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

In our digital age, every CAPTCHA solved reduces our existence to data points. Every click fuels a shadow economy, stripping away genuine connection and trapping us in endless metrics. We must reclaim authentic human experience.

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.

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

A 100-day online drawing community program. Participants receive a Drawing Club Kit by mail and share their daily drawings in a private Discord channel. The drawings will be archived on its online archive birdcall.online/drawingclub.

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.

a foofaraw anthology—don't go making a huge deal about it, that's what we're here for...

"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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

Does radical honesty work? Everyone talks about authenticity in marketing, but does it actually move the needle? I ran an ecommerce experiment to test if simply being honest with our audience would help move more merch. (spoiler alert - it didn't). Here is the swipe file if you're selling stuff but don't really need the cash. You're welcome.

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Whether you're at a crossroads or lost in the wilds of too many possibilities, this spell conjures a compass from the patterns of your own attention.

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.

Sea of Grass explores the remnant and eradicated tallgrass prairie along the I-35 corridor from Central Texas to the Flint Hills of Kansas, depicting loss, destruction, and possibility. Housed in a custom chipboard case, a trio of small books — Bison Wallow, Prairie Town, The Corridor — is accompanied by a risograph image/text print.

Seven writers explore a world after nation-states.

The Quester’s Guide (Magic issue) is an interactive journey of ideas, activities and stories designed to make you see the world differently and turn the world into a creative playground. Explore through our book, a virtual platform of collective research, and a deck of prompt cards. For people fuelled by curiosity.

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.

This essay enacts what it argues - that knowledge is relational and accumulative, and intelligence is designed by culture. The writing navigates across two very different parties, compares the internet and AGI to desire paths, and brings Caribbean theory into advanced forms of technoculture.

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.

Quiet Media is a print-first publication founded on the simple belief that our attention is our most valuable resource, and it should be treated with care. Through the perspective of 15 contributors, the inaugural issue explores what changes when we stop optimizing for speed and volume, and start designing for depth and meaning instead.

Last winter, I held three dinners about Miranda July’s All Fours. These are the conversation prompts. Feel free to print them for your dinner, about All Fours, or any books for that matter.

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.

Cities should build utopia. Nations should let them. Residents should benefit from them.

Cover: Scott McElwee (Remake). Features: Artegios Distribución, Fortuyn: On-Hollands, Melania, Meta’s ad restrictions, The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru, no-fly year. Festivals: IFFR 2026, Kolkata People’s Film Festival 2026. Columns: What‘s in My Bag (Katy Scoggin), What‘s on My Desk (Daniel Garber), Legal FAQ: Production Insurance, Screen Time.

A call to arms for artists to midwife a new cultural movement. This manifesto invites a shift from art as commodity to art as soul-work, uniting the artistic, political, and spiritual in service of a rebirth: a Second Renaissance.

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.

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.

A conceptual card game and thought experiment created by artist Jazsalyn to shift accepted reality through Black Metatheories.

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.

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.

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%.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

A forensic study of Victor Barragán’s frenetic, outrageous, ultra-contemporary body of work. Equal parts graphic and comprehensive, the issue combines written investigations, interviews and visual episodes, in a ventriloquised dialogue with BARRAGÁN’s practice and its exploration of fashion, identity and image-making in the digital era.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.