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The Best Internet Essays 2025

The Best Internet Essays 2025

Released on Essay Architecture

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.

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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.

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Earth from Apollo 15

Earth from Apollo 15

Released on Avi Solomon

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.

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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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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.

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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.

$35+

Algae Ecosystem Vol. 1

Algae Ecosystem Vol. 1

Released on Network Archives

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.

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UNLABELED Issue 4

UNLABELED Issue 4

Released on UNLABELED Magazine

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

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What Do You See?

What Do You See?

Released on Molly Baker Ragan

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.

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Observations Issue 01 - A Gulf Contemporary: The Forefront of International Art

Observations Issue 01 - A Gulf Contemporary: The Forefront of International Art

Released on The Mothership

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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UNLABELED Issue 2

UNLABELED Issue 2

Released on UNLABELED Magazine

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

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Glass Mirror 001: What If?

Glass Mirror 001: What If?

Released on Glass Mirror: a speculative research journal

"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.

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UNLABELED Issue 1

UNLABELED Issue 1

Released on UNLABELED Magazine

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

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UNLABELED Issue 3

UNLABELED Issue 3

Released on UNLABELED Magazine

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

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27

Released on Wisecracker

Poems in the twenty-seventh year

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UNLABELED Issue 5

UNLABELED Issue 5

Released on UNLABELED Magazine

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 🌀

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LAST HUMAN #002

LAST HUMAN #002

Released on Last Human Collective

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.

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WATF! Presents: XPIZZA ARCHIVAL ZINE (2022-2024)

WATF! Presents: XPIZZA ARCHIVAL ZINE (2022-2024)

Released on WE ARE THE FUTURE!

In this zine, you will find exclusive interviews with the founders, staff and resident DJs of the beloved NYC venue, XPIZZA, as a testament to the power of community and a tribute to the unique cultural scene that formed in South Seaport District in the span of two years.

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The War of the Worlds Did Not Take Place

The War of the Worlds Did Not Take Place

Released on objects of

A century-old myth. Aliens, war and magic. What do they reveal about our modern era of technology and media? The War of the Worlds Did Not Take Place is a 24-page tabloid newspaper created by Nick Susi with visual objects by Domingo Beta. Debuted at FWB FEST25, with an original score by VÉRITÉ.

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Channel Surfing 001: Evan Collins & Selina Kehuan Wu

Channel Surfing 001: Evan Collins & Selina Kehuan Wu

Released on Channel Surfing

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.

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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.

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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.

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surface treasure - issue eleven

surface treasure - issue eleven

Released on Maddie Potocnik

a digital magazine filled with my favorite images & missed connections collected from newyork.craigslist.org in february 2026 ♡

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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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LAST HUMAN #001

LAST HUMAN #001

Released on Last Human Collective

Our debut issue traces LAST HUMAN’s roots, from eerie prototypes at Lincoln Center to glitch-laden mobile rituals. Dive into neurothrillers, post-cinema, and AI resistance as we explore a decaying web of synthetic identity, broken interfaces, and the horror of a world where reality no longer loads.

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Institute of Machine Unlearning Zine #2: Free Trade

Institute of Machine Unlearning Zine #2: Free Trade

Released on Institute of Machine Unlearning

Free Trade is the second zine from the Institute of Machine Unlearning. Created during a public collage session, it gathers fragments, fears, jokes, and quiet refusals to explore what AI feels like from the inside of everyday life, where attention becomes currency and imagination becomes resistance.

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Institute of Machine Unlearning Zine #3: Select All Images that Make Your Bones Shrivel

Institute of Machine Unlearning Zine #3: Select All Images that Make Your Bones Shrivel

Released on Institute of Machine Unlearning

Select All Images That Make Your Bones Shrivel is the third zine from the Institute of Machine Unlearning. Created through public experiments and participatory workshops, it gathers CAPTCHAs that refuse recognition and stretch a small security interface into a collective exercise in critical play.

