaftsgestaltung
In einer spannenden Woche voller fundierter Workshops werden wir lernen, transdisziplinär zu forschen und transformative Veränderungen zu bewirken.
hfgg.de
April 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Dear Schland, am Montag geb ich in Koblenz einen Workshop zu "Countermapping care and collectivity: macro,
micro und co." am Methodenfestival der @hfgg.bsky.social. Es geht drum, sozial-ökologische Reproduktion und Beziehungsgeflechte situiert anders zu denken. 2 Plätze frei! hfgg.de/events/event...
micro und co." am Methodenfestival der @hfgg.bsky.social. Es geht drum, sozial-ökologische Reproduktion und Beziehungsgeflechte situiert anders zu denken. 2 Plätze frei! hfgg.de/events/event...
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Extra listening to go with our episode on the Politics of Tech! Check out this intro to the #Luddite movement: how textile workers resisted the automation of labour and factory regimes, grew into a powerful mass movement, and why that's ever so relevant open.spotify.com/episode/2eGF... by @99pi.org
February 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Extra listening to go with our episode on the Politics of Tech! Check out this intro to the #Luddite movement: how textile workers resisted the automation of labour and factory regimes, grew into a powerful mass movement, and why that's ever so relevant open.spotify.com/episode/2eGF... by @99pi.org
Whatever the exact amount of energy AI search uses compared to conventional browser search, it's definitely huge, and it's very likely not worth it. Meaning: not worth the planetary destruction for sure, not even worth the human effort supposedly saved in the everyday.
February 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Whatever the exact amount of energy AI search uses compared to conventional browser search, it's definitely huge, and it's very likely not worth it. Meaning: not worth the planetary destruction for sure, not even worth the human effort supposedly saved in the everyday.