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Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies
Revue d’études interculturelles de l’image

Volume 17, Number 1, 2026 (Re)Imagining AI Interventions /// Intervening (into) AI Imaginaries Issue #1 Guest-edited by Mary Elizabeth Luka, Aline Zara and Caroline Klimek

In the first part of this double special issue, (Re)Imagining AI Interventions///Intervening (into) AI Imaginaries, authors help map and push boundaries around the ways we encounter, engage with, and consider the possibilities for AI. They rethink the world through the lenses of Indigenous sovereignty, Ubuntu Intelligence, and speculative methods in policy and practice, among other approaches. They also investigate and are embedded in visual culture through folklore, innovation, labour, archives, and the environment.

Table of contents (10 articles)

Introduction

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    Introducing (Re)Imagining AI Interventions /// Intervening (into) AI Imaginaries

Articles

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    Future Imaginaries of Indigenous AI
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    Manifesting Plural Futures: Resisting AI's Colonising Impulses Through Counter-Imaginaries
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    Radical Softness as a Tool to Dismantle and Rebuild our Human-AI Future
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    The Consultation Machine: Experiments in AI Futures, Literacies and Public Participation
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    Automated Myth and the Postsocialist Digital State: The Imperial Trick of the Kratt AI Initiative in Estonia
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    Stable Diffusion of Innovation: Reimagining the Controversial Adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Creative Industries
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    GenAI and Precarity in Canadian Software Development: A Transfeminist Intersectional Analysis of Marginalized Workers’ Experiences
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    All That It Keeps Hidden: Rodell Warner, Archival Augmentations, and (Mis)Handling the Past
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    The Act of Seeing with Mechanical Eyes

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