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GEOTYPE

GEOTYPE

Released on Seah Studio

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.

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DOT Cookbook Entry: TASK

DOT Cookbook Entry: TASK

Released on Department of Transformation

Conceived by Oliver Herring and recounted by DOT Curator Sam Rauch, TASK is a group artmaking activity that can lead to collective chaos (and a lot of fun!)

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Alt-Alterity: Art and Interviews from the Immersive Virtual Exhibition

Alt-Alterity: Art and Interviews from the Immersive Virtual Exhibition

Released on Underground Art And Design

"Alt-Alterity" envisions a world where the notion of “alterity” dissolves, making way for new affinities. In response to an era marked by crisis, this curatorial project serves as an artistic provocation, navigating you through speculative realities, rebellious technologies, and fluid identities shaped by the ideas and works of 31 artists.

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Workshop of Workshops

Workshop of Workshops

Released on Department of Transformation

"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.

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Falling Snow

Falling Snow

Released on some1us

A girl travels to Copenhagen to retrieve mysterious black market death pills.

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Begin Forwarded Message

Begin Forwarded Message

Released on Laura Winn

In 2007 I met a musician on Myspace – a Brit living in Reykjavik. We fell in love. For 9 months, we swapped songs, art, letters, Skype calls & brief moments in real life, kissing in cars. In 2016 I traveled to Iceland to make a project about our relationship. This book is the result. Begin Forwarded Message tells our story from beginning to end.

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Try CPR: Clothing Patch & Repair

Try CPR: Clothing Patch & Repair

Released on Sayang

Save your clothes and learn how to bring them back to life with this instructional zine and mending kit.

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ARCHIO

ARCHIO

Released on Jeff Wood

A science-fiction liturgy and pilgrimage to the Agion Oros—Mt. Athos, Greece. Video, text and field recordings by Jeff Wood.

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The Doggy Bag Nation

The Doggy Bag Nation

Released on RIOT LABORATORIES

A visual investigation of polarization in the USA In collaboration with Angelo Semeraro (IG @semeraro.studio)

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MRROR THE CRISIS OF REFLECTIONS

MRROR THE CRISIS OF REFLECTIONS

Released on MRRORMRROR

A zine about the collapse of reflection in a culture of infinite visibility. A fractured mirror inviting readers to rethink what it means to be seen.

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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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The Post-Individual (Open Edition)

The Post-Individual (Open Edition)

Released on The Ideaspace by Yancey Strickler

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

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CMYK – 52 Typoems :: 4 typefaces | 4 letters | 4 sections  by Michael Betancourt

CMYK – 52 Typoems :: 4 typefaces | 4 letters | 4 sections by Michael Betancourt

Released on Cinegraphic Media

CMYK is an asemic poetry book published by Swedish press Timglaset. It was their blackest book ever and simultaneously one of their most colorful. Now out of print, it was originally published in an edition of 99 copies, and was a winner in The Society of Typographic Arts 45th STA100 in 2024

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Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD

Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD

Released on Jesse J. Anderson

Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD is your starter guide to understanding your ADHD brain and learning a smarter way to find motivation.

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AI-Z: Conversations about resistance & genAI

AI-Z: Conversations about resistance & genAI

Released on Peckham Digital - Network Terminal

A zine documenting conversations about resistance from activists outside of technology to translate into modes of resistance against genAI models.

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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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Privacy at Events Mini Zine

Privacy at Events Mini Zine

Released on Logos Press Engine

Mini pocket zine covering a tactical guide on protecting your digital footprint at events.

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P.P.P.P.P.P. by Naoco Wowsugi

P.P.P.P.P.P. by Naoco Wowsugi

Released on Department of Transformation

P.P.P.P.P.P. (People! Practice Participating in Participatory Projects, Please.) by Naoco Wowsugi, 2023 “Why are artists always seen as the leaders or organizers? Why can’t you be an artist by being a participant?” —Naoco Wowsugi

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SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Released on postmodern tectonics ™

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

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