by Web3Privacy Now, Denis "Jaromil" Roio, and 2 more
Collector #116
Bringing together leading thinkers across technology, philosophy, and law, this collection examines how human agency, democracy, and freedom can flourish in the algorithmic age.
by Ruby Bailey, Open Secret, and 2 more
Collector #67
Here is a re:re:reality ~ This is the film - ENDLESSITY. Set in no-place 2 empty_world_empty_ai_fantasy_world of L00bi’s pixelated dreams. Thisss one is heaven. This one is ethereality limbo dissolve. L00bi’s aching emptiness is no longer scattered - she knows what she wants(!) How to become nothing |-|3|_|>, my friend, let me go |-|0//\3.
by Yancey Strickler
Collector #224
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.
by sharon zheng
Collector #28
Inspired by the idea that the word "alphabet" looks like it starts with the letters "AI", this print-at-home 24-page zine was created using Stable Diffusion and its understanding of the English alphabet as hand gestures.
by IS NOT MUSIC., Alec Hanley Bemis, and 3 more
Collector #83
Is Not Music is a multi-platform project that creates, contextualizes, explores and archives work from artists. We work in physical & digital formats while making sure to privilege the former (IRL experience) over the latter (AI slop, social media & other algorithmic-driven popularity contests).
by Nadia Piet, and internet teapot
Collector #119
What if AI didn’t run on Silicon Valley logic? Making Sense of Slow AI, compiles 40 pages of eclectic stories on Small, Esoteric, and Ancestral AI – inviting you to think small, make it magical, and plan for the past.
by Nadia Piet, Gustavo Nogueira de Menezes, and 1 more
Collector #81
How can ancient wisdom shape the future of AI? In the zine Pasts, Presents, Futures: A Zine About Ancestral AI, we take a step back to reflect and reimagine. What if we used lessons from the past seven generations to create AI that helps us build a world worthy of the next seven?
by Nadia Piet, and internet teapot
Collector #94
Bigger isn’t always better. What could we make with AI if scale wasn’t an objective? The 38-page zine “AI for Ants: A zine about Small AI” draws inspiration from the degrowth movement, climate justice, and low-tech to re-imagine AI that is locally-rooted and more attuned to our natural world.
by Pierce Day
Collector #233
A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man is a dizzying descent into digital madness, where one man's screen addiction and artistic ambitions collide in a genre-bending exploration of love, technology, and the disintegration of the modern mind. It's the first ever long-form screenshot.
Collector #40
Logos organises around a common purpose: protecting individual freedom and enabling collective prosperity. Our culture is merit-based and participatory, welcoming of contributions of all kinds — code, ideas, design, writing. The "Open Source Everything" zine is the first collective print collaboration in the Logos Network.
by Matthew H. Bowker
Collector #2
A critique of the irrational written in the "style of the irrational." Cognitively disjointed yet emotionally authentic language permits this text, as Wallace Stevens once described poetry, to "resist the intelligence almost successfully."
by Matthew H. Bowker
Collector #7
As If / Als Ob explores how human beings survive without firm foundations — how judgment, identity, and responsibility persist through illusion, performance, and fragile coherence when certainty collapses. A philosophical–psychoanalytic meditation on seeming, being, and damaged subjectivity.
by Senbon
Collector #15
SOMETHING SOON is a comic project about the premonition of big changes. But until something great actually happens, we can only watch life go by — between concrete buildings, near libraries and in the tunnels of the old subway. SCURRY was created as an exercise during Inktober 2024. The only condition was that there was no pre-conceived script and
by Jada Milazzo
Collector #31
Inspire by the influence of biomimicry in art - the practice of looking to nature’s forms and systems for creative solutions. Focusing on how we as creatives maintain our humanity and what makes us human in a world of ever-changing technology and progress 🌀
by Jada Milazzo
Collector #15
UNLABELED Issue 4 focused on the ideals of sustainability, intuitive creating, spirituality, and the exploration of identity through art and creative endeavors.
