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.

A personal, one-page zine about pouring libations, my grandmother, immigration, grief, and ritual.

"Body Images" explores how photography, editing, and publishing technologies have influenced beauty culture from 1839 through the present day.

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.

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

a little song and dance

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

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.

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.

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.

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%.

"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

An anthology of 13 essays from the 2025 Essay Architecture Prize. 100% of royalties go to the writers, the judges, and the 2026 prize pool.

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.

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

Get detailed Notion templates for all the exercises in the Artist's Way book. ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪ Unlock your higher creativity with the self-guided 12 week program in the Artists Way written by Julia Cameron. Join artists like Doechii, Alicia Keys, Bella Hadid, and more in the creative transformation guided by these exercises.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This book presents a resolute answer to the question of A.I. and art that is both elegant and radical. The time of the artist is over; the time of art has come.

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.

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.

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.

A new annual documenting ten aesthetics forming beneath the surface of everyday life. Read them in the brands we buy, the memes we make, and the objects we collect.

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

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'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. ★

Our first collection of issues all written, composed, and compiled in 2025. Contains poems, essays, and art on a range of topics from black liberation, women's liberation, Palestine, history, creativity, organizing, theory, and more! Contents: 5 print issues PDF Downloads

This is a first edition PDF excerpt for actors and filmmakers delving into guerrilla filmmaking. Drawn from Sasha Santiago's 20+ years of experience, it offers 12 self-directed approaches to creating raw, fast-paced films with available resources. Ideal for those seeking innovative methods in authentic storytelling.

The definitive graphic design sourcebook for cult-classic video game Blippo+.

LOVE LIKE THUNDER, GRIEF LIKE RAIN is a memoir and practices to move us through grief. The work is an offering that leads us back to love with stories, meditations, and mindfulness exercises. Pre-orders are open for the first 100 editions & include a free digital copy of the book. Orders ship March 2026.

Apollo 15 Astronaut Jim Irwin shot this astonishing sequence of UV photographs (AS15-99-13487 to AS15-99-13490) of a crescent Earth seen during the return from the Moon, Apollo 15, August 1971.

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.

UNLABELED Issue 4 focused on the ideals of sustainability, intuitive creating, spirituality, and the exploration of identity through art and creative endeavors.

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.

An independent culture report on the Middle East contemporary art scene. This issue provides a snapshot of the Gulf art scene through the lens of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. We look back over the last 15 years to make sense of the defining trends that are shaping the sector highlighting local artists and grassroots programming.

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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

"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.

Focuses on gender norms and fluidity and how one's gender identity can impact fashion and one's artistic approach.

UNLABELED issue 3 is all about escaping reality with the soft aesthetic. Explore how dress and playfulness have impacted artists in all industries!

Poems in the twenty-seventh year

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 🌀

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.