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The Dark Forest Collective
Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading

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Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading

by Nadia Asparouhova, and Leïth Benkhedda

$10+

Why do some ideas spread like wildfire, while others resist being seen — despite their importance? A new book by Nadia Asparouhova explores the emerging phenomenon of antimemetics. Published by the Dark Forest Collective.

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Laura Winn
LOVE LIKE THUNDER, GRIEF LIKE RAIN

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LOVE LIKE THUNDER, GRIEF LIKE RAIN is a memoir and practices to move us through grief. The work is an offering that leads us back to love with stories, meditations, and mindfulness exercises. Pre-orders are open for the first 100 editions & include a free digital copy of the book. Orders ship by October 1, 2025.

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The Dark Forest Collective
The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet

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The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet

by Yancey Strickler, Peter Limberger, and 9 more

$10+

A book about how to survive on the internet. It’s about the cozy web, the dark web, the dark forest, the clear net, the dark net, and a new social world emerging around us. This is the Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet.

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EMPOWA
the Artists Way exercises - Notion templates

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Get detailed Notion templates for all the exercises in the Artist's Way book. ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪ Unlock your higher creativity with the self-guided 12 week program in the Artists Way written by Julia Cameron. Join artists like Doechii, Alicia Keys, Bella Hadid, and more in the creative transformation guided by these exercises.

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The Dark Forest Collective
The Post-Individual

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The Post-Individual

by Yancey Strickler, IY, and 1 more

Free+

An exploration of individuality after the internet The Post-Individual First Edition includes "The Post Individual" essay, an audio recording and video introduction by the author, and research notes behind the piece

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co—matter
New World Order 2025

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New World Order 2025

by Severin Matusek, Alice Smith, and 2 more

$5+

New World Order: The Return of Hard Power and Soft Beliefs is a 35-page research memo about what happens when power, infrastructure and ideology collide. A manual for anyone trying to make sense of the present, New World Order contains ideas, context and language to participate in shaping the world that emerges in front of our eyes.

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Nolvi News
The Artists' Books of Fred Escher

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Fred Escher made five artists’ books across two eras: austere B&W works in the 1970s and surreal, color-saturated books in the 2010s. Both are emotionally rich, often humorous, and centered on the doubled self. His books—quiet, strange, and complete—are widely available and the strongest expression of his vision.

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NOW
Get High on Your Own Supply!  A Notion Activity Workbook for Mindfulness Meditators

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Notion activity workbook. Track the practice of loving kindness meditation - cultivate more compassion, self love, purpose, presence and peace.....through the magic of "metta" meditation - and Notion! Includes a tiny book of big love (on Amazon, via a link in the Notion template - 100% free) Beta access to our new app (coming June 19)

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August Lamm
You Don't Need a Smartphone

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This 36-page risograph-printed pamphlet is a radical & practical guide to reclaiming your life from digital technology.

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jackieis.online
Fishin' For Average Caucasian Boyfriends ♡ Collector's Edition

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A semi-autobiographical Game Boy game about expectations, queerness, and the possibility of dreaming bigger.

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Wonder Books
Theatrics

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Theatrics

by Wonder, and Maya Martinez

$20

Maya Martinez's theatrical writings, in one limited edition full-length book.

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A Thousand Forests
Legal Structures for Creative Practices

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Legal Structures for Creative Practices

by A Thousand Forests, Enrique H, and 2 more

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"Legal Structures for Creative Practices" is an illustrated zine designed for creative entrepreneurs that unpacks the pros, cons, and nuances of various legal structures to help choose the one that will best suit their unique practice. View the digital zine at: AThousandForests.com

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Becoming
Exocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits (2025) by Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo

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Exocapitalism challenges the critical orthodoxy on how it understands and talks about capitalism today.

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Poor Zoe
neutra: a new typeface

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neutra: a new typeface

by Zoe Reifel

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neutra is a sans-serif typeface inspired by the aesthetics of retro-futurism, gen x soft club, and y2k. rooted in a geometric approach, its minimalist forms have a sleek, technical feel with a nod to space-age graphics.

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Seah Studio
GEOTYPE

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GEOTYPE

by Melisa Seah

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GEOTYPE is a font with angular shapes, sharp contrasts, and a bold and experimental style. A playful display typeface that's eye catching on every surface. It's the very first font created by Seah Studio, in partnership with the Letterform Archive.

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Shantell Martin
Shantell Sans

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Shantell Sans

by Shantell Martin

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Shantell Sans mixes variable axes for Weight, Italic, Informality, and Bounce to deliver a wide array of font styles, from friendly, readable, everyday typographic workhorses to striking, high-energy, experimental styles meant especially for animation. This is the story behind its inspiration and creation.

