In solidarity with Autistici/Inventati

We are reposting here the statement from our comrades at Austistici/inventati—who host our blog—as a gesture of support and solidarity in the defense of free communication, self-organization, and digital self-defense.

We are a free, collective and self-organize library, our books are tools to free minds and organize collective bodies. Against any criminalization.

If you are in solidarity and/or host at any Autistici tool, follow recomendations at their blog (show solidarity, save archive/back ups of your info)

from the blog of Autistici:

DICHIARAZIONE DEL COLLETTIVO A/I SULLE SANZIONI DISPOSTE DAL GOVERNO USA NEI SUOI CONFRONTI – A STATEMENT BY A/I COLLECTIVE ABOUT US SANCTIONS

[ENGLISH VERSION BELOW]

Oggi abbiamo appreso che il governo degli Stati Uniti ha deciso di inserire un piccolo collettivo di volontari e attivisti digitali italiani nell’elenco delle organizzazioni terroristiche mondiali meritevoli di sanzioni, come si può leggere nelle dichiarazioni del Dipartimento del Tesoro, in quelle del Dipartimento di Stato e nel relativo Ordine Esecutivo emesso.

Noi respingiamo al mittente tutte le accuse presentate in tali dichiarazioni e allo stesso tempo riaffermiamo con forza il nostro impegno nel fornire una piattaforma di strumenti di auto-difesa digitale per permettere ad attivist*, singole persone, gruppi e associazioni di comunicare liberamente. 

Non ci fermeremo e continueremo a fare quello che abbiamo sempre fatto, opponendoci in ogni modo alle accuse false costruite da un’amministrazione politicamente disperata che ha il solo scopo di distrarre le persone e i media dalla propria violenza e dal proprio desiderio di guerra. 

L’antifascismo e l’anticapitalismo non sono terrorismo. Protestare non è terrorismo. E tutti hanno il diritto di prendere parola e di lottare per tutta l’umanità. 

Collettivo Autistici / Inventati — “Socializzare saperi senza fondare poteri”

Stay human

[ENGLISH VERSION]

Today we were made aware that the US Government has targeted a small, volunteer-run, technology collective from Italy with disproportionate sanctions as anyone can read in the Treasury Department Statement, the State Department Statement and the related Executive Order.

We deny all allegations included in the statements, while we strongly affirm our dedication to providing a platform of tools for digital self-defense, addressing the need of free communication for activists and other individuals, groups and associations.

We will not back down, we will keep doing what we have been doing all these years and we will do whatever is in our possibility to counter the false allegations made by a politically desperate administration with the sole intention of swaying people and media attention away from their own violence and warmongering. 

Antifascism and anticapitalism are not terrorism. Protesting is not terrorism. And everyone has the right to speak out and to struggle for humanity

Collettivo Autistici / Inventati — “Socializzare saperi senza fondare poteri”

Stay human

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Sommer Pausa…

Dear All,
We’re taking a summer break and suspending our activities at Casino from 1st August. It’s been an intense year, and our regular presence at Casino has allowed us to get to know many of you, start discussion groups, participate in other activities, and continue building our network.

Our internal circumstances do not currently allow us to continue offering in-person hours at Casino. But the library is there for you to use. Please don’t hesitate to contact us to request titles or arrange a visit to either the library or the poster archive.

Let’s not stop imagining possible futures. Books are weapons loaded with the future. Let’s use them. (And fuck AI)

With fraternal warmth and solidarity,
Kollektivbibliothek

Querides todes
Nos tomamos un descanso veraniego y paramos nuestra presencia en Casino desde el primero de Agosto. Ha sido un año intenso, y la regularidad en Casino nos ha permitido conoceros a muches, abrir grupos de debate, participar en otras actividades y seguir haciendo red.

Nuestras circunstancias internas no nos permiten por el momento seguir sosteniendo esta presencialidad. Pero la biblioteca está ahí para ser usada. No dudeis en contactar para solicitar títulos o proponer una visita tanto a la biblioteca como al archivo de carteles.

No dejemos de imaginar futuros posibles. Los libros son armas cargadas de futuro. Usémoslos.

Un abrazo fraterno y solidario
Kollektivbibliothek

Hallo zusammen,
wir machen Sommerpause und stellen unsere Aktivitäten im Casino vorübergehend ein. Es war ein intensives Jahr, und dank unserer regelmäßigen Präsenz im Casino konnten wir viele von euch kennenlernen, Diskussionsrunden ins Leben rufen, an anderen Aktivitäten teilnehmen und unser Netzwerk weiter ausbauen.