by Source Material Studio
Collector #7
A pocket essay on Broadcast, Lars Tunbjörk, and the feeling that the human fuse has already been blown. The first edition of Pocket Thinking from Source Material Studio.
by APEX Zine, and Freya Bromfield
Collector #84
Is our digital identity shaped by the constant stream of online trends and memes? APEX, a cutting-edge zine dives into the intersection of AI, identity, and digital culture- journeying through past, present, and future to answer this. From "Modern Accelerationism" to "Cybernatural Synergy," APEX offers fresh perspectives on evolving digital selves.
by Lance Weiler
Collector #35
This issue of the zine, travels to MAD Arts just north of Miami for a special look at Last Human Studio a collaborative workshop with high school students that blends vibe coding and digital literacy. Over the course of two and a half days, students move from having no prior experience with AI to staging a Dead Internet inspired pop-up exhibition.
by Lance Weiler
Collector #54
Issue #002 documents our latest LAST HUMAN prototype—a creepy descent into the AI slop of the dead internet, Participants were dropped into a glitching system with one urgent task: hunt down their doppelgänger. It’s a game of human CAPTCHA—prove your humanity before the algorithm erases it.
by Lance Weiler
Collector #45
The third issue of our open prototyping zine dives into how LAST HUMAN moves from the museum to the classroom. Inspired by Fluxus and John Cage’s experimental classes at The New School, students at Columbia DSL turn learning itself into performance - building haunted interfaces, masks, and rituals that blur the line between human and machine.
by glbkst
Collector #7
No, i don't plan more of these, but i had the idea because it fits to transitions in a general meaning. If seasons or artistic focus, transitions are normal?
by Dept of Transformation
Collector #58
"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.
by Dept of Transformation
Collector #17
A quick-fire method for generating feedback on individual challenges in a small group adapted from Liberating Structures.
Collector #29
Release notes. 10 very short lessons to create a tiny product in a long weekend in printable PDF format 1 audio with steps (and a private audio feed for AMA and/or questions) 1 visualization in high resolution PNG format Lots of good vibes & creative mojo
Collector #7
a crash course in creating digital products for therapists, counselors, social workers and mental health professionals....without gurus, gimmicks or selling your soul.
Collector #15
a tiny but mighty collection of fonts and templates for self published authors, artists and entrepreneurs in 2026. Specifically for Jewish authors, artists and entrepreneurs, these resources are also useful for anyone who is writing a childrens book (or a tiny non fiction book) in 2026
by Tiny
Collector #11
A new collection exploring the intersection of mindfulness, magic, mental health, inner space and self transcendence.
Collector #22
a tiny but mighty quirky collection of 30 DBT cards for therapists, coaches, teachers, social workers, mental health professionals and the curious but not yet convinced.
Collector #23
Sending loving kindness to all beings, in all directions, everywhere. May all beings be happy. May all beings feel loved. May all beings awaken. May all beings live with presence and peace. May all suffering come to an end. May all beings feel the kindness of strangers. May all beings feel loved and seen. May all beings understand wh
by Tiny
Collector #36
a tiny but mighty guide for folks who would love to succeed at Substack, because we ain't going back to retail.
by Brandon Stosuy
Collector #179
A 52-page zine exploring how artists can channel their creative anxiety. Features contributions and insights from Aubrey Plaza, Melissa Broder, Anelise Chen, Jlin, Mike Rugnetta, Henry Rollins, and Nikki Sixx
by Jesse J. Anderson
Collector #47
Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD is your starter guide to understanding your ADHD brain and learning a smarter way to find motivation.
by Avi Solomon
Collector #21
This PDF is my raw longhand introduction to my English translation of Sefer Yesira, an ancient Hebrew mystical text important not just for its internal creative effect on major medieval Jewish mystics like Abraham Abulafia, but also for its seminal influence germinating the seeds of modern logic and computing with the looming Golem of AI in view.