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Maddie Potocnik
surface treasure - issue four

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surface treasure - issue four

by Maddie Potocnik

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a small digital magazine filled with my favorite images & missed connections collected from newyork.craigslist.org in july 2025 ♡

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Arcangel Surfware
MY_PHOTO

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MY_PHOTO

by Cory Arcangel

$35.95

Cory Arcangel, MY_PHOTO, 2024-2025 is a virtual 3 1/2 inch floppy disk (downloadable as an ISO file system image) containing 36 cloudscape JPEGs snapped by Arcangel on his Sony FD Mavica MVC-FD75 Digital Still Camera from the terrace of his apartment in Stavanger, Norway⁠. Released by Arcangel Surfware (SRF-064).

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Ivano Salonia
WOR(L)DS

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WOR(L)DS

by Ivano Salonia, Lucas Guzman, and 11 more

$1+

The digital zine that almost wasn’t. A one-off publication that, in many ways, tells its own story—the energy, creative passion, and very real challenges that almost kept it from happening. WOR(L)DS ZINE

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Everyone Is A Girl
Ch. 2: FANDOM

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Ch. 2: FANDOM

by Everyone Is A Girl, jules, and 3 more

Free

FANDOM is a communal publication which features critical and experimental short-form responses to the theme of fandom from a variety of upcoming writers and artists.

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Rebecca Clark
Book of Hours: An Artist's Book for the Anthropocene

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BOOK of HOURS is a free 236-page PDF intended to be viewed in 2-page format on a handheld digital device. Taking the idea of the medieval prayer book into the virtual age, it provides light but also underscores our vast separation from the natural and spiritual worlds.

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Glass Mirror: a speculative research journal
Glass Mirror 001: What If?

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"What If?" is a working journal: a reader-reviewed, iterative publication written to evolve alongside conversation. Each chapter is curated around a "what if" prompt—what if WFH took place in Vision Pros? Curators of the working edition (this release) can vote on journal submissions, curate chapter content, and read with the Glass Mirror community.

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The "O" Piano
Poon Tang EP

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Poon Tang EP

by TheoPiano

Free

3-song EP of solo instrumental piano

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The "O" Piano
The Great Way Is Not Difficult For Those Who Have No Preference

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Triptych of free jazz duets for alto saxophone and piano / Lo-fi and beatific / PLUS 12.5 palindromes inspired by artists and music such as Agnostic Front, Davido, emo, Iron Maiden and more / Palindromes rendered in Shantell Sans, a new font by fellow Metalabeler Shantell Martin

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Creative Minds
✦ 2025 Art Calendar Collection ✦

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Celebrating the new year, I've designed minimal art calendars that feature master paintings and raw photos from the Bauhaus school. Ready for you to print.

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The "O" Piano
Billy Bird

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Billy Bird

by TheoPiano

Free

Timeless jazzy piano meets 50something dad beat making.

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Creative Minds
HAB

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HAB

by Bora

Free

We've shot this short film to raise awareness of the child labor issue in agriculture.

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MEMORY
Your Final Meditation FILM • Magic Rock + Digital Bundle

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Your Final Meditation FILM • Magic Rock + Digital Bundle

by Riel Roch-Decter, and Expanded Views

$12+

The transcendent new film, 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 (YFM), by Baltimore filmmaker Corey Hughes is now available in two exclusive editions: 𝗬𝗙𝗠 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗲 or as the ultimate physical artifact - the 𝗬𝗙𝗠 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸

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Inpatient Press
Inpatient Press Newsbox Box Set

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Inpatient Press Newsbox Box Set

by Mitch Anzuoni, and Henry obelisk

$75

Inpatient Press, founded in 2013, is a publisher of transcendental and transgressive works of poetry, fiction, art, video games, and ephemera. This is a limited edition release collecting some of the press' most venerable works in a portable newsbox modeled after the actual boxes placed around New York City.

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Hard Art
Open letter to all people of conscience in response to the acquittal of the HSBC 9

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Nine women, from graduates to grandmothers, were found not guilty for taking nonviolent direct action with Extinction Rebellion at the headquarters of one of the world’s biggest investors in fossil fuels, HSBC. [Main image: Sarah Cresswell]

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EARTHLINGS.

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EARTHLINGS.

by Lavisha Jain

Free

It all started when "THE EARTHLINGS" occupied the green ball, full of diversity, gigantic land, unlimited opportunities. Then they started learning, unlearning, relearning their environment, creating a livable place. They evolved from apes to the Sapiens. But this evolution came at a cost of the blue-green ball of life - THE EARTH.

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The Ideaspace by Yancey Strickler
Bentoism

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Bentoism

by Yancey Strickler, and Laurel Schwulst

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A wider view of our self-interest. Now Me, Future Me. Now Us, Future Us. A model for a deeper form of living. BEyond Near Term Orientation: Bentoism.