Aufgrund unserer derzeitigen internen Umstände können wir keine Präsenzdienste mehr anbieten. Die Bibliothek steht euch jedoch weiterhin zur Verfügung. Zögert bitte nicht, uns zu kontaktieren, um Titel anzufordern oder einen Besuch in der Bibliothek oder im Plakatarchiv zu vereinbaren.

Lasst uns nicht aufhören, uns mögliche Zukünfte vorzustellen. Bücher sind Waffen, geladen mit der Zukunft. Lasst sie uns nutzen.

Mit brüderlicher Herzlichkeit und Solidarität,
Kollektivbibliothek

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Critical tech Book Club summer break

Dear readers and critical thinkers, we, the critical tech book club, are taking a summer break 🙂

We finished the Mood Machine book and after several intense and rich discussions and exchanges we have a long list of wishes to read waiting for us. Before that, we will take a break and rethink the schedule of the meetings (for a better time frame for everyone)

We will announce it here and/or casino channel

Stay tune.

Here some racommendations for the summer that will be our next readings of the club:

  1. Empire of AI – Karen Hao (2025) – book that investigates the rise of OpenAI, drawing parallels between the company’s resource-intensive, empire-like growth and historical empires. Well researched and fun to read, but it could be more story telling and less discussion oriented.
  2. The AI con 2025 – argues that „AI“ is a misleading marketing term used by tech companies to obscure automation, justify data exploitation, and consolidate power, rather than a sign of true machine intelligence. Controversial take; could be fun to discuss.
  3. The Sirens‘ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource 2025 – offers an engaging analysis of a current challenge: we’re drowning in an ocean of content designed to capture fragments of our consciousness, and we barely notice the tide pulling us under. Critics say it’s a good read based on observation but lacking scientific analysis.
  4. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – Max Tegmark 2017 – explores the future impact of AI, defining three stages of life: Life 1.0 (biological), Life 2.0 (cultural/human), and Life 3.0 (technological, able to design its own hardware and software). Thought-provoking. It is a highly ambitious book that explores the future of AI and its potential to shift humanity into a new evolutionary stage. Can be overly optimistic but interesting for a discussion group.
  5. Super intelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies 2014 – explores the potential risks and opportunities of artificial superintelligence (ASI) surpassing human intellect, arguing that such an entity could pose an existential threat if its goals aren’t aligned with human values, and proposing strategies for ensuring a beneficial outcome, making it a foundational text in AI safety and existential risk discussions. Very popular among Silicon Valley members now leading major AI companies.

They will be soon available at our collection of your kollektivbibliothek!

Have a nice summer break! mor soon.

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A year in Casino!

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Wir feiern unser einjähriges Jubiläum im Casino!

This month marks our first anniversary at Casino.
A year ago, we embarked on this journey of collaboration with this space, which has given us an open window through which to introduce ourselves and get to know you, where we can chat about the project, books, solidarity and micro-revolutions, and where we can put forward ideas, ask questions and simply be together. Thank you, Casino, for providing the space for this.
Over this time, we have welcomed visitors, received book donations and proposals, launched two reading and discussion groups, hosted book presentations, organised cataloging workshops, bought new titles and lent out around a hundred and fifty books.
We want there to be many more, for people to read more, to talk more about books, to expand the organisation and mutual support, to free ourselves a little from techno-feudalism, to also make good use of free networks, to meet in person whilst health permits, and to celebrate. We’re still here, every Thursday, for all of this, and for whatever else we can imagine. Thank you for being part of it, and if you’re not yet, come and meet us.

And we have a new stamp 🙂

Este mes cumplimos un año en Casino.
Hace un año, iniciamos esta andadura de colaboración con este espacio que nos permite tener una ventana abierta por la que darnos a conocer, y conoceros, donde charlar del proyecto, de libros, de solidaridad, de microrevoluciones y donde proponer ideas, donde hacernos preguntas, donde estar juntes. Gracias Casino por proporcionar el espacio para ello.
En este tiempo hemos recibido visitas, donaciones de libros, propuestas, hemos arrancado dos grupos de lectura y debate, organizado talleres de catalogación y archivo, presentado libros, adquirido nuevos ejemplares y prestado cerca de un centenar y medio de ellos.
Queremos que sean muchos más, que se lea más, que se hable mas de libros, extender la organización y el apoyo mutuo, liberarnos un poco del tecnofeudalismo, liberar también el buen uso de las redes libres, juntarnos presencialmente mientras la salud lo permita, y celebrar. Seguimos aqui, cada jueves, para todo ello, y para lo que seamos capaces de imaginar. Gracias por ser parte, y si aun no lo eres, ven a conocernos.

