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The Lost Season
The Emergency Was Curiosity

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The Emergency Was Curiosity

by Christie George

Free+

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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NOW
Tiny.  A Revolution.  (How to Build a Big Business With Tiny Products)

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How to create Tiny products that make an oversized impact in your brand, business and bank account. Teach what you know. Do what you love. Wake up the world with your work. Join us.

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co—matter
New World Order 2025

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New World Order 2025

by Severin Matusek, Alice Smith, and 2 more

$5+

New World Order: The Return of Hard Power and Soft Beliefs is a 35-page research memo about what happens when power, infrastructure and ideology collide. A manual for anyone trying to make sense of the present, New World Order contains ideas, context and language to participate in shaping the world that emerges in front of our eyes.

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objects of
The War of the Worlds Did Not Take Place

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The War of the Worlds Did Not Take Place

by Nick Susi, and Domingo Beta

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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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The Dark Forest Collective
Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading

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Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading

by Nadia Asparouhova, and Leïth Benkhedda

$10+

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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Metalabel squad
A New Creative Era

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A New Creative Era

by Yancey Strickler, IY, and 2 more

Free

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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The Dark Forest Collective
The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet

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The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet

by Yancey Strickler, Peter Limberger, and 9 more

$10+

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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Special Effects
Techno Primitivism: Issue 02

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Techno Primitivism: Issue 02

by Special Effects

$30

Styled as a pseudoscientific journal, Techno Primitivism examines manifestations of the ancient as they are mediated through contemporary technology. Signed by the artist.

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Ambessa
THE WORLD IS YOURS

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The World is Yours is a zine by Ambessa that brings together the most optimistic and brilliant minds we know, from educators to artists and designers, to reflect on education and agency. 100 limited hardcover die-cut copies on Metalabel.

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Rebecca Clark
Book of Hours: An Artist's Book for the Anthropocene

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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.

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Maddie Potocnik
surface treasure - issue four

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surface treasure - issue four

by Maddie Potocnik

Free

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

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August Lamm
You Don't Need a Smartphone

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

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UNLABELED Magazine
UNLABELED Issue 1

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UNLABELED Issue 1

by Jada Milazzo

Free

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

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A Thousand Forests
Legal Structures for Creative Practices

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Legal Structures for Creative Practices

by A Thousand Forests, Enrique H, and 2 more

Free

"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

ideaspace
The Ideaspace by Yancey Strickler
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

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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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Metalabel Gift Shop
Metalabel T-shirt 001

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Part of Metalabel SS2025 collection. DOOM→BLOOM Handprinted in Lisbon on heavyweight Gildan T-Shirt. Limited edition of 40.

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Underground Art And Design
Worlds Unfolding: Ideas and Prompts for Virtual World-Making

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Worlds Unfolding is a guide and inspiration hub for virtual world-making, offering curated prompts, community-contributed projects, and ideas that blend storytelling, design, and imagination. It explores how virtual spaces can foster connection, creativity, and care while critically examining their ties to the dominant paradigm.

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FUTURX
AI+Music - ebook ENG

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AI+Music - ebook ENG

by Nicolás Madoery

$2

FUTURX and LARROSA present “AI+MUSIC. CONTEXT + USES + ETHICS: Artificial Intelligence in Music Ecosystems”. The publication has two main objectives: to propose a common language to overcome binary and polarized perspectives on AI in the music industry, and to catalyze critical and constructive discussions for a future that is already inevitable.

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Other Internet
Other Internet 2018–2024

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Other Internet 2018–2024

by Toby Shorin, Laura Lotti, and 2 more

$40

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.

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IS NOT MUSIC
IS NOT MUSIC, Zine Issue #01

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IS NOT MUSIC, Zine Issue #01

by IS NOT MUSIC., Alec Hanley Bemis, and 3 more

Free

Is Not Music is a multi-platform project that creates, contextualizes, explores and archives work from artists. We work in physical & digital formats while making sure to privilege the former (IRL experience) over the latter (AI slop, social media & other algorithmic-driven popularity contests).

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Nergiz
Matriarchy: A Community-Funded Book

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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

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Laura Winn
LOVE LIKE THUNDER, GRIEF LIKE RAIN

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LOVE LIKE THUNDER, GRIEF LIKE RAIN is a memoir and practices to move us through grief. The work is an offering that leads us back to love with stories, meditations, and mindfulness exercises. Pre-orders are open for the first 100 editions & include a free digital copy of the book. Pre-orders ship by October 1, 2025.

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Elysian Collective
TERRAFORM

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TERRAFORM

by Elle Griffin, Étienne Fortier-Dubois, and 5 more

$5+

Six writers explore the future of our planet.

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Becoming
RSVP: Becoming Press presents "ΠΑΜΕ ΒΕΝΕΤΙΑ!"

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Becoming Press is coming to Venice to celebrate its 10th book—RSVP here to join us for a series of talks and presentations featuring many authors from Becoming Press' alumni. [11–15 September 2025]. Select which day you would like to attend, or choose a 4-day ticket if you would like to attend all of the talks.

