The first title released by Aora is SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide by acclaimed multimedia artist Cannupa Hanka Luger. Part graphic novel, part art book, SURVIVA offers readers a view beneath, beyond, and between the lines of Luger’s ever-expanding artistic universe. In this ecstatically hybrid work, Luger transforms a 1970s military survival guide through poetic redaction, speculative fiction, and iterative line drawing—deftly surfacing and disrupting the colonial subconscious that haunts this vexed source text. An epic and timely meditation on planetary life in the midst of transformation, SURVIVA boldly presents an earth-based, demilitarized futuredream that foregrounds Indigenous knowledge as critical to humanity’s survival.

The second title to be released by Aora is Selah: A Báyò Akómoláfé Reader, a poetically arranged selection of short-form writings by posthumanist polymath and “trans-public” intellectual, Báyò Akómoláfé. A tightly curated composition of aphorisms, anti-epiphanies, prose poems, and philosophical fragments, Selah invites readers into the thicket of Akómoláfé’s thought, weaving together threads of his most critically creative concepts—such as ontofugitivity, ecocognitive assemblage theory, parapolitics, and postactivism. Taking its title from an enigmatic For those already swimming in the depths of Akómoláfé’s language, as well as those encountering his dynamic body of work for the first time, Selah offers an accessible and ecstatic entry into a visionary thinker’s signature thought and poetics.

Wherever You Are: Essays from East to West gathers the meditations of a writer caught between worlds—Palestinian by blood, American by circumstance, and by temperament a stranger to easy belonging. In this third release from Aora, Yahia Lababidi moves between high and low, sacred and mundane, resisting the comfort of choosing. He writes of Oscar Wilde and belly dancers, of Rumi and Ramadan television, of raising pigeons on a Florida balcony while the world burns in Gaza—composing a spiritual autobiography disguised as cultural criticism, in which attention becomes a kind of devotion and prayer. Through it all runs a single question: how to remain fully alive and human in a wounded world?