Zines
The zines collected below are about community, imagination, and grassroots empowerment. They each express critique of commercial big tech, each in different ways, from political analysis and constructive alternatives to creative speculation and play. A zine is a self-published, non-commercial (or cost-recovery-only) booklet that can be about pretty much anything. They’re made with feeling, not polish, so zines are scrappy and a bit chaotic. They are, however, still creative works with moral rights. Please note and adhere to the licensing information on each zine before copying. You may be able to order a physical copy from their creators.
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Ghosts in the Cloud
Jen Liu and Sheila Tahir explore a southern gothic approach to understanding AI infrastructure, where the ghosts of extractive economies past are still present in the building of hyperscalers of today. Based on a trip to the hyperscaler construction site…
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Joy as Resistance
The result of a workshop held as part of ILTA’s EdTech 2026. The artwork collected in this zine represents a diversity of educator perspectives on AI in education at the present moment.
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Flash Fic Friday, Vol. 2
A collection of Shern Tee’s short fiction speculating on the nature of an AI-infused future, originally posted on LinkedIn for #FlashFicFriday.
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resources for Radical Infrastructures
This booklet, compiled by Colm O’Neill, gathers notes and resources from a number of workshops on the subject of exposure to Permacomputing principles and their potential for generation of oppositional knowledge.
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Creative Communities of Resistance
A creative collaboration between AI-critical university educators around the world. The poems, photographs, illustrations and words each express different forms of resistance to AI in education – open protest, creative reimagining, measured diplomacy, furious defiance, joyous engagement in material work.
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Generative AI Explainer
Professor Lupton is writing a book on critical perspectives on generative AI, and to help clarify the technical aspects, she put together this list of terms that are commonly used in discussions of these latest AI systems, with plain English…
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