Writer. Metalabel Co-founder. Collector.
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.
My first book, published October 29, 2019 (Viking Books), explores how our world was overtaken by financial maximization, and charts a new path for defining our self-interest
Since 2017, the Ideaspace has been my outlet for exploring creative forms and sharing ideas. This release shares audio of four of my favorite interviews — with artist Hank Willis Thomas, economist Marianna Mazucato, and authors John Higgs and Eric Wargo — in a free .zip download.
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.
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. Join us!
Collect 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— Unpublished research and thinking from May 2021 — The initial manifesto, first published in February 2022 — Further research, first published in October 2022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 for the first time
A series of reflections from my (Yancey's) creative experiences expressed as a written essay (the A-side) and video essay (the B-side)
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
This is 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 (second printing)
How to survive on the internet
A book about the cozy web, the dark web, the dark forest, the clear net, the dark net, and a new world emerging around us
This is The DIGTAL Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet
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.
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
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.
