Door: The Infra-structure resistance group (September 2025)
“Another year of zoom meetings, google calendar and sharepoint folders to be seemingly smoothly streamlined to our desktop, blackboard or phone. There’s evidently an elephant in the room.
This is a call to collaborate so we can finally kick the elephant in the room out of our meetings, collective spaces and classrooms. It is time to liberate our organisations and rip up whatever supports the military industrial knowledge production complex. This includes ending the institutional regime of subscription contracts which are complicit with genocidal forces.”
“This letter is a reminder to ourselves that we are experienced organisers, people who know how to learn and teach together, find ways to hold complexity, figuring out processes for collective work. These technologies are not helping us, they’re hindering these specific capacities we’ve been cultivating together throughout generations of critical work.
We’re not naive, we know it will not happen overnight and that dependencies are hard to untangle because they run through most individual and institutional day to day realities. Boycotting only works until a certain point and strategies might be meandering and slow to implement: divestment is not a linear, frictionless journey. But as many of us have understood the elephant in the room is not there for us; it is time to find modes of action that can work at the scale of your affinity group/collective/institution. It can be as simple as replacing one tool at a time, establishing links and solidarities with likeminded organisations to share resources and expertise, departing from shared collective values to decide on the adoption of software, making those choices more legible for non experts.
We need to get out of this, together. There are plenty of modes of action that can be taken on at different scales and speeds. Let’s share them.”
https://constantvzw.org/site/There-s-an-elephant-in-the-room-episode-3.html
