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Accepted Paper:
Short abstract:
In this paper we outline a disobedient action research approach in which we as 'The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest' (TITiPI) work on ways to collectively articulate community concerns on anticipatory infra-solutionism for the digital and green transition.
Long abstract:
In this paper we discuss a disobedient action research approach to collectively articulate community concerns on anticipatory infra-solutionism for the digital and green transition within the context of the recovery policies of the EU and UK. This contribution tells the story of a 'bugreport' that was written as a community collective action against Frontier Climate. The report was filed by 'The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest' (TITiPI) and written in collaboration with a group of researchers, activists, artists, technologists concerned with business-as-usual attitudes towards climate change as infra solutionism. It reports on an ongoing attempt to collectively articulate and contest a practice put in place by Frontier Climate, a powerful consortium between Big Tech companies and global consultancy firm McKinsey. In direct response to the future business opportunities created by UK and EU governments and in the context of climate urgencies, Frontier Climate offers a computational-cloud-based-infrastructure for both creating a market and an opportunity for accumulation through what they call “advance market commitments”.
We discuss how Frontier Climate attempts to capture other sociotechnical futures by the imaginative monopoly of carbon removal. However as we show communities are responding to, taking up and remaking infrastructural shifts in creative and quotidian ways and in this paper we specifically seek to understand how “The Frontier Climate Bugreport” generates new creative practices for the future workings of prefigurative politics, and infrastructural narratives––suggesting both resistances to transitions and imagining the closures of computational infrastructures and fossil fuel extraction.
Futures work
Session 2 Wednesday 17 July, 2024, -