Introducing Zines from ALoF: This Machine Has No Gnosis
Last Updated: 2026-06-09 00:00:00 -0500
With the release of a long-promised essay titled This Machine Has No Gnosis, Arcana Labs of Fredericton is now introducing a new series of mini projects which will be made available to you, dear reader, on our Zines Page as each becomes available. Manufactured in our sunny Fredericton office from recycled materials, real human ideas, and occasionally hand-rendered artwork, the zines cover a broad array of non-fiction and fiction topics. Zines will be available as physical releases shipped directly to you, or in PDF format, and depending on the issue may even be licensed for you to share (as this one is).
Today’s release This Machine Has No Gnosis, is the first entry in a series I like to call the “Technology Survival Manual” series. The essay covers the salient details about Large Language Models and other Generative AI systems and what they should never be trusted with, along with what they might maybe one day be useful for, if anyone ever designed and implemented one in an ethically and environmentally sound way.
Zine releases happen as the individual issue becomes “complete” in terms of its writing, art direction, and print layout. For a context-free preview of what else is in the hopper, check out the below.