by Avi Solomon
Collector #18
My work-in-progress 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.
by Yancey Strickler, and IY
Collector #242
An exploration of individuality after the internet. The Post-Individual includes: — The Post Individual essay — An audio recording by the author — A video introduction — Research notes, early drafts, and slides
by Elle Griffin
Collector #239
One way our world could go from here.
by Becoming Press
Collector #50
Our second book was a strange one, some kind of amalgamation of a lore-dump and a cosmological manifesto. It's now available to read as an e-book.
by IS NOT MUSIC., Valerie Kamen, and 2 more
Collector #16
Is Not Music. Issue 02 highlights artists whose legacies far outstrip conventional measures of success. In a time when the future feels stalled — these artists serve as our north stars. They’re mile markers we glimpse as we drive forward. Ships Worldwide.
by Aleena
Collector #97
"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.
by Jada Milazzo
Collector #29
Focuses on gender norms and fluidity and how one's gender identity can impact fashion and one's artistic approach.
by Michael Betancourt
Collector #35
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
by Nadia Piet, and internet teapot
Collector #159
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.
by Brandon Stosuy
Collector #463
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.
by Brandon Stosuy
Collector #171
A zine published by The Creative Independent, compiling quotes, excerpts, and recommendations from working artists, all gathered from our archive. Topics covered include always looking for better ways to express yourself, finding your path, creating work in your own voice, following your curiosity, and more.
by IY, Severin Matusek, and 3 more
Collector #439
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.
by Jada Milazzo
Collector #17
Issue 2 is about punk culture and the way the initial idea of what it means to be "punk" has changed and developed over the years. The PUNK issue features artists, writers, photographers, and designers who see themselves as punk, in some fashion. The magazine dives deeper into how punk means rebellion in various ways; such as fashion, music choices
by Jada Milazzo
Collector #27
UNLABELED issue 3 is all about escaping reality with the soft aesthetic. Explore how dress and playfulness have impacted artists in all industries!
by Alex Durlak
Collector #74
Limited first printing (100) of the 1944 CIA-predecessor manual on everyday resistance. Pocket-sized (4.25"x7") with concealment dust jacket titled Apiculture: Managing Worker Bees & Drones. Learn to "work slowly," "make speeches," and "misunderstand orders" in this historical guide to administrative disruption. Also available as a free PDF.
by Tiny
Collector #17
a microdose of mindfulness for cultivating a bit more calm, presence and peace in difficult moments.
by Morgane Billuart, and Viktor Eichler
Collector #35
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.
by IY, Yancey Strickler, and 1 more
Collector #461
Economic precarity is up. Market demands are too. People are drowning in digital overload. Political threats loom. The second Anonymous Creative Futures survey shares what 300+ anon artists and creators feel about this moment, their words 100%.
by Tyler Mincey, and Toby Shorin
Collector #62
Members of the Baukunst collective, startup founders, and guest experts, including leaders from manufacturing giants like NVIDIA, Flex, Tesla, Rivian, and Apple, share a deep dive on one of this decade's most important issues: how AI is shifting manufacturing, employment, and the shape of human work.
by jade, Waltz, and 1 more
Collector #18
The first artist release under The Network Archives Label, "Algae Ecosystem," Vol. 1, highlights two creators & two ways of world-building through Vibe Coding. It's a way to document the tools, habits, and creative logic behind the work. This is what modern world-building looks like.
by Mitch Anzuoni
Collector #23
A library-crawling adventure RPG set in the mythical Abbey of Theleme, EX LIBRIS is a multimedia amalgamation drawing from Umberto Eco, Francois Rabelais, Clark Ashton Smith, and Marguerite Porete
by postmodern tectonics ™
Collector #124
"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.
by postmodern tectonics ™
Collector #90
a rumination on why small things need to make a big comeback
by Sophie Cowen, and Alex Lockwood
Collector #192
In late 2022, a handful of artists, scientists, movement builders, musicians, and democratic innovators came together to explore making a future based on care and freedom. The process we've called Hard Art began. This series shows how it all started, the frameworks we're using to collaborate, and how it's going.
