ME Luka, Aline Zara, and Caroline Klimek

Imaginations Journal: Vol. 17, No. 1, 7-17 (2026)

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Abstract:  In this introduction, we share the process of developing this double special issue for Imaginations: from the call for papers to the articles we present in this first special issue volume, and beyond. When we proposed this special issue in 2024, we began by thinking about how to live and work with the rapidly-changing analyses of artificial intelligence softwares, moral panics, and resistances to and takeups of the already-voracious consumption of existing oppressive datasets and social relations. Building on recent work about rebuilding, revisualizing, repairing, or refusing inevitable pathways for AI ubiquity, we were certain we could find other ways of thinking. Drawing from deep scholarly engagement with issues of ethical database scraping and intellectual property violations, environmental impacts, and workflow interferences and augmentations, we asked contributors: What do we/they/you want to happen next? Where do we want to be next year, or five years from now? What are the next 25 years going to look like? The articles we offer in this special issue are mapping and pushing boundaries around the ways we encounter, engage with, and consider the possibilities for AI. This introduction connects these nine articles and how they rethink the world through Indigenous sovereignty, Ubuntu intelligence, speculative methods in policy and practice; and embedded in visual culture sectors through folklore, innovation, labour, archives, and the environment.

 

Lauren Knight and Aline Rossi Zara

Seismograf: Vol. 34 (2026)

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Abstract:  In this article, we offer four listening modalities emerging from the process of making, listening, and launching BEEP zine: a multimedia zine that audibly maps the urban soundscapes of Toronto, Canada, through field recordings, collage, and manifesto (beepzine.com). Extending histories of listening prompts and BEEP zine’s four editions (Bus, Park, Bar, and Pool), arriving, attuning, assembling, and adapting are invitations to new forms of sonic citizenship. In exploring each modality, we offer reflections grounded in each edition of BEEP zine and its accompanying manifesto, soundscapes, and collages, as well as new listening prompts to deepen listeners’ engagement with the sonic environments they occupy. By activating these listening modes, BEEP zine pays attention to and participates with human and non-human members of the city: technologies, species, materialities, and ecologies. Negotiating concerns about urban noise pollution and the “livability of cities” (Droumeva, Copeland and Ashleigh, 2022), the four disruptive and alternative listening modes offered by BEEP zine are invitations to generating relational sonic futures. 

 

Kate Maddalena, Aline Zara, and Dan Guadagnolo

Feminist Pedagogy: Vol. 6: Iss. 3, Article 6 (2025) 

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Abstract:  This Original Teaching Activity describes two modules that enact feminist pedagogy to teach AI refusal, a set of lectures and associated activities which we developed for first-year courses during the 2023-2024 academic year. These activities invite students to refuse AI while also understanding its function and deployment. They explore the consolidations of power which make generative AI technologies both possible and harmful. Instead of presuming the inevitability of AI to replace working and learning or change the world, these activities offer students a materialist framework to refuse the hype, grounding their understanding of generative AI in its techno-political origins and actual capabilities.