Ambient revolts are upheavals in our biopolitical ecosystem. These upheavals occur often unnoticed in the background of our everyday environment in an almost automated manner – rather than being formed by conflicts and democratic processes. Coming to terms with this predicament means to explore post-human and post-colonial forms of agency. The Berliner Gazette annual project 2018 embarks upon a series of inquires into this issue. Its first event, the Ambient Revolts panel at transmediale 2018, thus sets out to explore the hidden links between the mass movement of migrants and new, algorithmic states of exception, focusing on the following questions: What does political agency mean today? What new possibilities emerge for collective action? Is it still possible to revolt?