by Underground Art And Design
Collector #216
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.
by postmodern tectonics ™
Collector #84
Some theories and practical approaches that might help you think about how you think about ideas.
by Severin Matusek, Alice Smith, and 2 more
Collector #252
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.
by Jess Jorgensen, Thays Prado, and 1 more
Collector #42
Welcome to the Sporesight meditation. You are invited to connect with the world of fungi and experiment with how it feels to be a little bit more like a mushroom. Don’t worry, this is an exercise with no substance involved other than your own imagination. Shall we begin?
by Dominika Čupková
Collector #57
Free Trade is the second zine from the Institute of Machine Unlearning. Created during a public collage session, it gathers fragments, fears, jokes, and quiet refusals to explore what AI feels like from the inside of everyday life, where attention becomes currency and imagination becomes resistance.
by Becoming Press, and Parham Ghalamdar
Collector #42
At the core of this project is a translation of “Marxist Islam or Islamic Marxism,” a groundbreaking text written by Bizhan Jazani during his imprisonment in the 1970s under the Shah’s oppressive regime. Translated by a GPT modelled on Jazani's writings, and edited by Parham Ghalamdar.
by Avi Solomon
Collector #100
Free PDF of my English translation of Sefer Yesira, an ancient Hebrew mystical text that first promulgated the concept of combinatorial creativity.
by Tiny
Collector #15
a tiny but mighty curated collection of free kid friendly fonts ideal for authors & artists and entrepreneurs. (especially those of us who are writing to inspire kids and teens) An unconventional collection of free Google fonts....and the juicy details they won't tell you about why they rock.
Collector #17
Tiny Books. Big Business. The beginners guide to writing tiny books, creating tiny products and building your brand, business and bank account with tiny but mighty products in 2026 that will change your life and maybe even change the world. Teach what you know. Do what you love. Wake up the world with your work. Join us!
by StudioCone
Collector #61
First Futures is a free, 4-hour virtual workshop that makes futures design accessible to everyone. Learn practical tools to spot change, map consequences, design speculative products, and create artefacts that challenge the status quo.
by Ariciano
Collector #11
From desire paths to the development of the internet, from party etiquettes to redefining intelligences, from Caribbean theory to advanced forms of technoculture. Take a meandering walk with this essay, as it introduces a tool that meanders through knowledge just the same.
Collector #29
On May 4th and 5th, 2022, Baukunst gathered at The Interval at The Long Now— a prominent foundation for long-term thinking— to share projects, processes, and new areas of inquiry. This is a zine we published to capture notes from the gathering.
Collector #42
On October 25th and 26th, 2022, Baukunst gathered at Warehouse XI, just outside of Boston in Somerville, MA, to share projects, processes, and new areas of inquiry. This is a zine we published to capture notes from the gathering.
by Tyler Mincey
Collector #157
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.
by Tyler Mincey
Collector #41
Baukunst explores how emerging AI techniques have the potential to revolutionize computer aided design in industrial design, engineering, construction, virtual environments, and beyond. We worked in collaboration to form a picture of what the future of engineering design software might look like and how it might in turn shape the world around us.
by Melisa Seah
Collector #31
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.
by PHASE333
Collector #32
Learn about the moon’s phases, the zodiac and astrological houses so you can understand how the transiting moon affects your personal natal chart.
Collector #24
a tiny but mighty collection and printable poster featuring the principles of building a better brain through neuroplasticity - inspired by the published books and work of Dr. David Eagleman
by Tiny
Collector #10
because sometimes you need a shitty pep talk from a stranger
by Rina Beaumont
Collector #7
pink text for the new century in its chosen format: the portable digital file. this magazine was written for my daughter about our homes inside a closed down Claire's Accessories, out on a beach after a breakdown, and inside our handbags with the soft toys we keep there. it's for all girls, gyrls, teenagers, kittens & anyone who loves to scroll.
