Many of the materials from our ecological holdings offer examples of organised attempts to confront ecological crisis through insurgent, ground-level direct-action. In this spirit, we invite you to join us in this practical session with Manuela Zechner, who will share key takes from her new book, The Plot is on Fire: Care Struggles after Progress, Plantation and Patriarchy (Pluto 2026) and its chapters on tech and agrarian extractivism, as well as from the work of the Common Ecologies School on agrarian extractivism and building agroecological counterpower.

We’ll be looking towards toxic tech extractivism and the new digital and data frontiers that capitalism is pushing, and map some of the forms of resistance we see or imagine springing up around us. How might we resist data centres, microchip factories, toxic tech assembly lines, and mines for rare earths? And how do struggles around water and land intersect with struggles against toxic algorithmic and data harvesting regimes? Bring what you know, along with what you want to learn about these and other contemporary ecological struggles, and we’ll take time to map it together and orient it toward a shared horizon.