“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

"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

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

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.

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.

The third issue of our open prototyping zine dives into how LAST HUMAN moves from the museum to the classroom. Inspired by Fluxus and John Cage’s experimental classes at The New School, students at Columbia DSL turn learning itself into performance - building haunted interfaces, masks, and rituals that blur the line between human and machine.

This issue of the zine, travels to MAD Arts just north of Miami for a special look at Last Human Studio a collaborative workshop with high school students that blends vibe coding and digital literacy. Over the course of two and a half days, students move from having no prior experience with AI to staging a Dead Internet inspired pop-up exhibition.

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 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

Tiny Books. Big Business. The beginners guide to writing tiny books, creating tiny products and building your brand, business and bank account with tiny but mighty products in 2026 that will change your life and maybe even change the world. Teach what you know. Do what you love. Wake up the world with your work. Join us!

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

Cómo la inteligencia artificial se volvió la infraestructura de los ecosistemas musicales x Nicolás Madoery.

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. Receive access to early drafts by pre-ordering. First chapter drafts fruiting late summer 2026 🌸

The Fête of Britain: four days of joyous celebration of the imagination... and what we can collectively achieve when we decide to replace competition with collaboration. Curated by Hard Art at Aviva Studios in Manchester. It’s the opening salvo for a new movement. Hit Support below to join us!

Nine women, from graduates to grandmothers, were found not guilty for taking nonviolent direct action with Extinction Rebellion at the headquarters of one of the world’s biggest investors in fossil fuels, HSBC. [Main image: Sarah Cresswell]

The fourth issue of the Institute of Machine Unlearning's zine series documenting Three Sad Tigers Eat Cereal at the Server Farm (2026), the Institute's first exhibition featuring participatory artworks exploring AI, datasets, recognition, and collective play.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 collaboration between Darcia Narvaez, PhD, Developer of the Evolved Nest, and Natureza Gabriel, Developer of Autonomics

What does it feel like when a machine touches you back? For Berlin New Media Week, we present a hands-on workshop with Jason J. Snell exploring EEG audiovisual neurofeedback, followed by a roundtable discussion with live EEG performances and soundbaths. A two-day event, one shared frequency. Hosted in collaboration with The Node Institute.

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.

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

Service and Sacrifice tells the true story of a disabled American soldier taken into ICE custody at a citizenship interview—and the family and community who refused to let the Republic forget its own ideals. A love story, a constitutional reckoning, and a call to action to make the promise of America and the protection of the Constitution real.

Homage to Apollo 8 & 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell RIP

This issue takes the error code not as a technical fault but as a cultural figure: the link rot, the place, the subject which refuses reach. The issue gathers texts and images that trace the 𝟺𝟶𝟺 of what cannot be indexed.

Kinfolk Dominoes pairs smooth tiles with a custom cherry wood box for timeless play and display. Each tile is embossed with the Kinfolk healing symbol, carrying beauty and meaning in every game. Celebrating the ceremony of connection in Black, Brown, and Caribbean communities, this heirloom is a keepsake to be passed down for generations.

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.

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

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

A cookbook zine featuring recipes, essays, and artwork from a community of LGBTQ+ chefs, writers, and artists. All proceeds go to queer mutual aid organizations!

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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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Chronicles five years of lectures, exhibitions and art work from Uncensored New York.

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.

The world's first VR rap music album in history. Set in the Southside of Chicago. Viewable on your phone, tablet, or computer. Updated version of A Ü T O/M Ö T O R from vyle, created in NYC New Museum, as part of their NEW INC artist incubator, with new tracks, updated 3D environments, added interactivity, and more.

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.

Exocapitalism challenges the critical orthodoxy on how it understands and talks about capitalism today.

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.