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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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Unwritten is a collection of stories and essays for those rewriting the rules of work and life, proving there are infinite ways to matter.
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We’ve been told patriarchy is inevitable. It’s not. In redefining power, this book imagines the next world and invites you to help build it. Pre-order for Spring 2026
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On the Creative Life: Conversations Toward a New Creative Era
by Yancey Strickler, and Joshua Citarella
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Artist Joshua Citarella and writer Yancey Strickler spoke weekly about their creative practices for the "New Creative Era" podcast. This book edits those discussions into a collection offering a new perspective on the creative life. Available July 1.
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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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"A lightly researched field guide for thinking about and/or making creative things" These are observations from real working life, a collective twenty years of our work as professionals in a wide range of fields — architecture, advertising, design, innovation strategy, journalism, and software engineering.
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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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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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The Artist Series is an investigation into the minds of artists and musicians playing with artificial intelligence and new musical instruments.
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Exocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits (2025) by Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo
by Becoming Press, and 1 more
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Exocapitalism challenges the critical orthodoxy on how it understands and talks about capitalism today.
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Alta is a research-based exploration of social change in Los Angeles in the early twenty-first century.
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Focuses on gender norms and fluidity and how one's gender identity can impact fashion and one's artistic approach.
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Cosmic Sans Software is the first zine from the Institute of Machine Unlearning. Born from a workshop, it brings together collages made collectively as playful, critical detours into how AI is pictured and imagined and how we see, feel, and unlearn with machines.
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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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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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Forever Mediated: Feminist Erotic Texts and the Seduction Economy (PDF)
by Bimbo Rhetoric, and Ester Freider
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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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A century-old myth. Aliens, war and magic. What do they reveal about our modern era of technology and media? The War of the Worlds Did Not Take Place is a 24-page tabloid newspaper created by Nick Susi with visual objects by Domingo Beta. Debuted at FWB FEST25, with an original score by VÉRITÉ.
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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.
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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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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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A 100-day online drawing community program. Participants receive a Drawing Club Kit by mail and share their daily drawings in a private Discord channel. The drawings will be archived on its online archive birdcall.online/drawingclub.
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A series exploring the poetic tension between idealism and surrender in bodies moving to unseen celestial, socio-political, and technological forces. ••• Proceeds from this release will support research and development of an immersive prototype of the same name, featuring spatial sound, visuals, performance, and audience interactivity.
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CMYK – 52 Typoems :: 4 typefaces | 4 letters | 4 sections by Michael Betancourt
by Michael Betancourt
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CMYK is an asemic poetry book published by Swedish press Timglaset. It was their blackest book ever and simultaneously one of their most colorful. Now out of print, it was originally published in an edition of 99 copies, and was a winner in The Society of Typographic Arts 45th STA100 in 2024
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Will we still be asking people to like and subscribe in 10 years? "After The Creator Economy" explores constructive alternatives for the ways we produce, distribute, and monetize creative work online. Co-edited by Austin Robey (Metalabel) and Severin Matusek (co—matter), this release preserves and digitally reissues the zine.
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A beautifully designed digital, seasonal journal for sensitive souls, busy minds, and anyone craving a deeper connection to life's natural rhythms. Slow down and find presence with guided reflection, embodied rituals, and creative practices. Give yourself permission to gently align with the ebb and flow of energy while nurturing your soul.
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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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This 36-page risograph-printed pamphlet is a radical & practical guide to reclaiming your life from digital technology.
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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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a small digital magazine filled with my favorite images & missed connections collected from newyork.craigslist.org in july 2025 ♡
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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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Alt-Alterity: Art and Interviews from the Immersive Virtual Exhibition
by Underground Art And Design
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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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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 original essay, ideas, and research that inspired Metalabel, including: — Unpublished research and thinking from May 2021 — The initial manifesto, first published in February 2022 — Further research, first published in October 2022 Preserved and collectible as a new media archive.
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Bad Kingdom is a poetic visual novel that follows three characters: Robin in Taipei, Swan in Tokyo, and a mysterious Crow, as they reflect on the loss of their beloved online multiplayer game Fly Like a Bird. The piece is presented both as an interactive Ren’Py visual story and as a comic in PDF format.
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a small digital magazine filled with my favorite images & missed connections collected from newyork.craigslist.org in june 2025 ♡
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Where are we now as creative people? Where are we going? What do we vision for the future? 75 creative people anonymously share the dreams, concerns, and joys grounding their creative thinking for the year ahead.
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FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT presents the JavaScript-based, generative art collection of the same name by artist Maya Man.
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The Emergency Was Curiosity is a book report gone wild; an exhibition and event series; a pandemic diary; an ongoing response to Jenny Odell’s book How to Do Nothing. The project invites you to cultivate your attention, to explore your own weird, category-resistant projects, and to treat your curiosity as a matter of urgency—an emergency, even.