Collector #13
Does radical honesty work? Everyone talks about authenticity in marketing, but does it actually move the needle? I ran an ecommerce experiment to test if simply being honest with our audience would help move more merch. (spoiler alert - it didn't). Here is the swipe file if you're selling stuff but don't really need the cash. You're welcome.
by Tiny
Collector #17
Tiny books. Big ideas. The future is tiny (and we're betting it all on small). Private podcast & invite to upcoming July workshop for authors, artists and entrepreneurs. Teach what you know. Do what you love. Wake up the world with your work. Join us.
by Leo Guinan
Collector #33
This was the manifesto that launched the time machine.
by Leo Guinan
Collector #4
As we accelerate into the future, it's vital that you learn how to protect your energy. This is a field manual that will help you do so. Available to early readers and design partners for the paperback and hardcover editions.
by Tiny
Collector #14
A new experimental collection i’m working on featuring unconventional ideas, weird thoughts and inspirational visualizations for people like me.* (a little weird, a little bit of an odd duck on the inside, a little mainstream on the outside, and a lot exhausted by the firehose of bullsht that seems to surround us on all sides)
by Granite Garden
Collector #18
On this project Granite Garden wants to meet you where you’re at, and walk alongside you into a new, more vibrant reality. One where the darkest and brightest moments in life are both held and cherished. This is our debut album, released May 10th, 2025.
by Yancey Strickler, IY, and 2 more
Collector #148
In June 2023, Metalabel put a yellow newspaper box on the street of the Lower East Side in NYC, and filled it up each day with copies of a free zine that celebrated a New Creative Era. This release documents that original release and makes the zine available for download.
by Avi Solomon
Collector #9
This is the draft of my forthcoming translation of Sefer Yesira, an ancient Hebrew mystical text that first promulgated the concept of combinatorial creativity. The English version is turning out to be a stand-alone text that can be read aloud as poetry. Please feel free to read, recite, record, recommend and send me reverbs!
by Tiny
Collector #31
Mindfulness, magic, (Metta) and mojo. A tiny book about big love - a simple practice to fall back in love with the world (and your life) in difficult times.
Collector #29
"Perma free" Amazon books? Discover a unique, easy and clever way to expand your existing audience - attract new readers to your Substack/newsletter, website, digital storefront, IRL business, or any other content, cause or client community you want to grow - through this little known Amazon self publishing strategy for authors and entrepreneurs.
by Seth Indigo Carnes, Alfred Steiner, and 3 more
Collector #12
Circulation is an experimental journal exploring the movement of concepts and research in contemporary art. Issue 1 features primary information in draft form, including The Artist's Contract for Decentralized Art (ACDA), an open source legal agreement for use in the transfer of decentralized art, and a draft definition of decentralized art itself.
Collector #18
Logos zine "Nation States are Obsolete", which covers excerpts from the "Farewell to Westphalia" book by Jarrad Hope and Peter Ludlow, including historical context of the Westphalian treaty.
by Bora
Collector #33
A practical introduction to typography; from anatomy and spacing to legibility and alignment, for people who want to create type that reads beautifully and feels intentional.
by Everyone Is A Girl, Julia Halasy, and 3 more
Collector #207
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.
by Logos
Collector #31
Mini pocket zine covering a tactical guide on protecting your digital footprint at events.
by Ruby Bailey
Collector #88
Here is a reality ~ 𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕓𝕥𝕠𝕡𝕚𝕒. This is the film. Sillyfunsilly visuals, cynicism, narcissism, avatars and music. (We are camouflaging Loobi's aching emptiness, as she endlessly searches for a sense of 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦/𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐚/𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞.) Loobtopia is fickle, noncommittal and vapid. IT IS SUCH FUN. W3lc0m3 Fr13Nd$. ᴛꜱ&ᴄꜱ ᴀᴘᴘʟʏ.