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postmodern tectonics ™
ON IDEAS

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ON IDEAS

by postmodern tectonics ™

Free

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

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MEMORY
Your Final Meditation FILM • Magic Rock + Digital Bundle

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Your Final Meditation FILM • Magic Rock + Digital Bundle

by Riel Roch-Decter, and Expanded Views

$12+

The transcendent new film, 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 (YFM), by Baltimore filmmaker Corey Hughes is now available in two exclusive editions: 𝗬𝗙𝗠 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗲 or as the ultimate physical artifact - the 𝗬𝗙𝗠 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸

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skyhoje
BIZARRE WORLD OF PROPERTIES (USA EDITION)

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“Bizarre World of Properties (USA Edition)” is a playful deep dive into the curious world of Zillow listings. Some images have been manipulated in Photoshop, while others remain untouched. Each box contains: 50 prints, A5, unbound, double-sided + 1 sticker. *Edition of 20 physical boxes plus 1 AP. Worldwide shipping within 3 weeks!

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Subtext Books
Ātamōn - a life unit

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Album and book from Swedish composer Amina Hocine, who builds site specific organs comprised of materials found in hardware stores, such as PVC pipes, hoses, and ball valves, that are powered by construction site air compressors. The book includes graphic scores and essays from Jennifer Lucy Allan and Amina herself.

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Subtext Books
Cybernetics, or Ghosts? — Stories from Myth to A.I. — Book and music compilation

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Edited by writer and artist Michael Salu, fifteen of today’s most daring writers from across the globe read and respond to Italo Calvino’s seminal essay ‘Cybernetics and Ghosts’ with rich and expansive works of fiction.

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Subtext Books
Fifth Quarter: Derek Jarman, Keith Collins & Dungeness

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Fifth Quarter: Derek Jarman, Keith Collins & Dungeness' brings together collaborators, friends, contemporary artists, writers, musicians, and curators to respond to the influence and legacy of Jarman and his late partner Collins. An album recorded in Jarman's studio by editor Alexander Tucker and the late Keith Collins serves as a companion piece.

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The Independent Variable
Little Letter of Nonsense—May 2025

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a single-page, double-sided, black & white zine looking back at April 2025 with an accompanying mini-zine of nonsense, Bumfuzzle, and the third issue of four-headed foofaraw, looking at all the upcoming movies, shows, comics, and albums for June.

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The Independent Variable
Little Letter of Nonsense—Apr 2025

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a single-page, double-sided, black & white zine looking back at April 2025 with an accompanying mini-zine of nonsense, Bumfuzzle, and the second issue of four-headed foofaraw.

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The Independent Variable
Little Letter of Nonsense—Mar 2025

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a single-page, double-sided, black & white zine looking back at March 2025 with an accompanying mini-zine of nonsense, Bumfuzzle, and a preview of an upcoming zine from foofaraw.

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The Independent Variable
Little Letter of Nonsense—Feb 2025

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a single-page, double-sided, black & white zine looking back at February 2025 with an accompanying mini-zine of nonsense, Bumfuzzle.

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The Independent Variable
Little Letter of Nonsense—Jan 2025

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A single-page zine looking back at the month of January 2025

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RADAR
The Fair: A Future in Love drop from RADAR

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The Fair: A Future in Love drop from RADAR

by Keely, Caitlin, and 5 more

$8.88

Every February, we’re reminded how much love has been consumerized and commoditized. So this year, as a palette cleanser, we offer you this short story with a big heart. Words by Lisa Hehnke and Maria Magdalena | Artwork by DomingoB

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EMPOWA
the Artists Way exercises - Notion templates

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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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Avi Solomon
Homage to Apollo 8 & 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell RIP

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Homage to Apollo 8 & 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell RIP

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Avi Solomon
Apollo 11 Homage

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Apollo 11 Homage

by Avi Solomon

Free

My video homage to the historic Apollo 11 voyage to the Moon

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Avi Solomon
NASA Cassini Saturn Footage Demo Reel

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Real footage of Saturn and its rings and moons captured by NASA's Cassini probe

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Avi Solomon
Complete NASA Cassini footage of Saturn’s moon Enceladus

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Compilation of all the spacecraft footage of Saturn's moon Enceladus targeted and captured during the course of NASA's Cassini mission.

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Avi Solomon
Earth swimming in a sea of stars amidst the Milky Way

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We humans need to hold our cosmic situation in mind while dealing with matters on Earth. NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured this grand prospect of Earth swimming in a sea of stars over the course of ten days in April 2019. I have processed the raw footage and remixed it with sounds of the Solar wind and a stellar track by Max Richter.

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Avi Solomon
Galileo Sunspot Animation

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Galileo Sunspot Animation

by Avi Solomon

Free

I have demonstrated that the Sunspots are neither Stars nor permanent materials, and that they are not located at a distance from the Sun but are produced and dissolved upon it in a manner not unlike that of clouds and vapors on the Earth -Galileo Galilei

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Avi Solomon
Terra Luna Sol Monumenta

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Terra Luna Sol Monumenta

by Avi Solomon

Free

What a transit of Earth and Moon across the Sun would look like

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Avi Solomon
Abulafia Shamanicus

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Abulafia Shamanicus

by Avi Solomon

Free

Animating A Medieval Manuscript

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Avi Solomon
Earth from Apollo 15

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Earth from Apollo 15

by Avi Solomon

Free

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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Avi Solomon
Phobos and Earth as seen from the surface of Mars by NASA's Curiosity Rover

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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this view of Earth setting while Phobos, one of Mars' two moons, is rising. It's the first time an image of the two celestial bodies have been captured together from the surface of Mars.

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Avi Solomon
Our Cosmic Situation

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Our Cosmic Situation

by Avi Solomon

Free

NASA Parker Solar Probe footage of Venus and Earth swimming in a sea of stars amidst the Milky Way