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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.

Mean Hand is a typeface made from the average of thousands of individual samples in the EMNIST dataset: 814,255 handwritten characters gathered by the US government in the early 1990s to automate Census form processing. The font covers the full alphabet and digits across nine weights.

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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Some theories and practical approaches that might help you think about how you think about ideas.

A blend of IRL ritual and AI prompt, this spell is designed to transform your fears into fresh fuel for your creativity.

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.

Lyssa is part summer novella, horror screenplay, greek tragedy, psychoanalytic essay, and travelogue into the unconscious. 🖤🩸

Digital Downlaod of Up Yours! Collective's inaugural zine ISSUE 1: Oh Bondage Up Yours!

46 cards, 46 questions built around music and memory. Designed for Alone Together, where strangers used them to talk to each other properly. A prompt about a song is never really about the song — it's about what was happening when you heard it. Now yours to use anywhere. At dinner, on a drive, with someone you've never really talked to.

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.

Moving on from Mark Fisher.

Organized around four thematic problems that have reshaped artistic practice over the last fifty years: the relationship between art and life, the changing status of images, the materiality of moving images, and contemporary developments beyond post-internet art. Facilitated by artist Andy Bennett TUESDAYS 8/11, 8/18, 8/25, 9/1 6:30-8:30 pm EST

Pre-order artist and filmmaker Cristine Brache's second collection of poetry: 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. For international orders contact: goodnightsweetthing@gmail.com

A quick-fire method for generating feedback on individual challenges in a small group adapted from Liberating Structures.

Pompeii! is Prem Krishnamurthy’s evolving digital artwork—a layered PDF archive tracing transformation, ritual, and collective authorship. Released via the Pompeii Commitment, it reframes catastrophe as creative turning, inviting viewers into an open, living document of change.

"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.

P.P.P.P.P.P. (People! Practice Participating in Participatory Projects, Please.) by Naoco Wowsugi, 2023 “Why are artists always seen as the leaders or organizers? Why can’t you be an artist by being a participant?” —Naoco Wowsugi

Conceived by Oliver Herring and recounted by DOT Curator Sam Rauch, TASK is a group artmaking activity that can lead to collective chaos (and a lot of fun!)

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.

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.

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.

A toolkit for blockchain projects to decentralize governance. Written by Tara Merk, Primavera De Filippi, Morshed Mannan and Nathan Schneider. Published by BlockchainGov.

A physical only (not digital) art-zine, with collated research on the geometric form of the divine goddess Kali. Through excerpts, quotes, imagery and memes, the pages present as a blueprint for one's own conjecture of the goddess herself. A5 (5.8" x 8.3"), 16 pages, CYMK, 1 Paper Type. Published by Aamina Simone. Printed in Bangalore, India.

Seven writers explore a world after nation-states.

"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.

Channel Surfing is a web series deep-diving into digital collections. CS003 will reflect on all things WIKI: rabbit holes, hyperlinks, online communities, free information, folksonomic classification, and the usefulness of useless knowledge.

learn how to meditate like the Buddha - step by step instructions and visualizations on mindful breathing from the Anapanasati Sutta - ideal for anxious and overwhelmed authors, artists and entrepreneurs.

What comes after the 400-year-old nation-state system? Has this revolution already started from the depths of the internet? Farewell to Westphalia explores what is likely to succeed nation states, from cyberstates to internet movements, backed by the authors’ decades of experience.

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%.

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.

"All That Surrounds Us" is a collection of creative writings from fifteen members of NEW INC’s Y12 Social Architecture cohort.

Our fourth anthology book. DNR began as a private chat server gathered to discuss memetics and emergent political trends.

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.

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.

"A Few Essays on Taste" is a collection of essays on fashion, trends, and culture written by Ruby Justice Thelot in 2024.

Imagine we were more like fungi? If we are to solve some of humanity’s most radical challenges, we need radical new ways of thinking. Fungi as your Futurist is a first-of-its kind playbook for imagining regenerative futures, inspired by nature’s intelligence. It invites you to think like fungi.

Find order in a chaotic world with whatdoyousee.nyc, a participatory web-based archive composed of curiosity, code, and hundreds of photos of everyday New York City.

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

42 stoic life quotes to remind you how to live well. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – 65 AD) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, and playwright — one of the most influential minds of the ancient world. His Letters to Lucilius, written in the final years of his life, remain among the most personal and practical works of philosophy ever written.

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 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.

"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

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 within one week of ordering.

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?

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 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.