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

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

EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED is a 30-page, soft-bound artist's book which explores themes of interconnectedness, nature, consciousness, and spirituality.

An evening of channel-flipping, alien television, and gaming against the grain with Blippo+ co-creators YACHT at Metalabel HQ in New York.

“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

An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators. Ships from Europe.

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. More info on the lecture performance tour in Fall 2025 below! SHIPPING IN OCTOBER.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Unwritten is a collection of stories and essays for those rewriting the rules of work and life, proving there are infinite ways to matter.

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.

Pandemonia: A Novel Plague Plague Novel | High Fantasy. Low Morale. Farts. | The Legend has Been Redacted. | Fantasy Novel. Weaponized Hallucination. | A Swamp to Sewer Hero's Journey. | Final Fantasy VI meets January VI. | Tinfoil Tolkien. | Discworld meets InfoWars.

Maya Martinez's theatrical writings, in one limited edition full-length book.

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

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.

This 36-page risograph-printed pamphlet is a radical & practical guide to reclaiming your life from digital technology.

nCHANT's inaugural issue explores digital gardens as autonomous spaces for expression beyond platform capitalism. Features research with Trust community, essays on fractal structures, self-hosting guides, and philosophical dialogues. Published by REINCANTAMENTO, this issue offers a glimpse into a more personal Web.

a digital magazine filled with my favorite images & missed connections collected from newyork.craigslist.org in september 2025 ♡

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

"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.

Fred Escher made five artists’ books across two eras: austere B&W works in the 1970s and surreal, color-saturated books in the 2010s. Both are emotionally rich, often humorous, and centered on the doubled self. His books—quiet, strange, and complete—are widely available and the strongest expression of his vision.

Cosmic Sans Software is the first zine from the Institute of Machine Unlearning. Born from a workshop, it brings together collages made collectively as playful, critical detours into how AI is pictured and imagined and how we see, feel, and unlearn with machines.

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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

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.

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

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 🌀

The digital zine that is a result of the March 2025 Creasidence Comics Workshop held in Tokyo. Over the course of 4 days, 20 artists from around the world came together to co-create a comic zine centered around the theme of cherry blossom. Each page's center is the frame by Workshop Lead Mentor, renowned mangaka Akira Fukaya.

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

A Four-Panel Comics Zine by Creasidence, created in an online workshop by 5 artists. Using the kishotenketsu structure, we explore storytelling beyond conflict, embracing surprise, openness, and creative freedom in four panel limits.

The Creasidence Manga Zine — a collaborative project born from our 2-day online workshop, where artists reimagined Japanese yōkai folklore through character design and storytelling techniques. This Yōkai Festival collection transforms traditional supernatural creatures into modern manga artistry.

A new Four-Panel Comics Zine by Creasidence, created in an online workshop by 4 artists. Using the kishotenketsu structure, we explore storytelling beyond conflict, embracing surprise, openness, and creative freedom in four panel limits.

The Official Book for the short film Z (2024), directed by Marco Furyu, is here. The film structures itself around the shamanic cinema and will take you through a poetic voyage from our world into the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms, even to the stars, and then back to humanity again. Digital. Portuguese version. 10 pages. Free edition.

This zine began as a quick conversation in Mexico City about rooftops; how much space lies above us, unused. What if we saw them not as blank concrete slabs, but as spaces for care, collaboration and commons? Above Us Only Soil is a visual reflection on how we build, maintain and share space.

The first available public declaration and guiding principles of the Deterministic Intranasal Guild, as written and executed by the Board Of Olfactory Grazing Engagement Review.

Notion activity workbook. Track the practice of loving kindness meditation - cultivate more compassion, self love, purpose, presence and peace.....through the magic of "metta" meditation - and Notion! Beta access to our new mindfulness app (coming Dec 2025 - get notified when it's available in beta)

Alta is a research-based exploration of social change in Los Angeles in the early twenty-first century.

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.

Mindfulness, magic, (Metta) and mojo. A tiny book about big love - a simple practice to fall back in love with the world (and your life) in difficult times.

"Perma free" Amazon books? Discover a unique, easy and clever way to expand your existing audience - attract new readers to your Substack/newsletter, website, digital storefront, IRL business, or any other content, cause or client community you want to grow - through this little known Amazon self publishing strategy for authors and entrepreneurs.

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

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.

Introductory remarks about a series of eight, 10-page essays I will release in 2025. Includes, preface/introduction/release timetable/summaries of each essay.

Bad Kingdom is a poetic visual novel that follows three characters: Robin in Taipei, Swan in Tokyo, and a mysterious Crow, as they reflect on the loss of their beloved online multiplayer game Fly Like a Bird. The piece is presented both as an interactive Ren’Py visual story and as a comic in PDF format.