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.

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.

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.

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.

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 history of memetic circulation, situated within a genealogy of occult logics...

Season 2 of New York City Garbage continues with the first-ever DOUBLE DROP — two limited editions of 25. Collected from the 56th annual NYC Pride March 🏳️‍🌈 and the legendary Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest 🌭 in Coney Island, these cubes capture the spirit, spectacle, and joy of New York’s iconic summer traditions. See you at noon!

The third issue of The Whitney Review of New Writing (Spring/Summer 2024) is about SURFACE, FRICTION, INHERITANCE, and DEBTS. In less than a year, The Whitney Review has proven a taste-making force in literary criticism. Each issue collects original essays, author interviews, and book reviews (plus offbeat reviews of new writing in other forms).

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

Pictures of dirt, gravel, sand, etc. piles from around Berkeley, CA and the greater Bay Area.

Four week intensive course delving into the core ideas and questions explored in the foundational stages of DNR. We will examine artworks, texts, and internet media covering topics: internet-informed identity, political futures, & post-internet art. Facilitated by artist Theresa Tomi Faison via Discord, SUNDAYS AUGUST: 9, 16, 23, & 30 1-3pm EST

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

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.

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

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.

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

XO is a collection of poems by interdisciplinary writer/artist Cat Tyc. (134 pages)

"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 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.

Alfred Muszynski (1998) is a visual artist based in Montreal, Canada. This is the artist's first publication. The volume features multimedia paintings created between 2022 - 2025. 68 pages, 8.5×11 in

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

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

A short film about the last second before an outcome is known: when lust is still a winnable game, and love never was one. Dice, which also means it says, invites viewers into the pause between the throw and the reveal. A Prelude for MRROR5

Four week intensive course delving into the core ideas and questions explored in the foundational stages of DNR. We will examine artworks, texts, and internet media covering topics: internet-informed identity, political futures, & post-internet art. Facilitated by artist Theresa Tomi Faison via Discord, MONDAY AUGUST: 10, 17, 24, & 31 6:30-8:30 EST

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.

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.

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.

'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. ★

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.

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.

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.

How can ancient wisdom shape the future of AI? In the zine Pasts, Presents, Futures: A Zine About Ancestral AI, we take a step back to reflect and reimagine. What if we used lessons from the past seven generations to create AI that helps us build a world worthy of the next seven?

The seventh issue of Fishnet Magazine explores the concept of fantasy versus realism. This zine is made up of various artists' works, varying across all different mediums. Preorder shipping starts in late August.

Baukunst explores how emerging AI techniques have the potential to revolutionize computer aided design in industrial design, engineering, construction, virtual environments, and beyond. We worked in collaboration to form a picture of what the future of engineering design software might look like and how it might in turn shape the world around us.

Members of the Baukunst collective, startup founders, and guest experts, including leaders from manufacturing giants like NVIDIA, Flex, Tesla, Rivian, and Apple, share a deep dive on one of this decade's most important issues: how AI is shifting manufacturing, employment, and the shape of human work.

GEOTYPE is a font with angular shapes, sharp contrasts, and a bold and experimental style. A playful display typeface that's eye catching on every surface. It's the very first font created by Seah Studio, in partnership with the Letterform Archive.

A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man is a dizzying descent into digital madness, where one man's screen addiction and artistic ambitions collide in a genre-bending exploration of love, technology, and the disintegration of the modern mind. It's the first ever long-form screenshot.

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.

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.

Anatomy of a manufactured moral crisis.

The stacks are open! Browse books, zines, and ephemera at the Cybernetics Library, an interdisciplinary research library that extends and re-contextualizes the expansive history of cybernetic thought and practice.

Is Not Music. Issue 02 highlights artists whose legacies far outstrip conventional measures of success. In a time when the future feels stalled — these artists serve as our north stars. They’re mile markers we glimpse as we drive forward. Ships Worldwide.

Is Not Music is a multi-platform project that creates, contextualizes, explores and archives work from artists. We work in physical & digital formats while making sure to privilege the former (IRL experience) over the latter (AI slop, social media & other algorithmic-driven popularity contests).

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.

On October 25th and 26th, 2022, Baukunst gathered at Warehouse XI, just outside of Boston in Somerville, MA, to share projects, processes, and new areas of inquiry. This is a zine we published to capture notes from the gathering.

On May 4th and 5th, 2022, Baukunst gathered at The Interval at The Long Now— a prominent foundation for long-term thinking— to share projects, processes, and new areas of inquiry. This is a zine we published to capture notes from the gathering.

From desire paths to the development of the internet, from party etiquettes to redefining intelligences, from Caribbean theory to advanced forms of technoculture. Take a meandering walk with this essay, as it introduces a tool that meanders through knowledge just the same.