Ah, y tenemos nuevo sello 🙂

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Pensar con Bifo: club de lectura y debate

El 3 de diciembre de 2025 arrancamos este grupo a partir de 3 textos de Bifo, en los que, tres sesiones después, hemos decidido quedarnos y profundizar.

Puedes leer los textos aquí (en el post anterior también encontraras versión maquetada para imprimir)

Aún sin regularidad fija, la idea es juntarnos dos veces al mes. Una vez será entre semana y la otra en fin de semana. En principio, segundo miercoles (de tarde) y último domingo de mes (de tarde o de mañana segun convenga). Los miercoles serán itinerantes y los domingos serán en Offline.

Si quieres sumarte o tienes preguntas o sugerencias, puedes escribirnos al correo del kollektivbibliothek

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Pensar con Bifo: catalogación colectiva y debate

Miercoles 3 de diciembre, 17,45-21,30h en Casino, Sonnealle 100.

A partir de una sesión de catalogación colectiva de los fondos de la kollektivbibliothek que tuvo lugar el pasado 22 de octubre, las allí presentes nos propusimos iniciar una serie de sesiones para, por un lado, continuar con la tarea de inventariar colectivamente los libros en español, y por otro abrir un espacio de ideas, propuestas y debates para pensar nuestro presente a partir de textos que nos vayamos proponiendo. La idea inicial es arrancar con una serie de artículos del filósofo y activista Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi.

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Critical Tech book club

Inviting folks who want to know more about the tech industry’s oppressive tactics that fuel oppression and capitalist exploitation, amongst other problems. We meet to discuss ideas that inspire us and teach us about the industry that is at the front line of imperial domination. This is not an academic group, hence we will not delve too deep into technical topics. It is aimed to create a space of collective learning. We can discuss books, papers, videos, articles and podcasts.

Every Thursday at Casino (Sonnenalle 100) from 15 to 17h

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Collection Cataloguing day with Kollektivbibliothek/Jornada de catalogación colectiva and poster making.

We are happy to announce a series of workshops based on self education, critical thinking and community building. We will work with open source sofware inventaire and ideas and proposals that we bring! Come and join!. Please read further, number of paticipants limited in order to make the session possible (more sessions will follow 🙂


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Kollektivbibliothek at Casino: Read, meet, slow down and don’t consume for Gaza.

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Kollektivbibliothek will return to the Casino every Thursday from the middle of September, starting the 18th.

Thursdays are the chosen day for a Global strike for Gaza , so we want to reopen this space also to join this call. Every Thursday we will be in Casino, where you can come to read, rest, chat, organise with us and not consume, not produce, not bank, to stop everything in the face of genocide.

Kollektivbibliothek is a living library with an intention to serve as a collective tool for the political imagination. Come meet us, follow our activities here at our blog or at Casino Telegram channel.

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A zines cataloging action on sickness/disability

Wednesday 23th Juli, 13-17h, at Casino, Sonnenalle 100

Sickness Affinity Group have been collecting zines on the topic since 2021, and now want to make the collection available with kollektivbibliotek and Casino (according to their main interest on Mutual Aid and collective healthcare).

Join us for a collaborative session together with members of SAG and kollektivbibliothek to organise and catalogue the collection, which will be held at Casino, so will be accesible there during the kollektivbibliothek sessions in the future. The catalog will be accesible on our Inventare page

If you are invested on cataloging with us, or finding out more about sickness affinity group, Kollektivbibliothek and/or Casino, just come by on Wednesday 23th from 13 to 17h.

We care about each other, so please come tested, and don’t come if you have symptoms or recent contact with someone with covid. We’ll have a small number of Rapid tests available. This is a free activity, but would appreciate if you send us an email if you plan to participate to kollektivbibliothek[at]so36.net

More access info is available on the Casino website

Bring your laptop if you have one.

Be Welcome
Kollektivbibliothek&plakatearchiv

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