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The Schwestern Sisters Volume I.

The Schwestern Sisters Volume I.

Released on Shadow M Genesis

𝕷𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖘𝖈𝖆𝖕𝖊 𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖉, 𝖍𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖟𝖔𝖓 𝖉𝖆𝖜𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖌. 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖁𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖓, 𝖎𝖓𝖘𝖈𝖗𝖚𝖙𝖆𝖇𝖑𝖊, 𝖔𝖕𝖎𝖆𝖙𝖊, 𝖘𝖜𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖓. 𝕾𝖚𝖓. Salsa and Merango are slowly drying in the desert. These two lab rats are the last human beings in the universe, and they have one task left to do.

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The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet

The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet

Released on The Dark Forest Collective

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.

$10+

𝔦 ❤ 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔭𝔲𝔱𝔢𝔯 ~ bumper stickers

𝔦 ❤ 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔭𝔲𝔱𝔢𝔯 ~ bumper stickers

Released on Rhizome.org

ever wanted to rep your definitely healthy relationship with your computer?? introducing... 𝔦 ❤ 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔭𝔲𝔱𝔢𝔯 bumper stickers !

$7+

Legal Structures for Creative Practices

Legal Structures for Creative Practices

Released on A Thousand Forests

"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

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Class Fantasy

Class Fantasy

Released on Joshua Citarella

Class Fantasy is an action RPG card game that pairs fantasy character classes with political ideologies. The game accommodates 2 - 12 players. Your goal is to defeat other characters in battle and achieve utopia.

$50

the Artists Way exercises - Notion templates

the Artists Way exercises - Notion templates

Released on EMPOWA

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.

$5

Bunny Series Postcard Set

Bunny Series Postcard Set

Released on Cristine Brache

A set of ten postcards featuring reproductions of paintings from Cristine Brache’s Bunny series.

$25+

A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

Released on The Dark Forest Collective

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. UPDATE: Due to shipping delays, USA-orders will ship by early-Dec; international-orders are shipping now.

$35+

Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading

Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading

Released on The Dark Forest Collective

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.

$10+

Chicago Artists to Watch 2025

Chicago Artists to Watch 2025

Released on These Days Magazine

These Days Magazine presents the final edition of our annual Chicago Artists to Watch feature. This year's class includes m.e.h., Menace4hire, Mike DFG, Mvte, Sparklmami, Teala Vera, The Era & Woes. Read the interviews & check out the photography in our first ever digital zine.

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Uncovering Algorithms: Conversations on the Impact of AI

Uncovering Algorithms: Conversations on the Impact of AI

Released on Uncovering Algorithms

'Uncovering Algorithms: Conversations on the Impact of AI' brings together a series of in-depth interviews with leading voices in AI and technology ethics, exploring the pressing ethical, societal, and environmental challenges posed by AI. The book presents accessible, conversational narratives that make complex ideas easy to grasp.

$20+

La gentrificación digital x José Heinz

La gentrificación digital x José Heinz

Released on FUTURX

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.

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How to Navigate : A Directory of Inspiration

How to Navigate : A Directory of Inspiration

Released on Network Archives

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.

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The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

Released on The Ideaspace by Yancey Strickler

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.

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Introducing Metalabel

Introducing Metalabel

Released on Metalabel squad

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.

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Anonymous Creative Futures Report

Anonymous Creative Futures Report

Released on Metalabel squad

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.

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Book of Creativity: Free PDF

Book of Creativity: Free PDF

Released on Avi Solomon

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

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The Bodies by D.H. Parish

The Bodies by D.H. Parish

Released on Foofaraw Press

A 46-page murder mystery novella with some sci-fi adjacent elements. This is the first novella from Foofaraw Press and is available in print, digital, and a limited edition hardcover.

$4.99+

Ch. 2: FANDOM

Ch. 2: FANDOM

Released on Everyone Is A Girl

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.

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On Making a Living as an Artist (Digital Edition)

On Making a Living as an Artist (Digital Edition)

Released on The Creative Independent

In 2018, The Creative Independent published our first zine, featuring the emotional and practical wisdom of Philip Glass, Yumna Al-Arashi, Taja Cheek, and others on how to make a living as an artist. This is a digital edition of that work.

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On finding your voice

On finding your voice

Released on The Creative Independent

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.

