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.

A three-year compendium of the author's Instagram Stories that seeks to answer the question: "Why do we post?"

'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. ★

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.

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.

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.

An archive of the TechnoMirage event series, bringing together exhibitions, talks and artist interviews that examine the illusion of progress projected by AI and exploring how creative practitioners can reclaim agency through exhibitions, discourses, and practices that shape more equitable relationships with emerging technologies.

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

An (imaginary) inventory of … is George Perec-styled citywide participatory performance of the investigation into the remnants of New Orleans French colonial gardens, by Performance Studies professor Ross Louis, Xavier University, New Orleans.

Empty Set is a magazine dedicated to exploring all that technology writing has to offer. Inside these pages are critical essays, poems, photography, fiction, and various other detritus assembled from the wastes of our techno-culture. The first issue is on Decay.

A field guide to how blockchain and AI are dissolving traditional firms and creating new networked organizations. By Kevin Owocki, Daniel Stringer & Daniel Ospina — a blueprint for how capital, coordination, and work evolve when technology collapses the cost of trust. Digital editions deliver immediately. Print editions ship next business day.

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.

A short novelette about pop stardom, social media influencers, and the lengths people will go for fame or to walk in someone else's shoes.

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.

Sticker prints for the Cybernetics Image Library. Designed by Chaski for the Neuromantics show.

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.

"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.

A book that examines the intensifying form of totalitarianism grounded in the quiet background logic of contemporary technology.

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.

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.

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

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 conceptual card game and thought experiment created by artist Jazsalyn to shift accepted reality through Black Metatheories.

a digital magazine filled with my favorite images & missed connections collected from newyork.craigslist.org in december 2025 ♡

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 September 2025. Pre-order now.

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.

QUANTUM FLUKE presents questions, not answers. A choose-your-own-adventure poetry zine, this downloadable is meant to be experienced in an order unique to each reader. Poems conclude with a question that will lead you down one of many sequences.

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.

Artist and filmmaker Julian Castronovo's award winning film "Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued" is now available via this special edition postscript zine which includes a private online viewing link.**(Upon purchase temporary link to full film will be emailed directly.)

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.

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.

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.

We are a cultural collective of artists, activists, and scientists standing in solidarity in the face of climate and democratic collapse. We’re starting a new creative movement. Join us.

"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.

Embrace Variety Vol.01 contains three guides about the core and often overlooked aspects of visual branding: personality, design taboos, and the North Star. It is for everyone who wants to give their brand an image that stands out, stands the time and resonates. And for those who want to take better control of the branding process.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Free PDF of my English translation of Sefer Yesira, an ancient Hebrew mystical text that first promulgated the concept of combinatorial creativity.

In our digital age, every CAPTCHA solved reduces our existence to data points. Every click fuels a shadow economy, stripping away genuine connection and trapping us in endless metrics. We must reclaim authentic human experience.

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: 10/6, 10/20, 11/3, 11/17 @ 6:30 - 8:30pm EST

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.

Last winter, I held three dinners about Miranda July’s All Fours. These are the conversation prompts. Feel free to print them for your dinner, about All Fours, or any books for that matter.

"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

I bet you know someone in your life who is an internet researcher.