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.

How has technology shaped and been shaped by sexuality? This 700+ page artist book gathers anecdotes, artworks, and historical artifacts that reveal the pervasive and perverted origins of our digital tools.

The original essay, ideas, and research that inspired Metalabel, including: — Unpublished research and thinking from May 2021 — The initial manifesto, first published in February 2022 — Further research, first published in October 2022 Preserved and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.

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.

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.

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.

Bringing together leading thinkers across technology, philosophy, and law, this collection examines the future of freedom, democracy, and human agency, supported by a digital tools guide and a glossary.

Sea of Grass explores the remnant and eradicated tallgrass prairie along the I-35 corridor from Central Texas to the Flint Hills of Kansas, depicting loss, destruction, and possibility. Housed in a custom chipboard case, a trio of small books — Bison Wallow, Prairie Town, The Corridor — is accompanied by a risograph image/text print.

Notas sobre cómo internet se volvió corporativa. El periodista y escritor José Heinz recorre la historia de la cultura web para mostrar cómo pasamos del espíritu pionero y experimental a la internet homogeneizada y corporativa que habitamos hoy.

A call to arms for artists to midwife a new cultural movement. This manifesto invites a shift from art as commodity to art as soul-work, uniting the artistic, political, and spiritual in service of a rebirth: a Second Renaissance.

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.

ON SKIBIDI is the first in-depth critical examination of Skibidi Toilet. Based off a 3M+ view TikTok series analyzing the YouTube Shorts, this pamphlet seeks to ground Skibidi within its historical moment and use it to illuminate the uncanny configurations of self and screen that define digitality today.

The heART of humanity cries out for liberation beyond the fences of these tame pastures which have emaciated our magick. This piece declares my mission to help activate an art movement that gives a % of it's profits to support projects working in regenerative culture. Projects like www.Bloomnetwork.earth and www.rehuman.earth What if?

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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”.

Our debut issue traces LAST HUMAN’s roots, from eerie prototypes at Lincoln Center to glitch-laden mobile rituals. Dive into neurothrillers, post-cinema, and AI resistance as we explore a decaying web of synthetic identity, broken interfaces, and the horror of a world where reality no longer loads.

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.

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%.

“To quote Alessandro Sbordoni: ‘as the end gets nearer, more is yet to come'. So maybe we already live (in) the end of the world, an end which stretches on endlessly, with no possible resolution." — Slavoj Žižek

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

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.

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

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.

"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

'Non-Playable Characters' is a collection of essays, short stories, interviews, and visuals that explores the figure of the NPC as a cultural symbol, internet trope, social mirror, and conceptual vessel. ★ PRE-ORDER NOW. Shipping January 2026. ★

Channel Surfing is a web series diving into the digital collections of Are.na super-users. CS002 will reflect on all things FRICTION: technological (in)efficiency, neo-Luddism, cognitive offloading, convenience culture, and more...

Channel Surfing is a monthly web series diving into the digital collections of Are.na super-users. Each month, join host Firuza as she invites 2 of her favourite Are.na collectors to showcase a channel of their choosing, and reflect on why resonant ideas stick.

ENTER THE SIMULACRUM 🧬 YOU ARE INVITED. JUNE 20TH. 10PM. SECRET WAREHOUSE LOCATION IN BROOKLYN.

Select All Images That Make Your Bones Shrivel is the third zine from the Institute of Machine Unlearning. Created through public experiments and participatory workshops, it gathers CAPTCHAs that refuse recognition and stretch a small security interface into a collective exercise in critical play.

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.

A four week intensive to familiarize participants with core texts and issues in the debate over the role of technology in society, its politics, and future. MONDAYS: 3/2, 3/9, 3/16, 3/23 @ 7:00 - 8:30pm EST

Network Archives 001: A Directory of Inspiration, is the inaugural drop from the Network Archives label. This release is a curated collection of creative experiments, writings, and reflections by a diverse community of creators, listeners, thinkers and collectors from around the globe drawn together through a love of music.

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.

NEW EPUB VERSION: Exocapitalism challenges the critical orthodoxy on how it understands and talks about capitalism today.

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)

Signed, hand-numbered, limited edition Risograph zine. Internal Empire examines the historic use of independent print by a wide array of American fringe extremist groups and subcultures, reflecting on the contemporary hyper-individualism of the fractured American psyche.

Our Ancestors lend a hand when in need of support. This is something I know to be a truth for myself.

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.

a girl's bedroom story for the vanishing second internet, this .pdf is a collectible scrap taken from an ongoing confessional prose-poetry project. it is for the girl and her shadow. it should be read alone at 4am, or opened and discarded like an inexpensive gift.

"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.

This is a free edition that focuses on how to navigate your 'Network Archives 001: A Directory of Inspiration'. It is a curated guide highlighting key themes, insights, and actionable ideas from a selection of the projects to help you explore the directory more deeply. This drop follows the inaugural release from the Network Archives label.

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.

Whether you're at a crossroads or lost in the wilds of too many possibilities, this spell conjures a compass from the patterns of your own attention.

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.

This essay enacts what it argues - that knowledge is relational and accumulative, and intelligence is designed by culture. The writing navigates across two very different parties, compares the internet and AGI to desire paths, and brings Caribbean theory into advanced forms of technoculture.

A notation instrument for practitioners whose work knows something they don't.

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.

a rumination on why small things need to make a big comeback