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Forever Mediated: Feminist Erotic Texts and the Seduction Economy (PDF)

Forever Mediated: Feminist Erotic Texts and the Seduction Economy (PDF)

Released on Bimbo Rhetoric

Written by Ester Freider ISBN: 979-8-9923515-1-4 Publisher: Bimbo Rhetoric Publishing House Publication Date: May 5, 2025 Pages: 63 pages Language: English

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On dealing with creative anxiety

On dealing with creative anxiety

Released on The Creative Independent

A 52-page zine exploring how artists can channel their creative anxiety. Features contributions and insights from Aubrey Plaza, Melissa Broder, Anelise Chen, Jlin, Mike Rugnetta, Henry Rollins, and Nikki Sixx

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Matriarchy: A Community-Funded Book

Matriarchy: A Community-Funded Book

Released on Nergiz

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

$15+

Semiotics of the End: Essays on Capitalism & the Apocalypse (2025) by Alessandro Sbordoni

Semiotics of the End: Essays on Capitalism & the Apocalypse (2025) by Alessandro Sbordoni

Released on Becoming

“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

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After the Creator Economy

After the Creator Economy

Released on Metalabel squad

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.

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A New Creative Era

A New Creative Era

Released on Metalabel squad

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.

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Nine Creative Meditations

Nine Creative Meditations

Released on Metalabel squad

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

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A PHONE OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN

A PHONE OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN

Released on Pierce Day

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.

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DNR Fall 25: Technology Criticism

DNR Fall 25: Technology Criticism

Released on Do Not Research

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

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The Black Elephant Lapel Pin

The Black Elephant Lapel Pin

Released on Collapsonomics

Where do you turn, when you no longer believe that the way of living we grew up taking for granted can be made “sustainable”? Wear the pin to find others asking these questions, engage the curious and start conversations. Comes with a laminated information card including a QR-code linking to the Collapsonomics.info resource hub.

$8+

Exocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits (2025) by Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo

Exocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits (2025) by Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo

Released on Becoming

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

$10

Simple Sabotage Field Guide: Pocket Edition

Simple Sabotage Field Guide: Pocket Edition

Released on Standard Form Press

Limited first printing (100) of the 1944 CIA-predecessor manual on everyday resistance. Pocket-sized (4.25"x7") with concealment dust jacket titled Apiculture: Managing Worker Bees & Drones. Learn to "work slowly," "make speeches," and "misunderstand orders" in this historical guide to administrative disruption. Also available as a free PDF.

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Other Internet 2018–2024

Other Internet 2018–2024

Released on Other Internet

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.

$40

The Post-Individual

The Post-Individual

Released on The Dark Forest Collective

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

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This Could Be Our Future

This Could Be Our Future

Released on The Ideaspace by Yancey Strickler

My first book, published October 29, 2019 (Viking Books), explores how our world was overtaken by financial maximization, and charts a new path for defining our self-interest

$25

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Technically Man Dwells upon this Earth (2023) by Ulysse Carrière

Technically Man Dwells upon this Earth (2023) by Ulysse Carrière

Released on Becoming

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.

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Thinking

Thinking

Released on graingerco

In your own thinking dimension art

$70

Cosmeage: A Study

Cosmeage: A Study

Released on Ariciano

Cosmeage, originally experienced as a film, has traveled from NYC's MoMA to Los Angeles' The Music Center. It explores Black cultural gestures, embodied sensorial memory, and pan-African diasporic sound, while situated within surrealist architecture. This release translates the film into a tactile form of nearly 200 cinematic stills and process.

$30+

The Emergency Was Curiosity

The Emergency Was Curiosity

Released on The Lost Season

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.

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SIAHKAL 2.0: An A.I. resurrected discourse on Marxism & Islam

SIAHKAL 2.0: An A.I. resurrected discourse on Marxism & Islam

Released on Becoming

At the core of this project is a translation of “Marxist Islam or Islamic Marxism,” a groundbreaking text written by Bizhan Jazani during his imprisonment in the 1970s under the Shah’s oppressive regime. Translated by a GPT modelled on Jazani's writings, and edited by Parham Ghalamdar.

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Spell 001

Spell 001

Released on Spell of the Month

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

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Mycelium As Mode Report - Baukunst Study Group 001

Mycelium As Mode Report - Baukunst Study Group 001

Released on Baukunst

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.

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Whoa, Vol. 2: Conversations on AI × Creativity

Whoa, Vol. 2: Conversations on AI × Creativity

Released on Sublime

A limited series of ten in-depth conversations with some of our favorite thinkers and creatives where we explore how artificial intelligence is changing and challenging creative work. Brought to you by sublime.app, the knowledge tool that sparks creativity.

$40+

A Modern Comfort

A Modern Comfort

Released on In Process

Self-initiated collaborative design publication on the design and aesthetic of Palm Springs

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ON SKIBIDI

ON SKIBIDI

Released on Aidan Walker

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.

$2.67

First Futures

First Futures

Released on StudioCone

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.

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