AI Aura Zines – How Will These Zines Age?
- AI Aura was selected for the Making & Doing program at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), where we will bring questions from both of our zines into conversation in the interactive presentation Auraless Futures: Can the Brazilian Anthropophagic Movement Give Birth to a Hungry Aura?
- Our zines collect reflections, provocations, and small thought experiments from across AI Aura spaces. They are snapshots of a weird transformation time, and we are curious to see how they age 😉
Zine II: Auraless, September 2026
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In our second AI Aura zine, we ask:
- Where are the ears?
- Can auras climb data walls?
- Is history safe?
- What aura does epistemic extractivism produce?
- What comes after Auraless futures?
The zine closes with a speculative appendix, “AGI as Composite Field: From Human Seed to Meta-Intelligence,” explicitly presented as a thought experiment rather than a technical claim about current GenAI architectures.
Eliott, Fernanda, Sarah Purcell, and Shanshan Rodriguez. 2026. Auraless: AI Aura Zine II. AI Aura. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22735937
Zine I – GenAI: First Impressions, spring 2026
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- This Zine brings together reflections and provocations: its short thought experiments ask what is happening around us and how GenAI systems are changing our world.
- Eliott, Fernanda, Sarah Purcell, and Shanshan Rodriguez. 2026. AI Aura Zine I. AI Aura. https://zenodo.org/records/22740027