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Other Internet
Other Internet 2018–2024

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Other Internet 2018–2024

by Toby Shorin, Laura Lotti, and 2 more

$40

The definitive Other Internet anthology collects our essays and reports in print for the first time, traces crypto-cultural history in 6 new pieces, and surfaces new material from the OI archives. Ships September 2025. Pre-order now.

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The Ideaspace by Yancey Strickler
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

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A trilogy of essays published from 2019 through 2021 that explores why I and others feel less comfortable showing our true selves online. Reissued here with the original piece, two follow-up essays, and a podcast conversation with The Stoa exploring the concept.

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Bimbo Rhetoric
Forever Mediated: Feminist Erotic Texts and the Seduction Economy (PDF)

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Written by Ester Freider ISBN: 979-8-9923515-1-4 Publisher: Bimbo Rhetoric Publishing House Publication Date: May 5, 2025 Pages: 63 pages Language: English

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AIxDESIGN
[Dis]enchantment: A zine about Esoteric AI by AIxDESIGN & internet teapot (Slow AI Series)

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Why do we approach AI chatbots as modern-day oracles? This issue of the Slow AI Series “[Dis]enchantment: A zine about Esoteric AI” summons 54 pages of magic, divination, folklore, and other arcane ways of knowing to disenchant then re-enchant our relationship with algorithmic systems.

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Sucking Salt
Take Care

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Take Care

by Shani Strand

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Take Care addresses Caribbean architecture + aesthetics via social ecologies. The zine features writing by Shani Strand, Rianna Jade Parker, Luis Rivera Jiménez, Kearra Amaya Gopee and Shameekia Shantel Johnson, alongside a photo essay by Zenobia. Designed by Neta Bomani @ Sojourners for Justice Press, 2024

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Boy Vienna
11:11 Cigarette Incense

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11:11 Cigarette Incense

by Zeopatra, and Jazsalyn

$35

Not for smoking. This box contains 18 incense sticks inspired by traditional cigarettes. A fragrant and interactive fashion accessory that looks as good in your bag or on your coffee table.

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Do Not Research
DJ Meisner: Collected Drawings & Paintings

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DJ Meisner (b. 1997) is a visual artist based in San Francisco, California. This volume features works created between 2020 - 2024. 48 pages, 8 x 10”.

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NOW
Rules for Rockstars. (Inner Space Collection)

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10 cheeky, irreverent rules for authors, artists and entrepreneurs.

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Baukunst
Mycelium As Mode Report - Baukunst Study Group 001

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In our first Study Group, Mycelium as Mode, we set out to inquire about the vast world of mushrooms, exploring the terrain from multiple vantage points — from wellness and investment in psychedelics — to materiality and even, mycelium as a metaphor for building.

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Elysian Collective
CITY-STATE

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CITY-STATE

by Elle Griffin, Bryce Tolpen, and 6 more

Free+

Seven writers explore the future of autonomous governance.

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Department of Transformation
Workshop of Workshops

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Workshop of Workshops

by Andrew Harrison

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"Workshop of Workshops" by P. Krishnamurthy, explores various organizational structures—studio, gallery, school, therapy, and temple—analyzing their advantages and disadvantages in fostering creativity, collaboration, and individual development. PK proposes a "new workshop" model that to merge the best aspects of these formats.

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Metalabel squad
Nine Creative Meditations

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Nine Creative Meditations

by Yancey Strickler, IY, and 1 more

Free

A series of reflections from my (Yancey's) creative experiences expressed as a written essay (the A-side) and video essay (the B-side)

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Underground Art And Design
Alt-Alterity: Art and Interviews from the Immersive Virtual Exhibition

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"Alt-Alterity" envisions a world where the notion of “alterity” dissolves, making way for new affinities. In response to an era marked by crisis, this curatorial project serves as an artistic provocation, navigating you through speculative realities, rebellious technologies, and fluid identities shaped by the ideas and works of 31 artists.

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Underground Art And Design
Worlds Unfolding: Ideas and Prompts for Virtual World-Making

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Worlds Unfolding is a guide and inspiration hub for virtual world-making, offering curated prompts, community-contributed projects, and ideas that blend storytelling, design, and imagination. It explores how virtual spaces can foster connection, creativity, and care while critically examining their ties to the dominant paradigm.

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Avi Solomon
Book of Creativity: Audio

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Book of Creativity: Audio

by Avi Solomon

Free

Audio version of my English translation of Sefer Yesira, an ancient Hebrew mystical text that first promulgated the concept of combinatorial creativity. Important not just for having a creative effect on major historical figures, but also for a seminal influence germinating the seeds of modern logic and computing into the looming Golem of AI today.

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The Creative Independent
On Making a Living as an Artist (Digital Edition)

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In 2018, The Creative Independent published our first zine, featuring the emotional and practical wisdom of Philip Glass, Yumna Al-Arashi, Taja Cheek, and others on how to make a living as an artist. This is a digital edition of that work.