Folding Table Books Co-Op

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Boom and Dust depicts a 40-mile stretch of highway between Midland and Odessa, Texas. This roadway serves as the backbone of the extraction industry in the Permian Basin. We made hundreds of photographs from the back of a pickup truck of the unrelenting scroll of mancamps, pumpjacks, and oil outfitters collectively known as the "Petroplex."

Living Web Institute

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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.

Do Not Research

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Four week intensive course delving into the core ideas and questions explored in the foundational stages of DNR. We will examine artworks, texts, and internet media covering topics: internet-informed identity, political futures, & post-internet art. Facilitated by artist Theresa Tomi Faison via Zoom, SUNDAYS: 10/5, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 1-3:30pm EST

Baukunst

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In our first Study Group, Mycelium as Mode, we set out to inquire about the vast world of mushrooms, exploring the terrain from multiple vantage points — from wellness and investment in psychedelics — to materiality and even, mycelium as a metaphor for building.

The Dark Forest Collective

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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 Thousand Forests

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"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

Do Not Research

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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: 10/6, 10/20, 11/3, 11/17 @ 6:30 - 8:30pm EST

Metalabel squad

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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.

Becoming

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

The Pathless Collective

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

Sublime

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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.

The Dark Forest Collective

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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.

Do Not Research

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4 week intensive course delving into the core ideas and questions explored in the foundational stages of DNR. We will examine artworks, texts, and online media covering: internet-informed identity, political futures, & post-internet art. Facilitated by artist Theresa Tomi Faison via Discord, TUESDAYS 10/7, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28, 6:30-9:00pm EST

Cryptid Soup

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Xenomes are a richly encoded naming system developed for musical scales, or more specifically, 12-tone equal temperament (12-TET) pitch-class sets (which can be intervals, chords, or scales). This book explains the system and provides numerous examples. Written by Qid Love. Foreword by Canadian composer Ian Ring.

FUTURX

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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.

The Creative Independent

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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

EMPOWA

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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.

Bimbo Rhetoric

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Written by Ester Freider ISBN: 979-8-9923515-1-4 Publisher: Bimbo Rhetoric Publishing House Publication Date: May 5, 2025 Pages: 63 pages Language: English

Metalabel squad

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

My First Solo Show That Never Happened

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Creasidence

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Born from a typhoon's devastation in La Union, Philippines, this digital manga zine is a creative act of solidarity. Artists from 6 countries explore the Filipino concept of "kadwa" (true partnership) and document the collective strength. All proceeds will go to the La Union community to purchase a solar-powered community generator and recover.

The Ideaspace by Yancey Strickler

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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.

Other Internet

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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.

August Lamm

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

Metalabel squad

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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.

The Creative Independent

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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.

Neutone Inc.

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The Artist Series is an investigation into the minds of artists and musicians playing with artificial intelligence and new musical instruments.

Chorist

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Two new Chorist tracks; physical zine + digital audio. The zine is printed on the artist's father's computer science homework papers from the early 80's. Limited edition. Free.

The Ideaspace by Yancey Strickler

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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

Morgane Billuart

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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.

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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.

NOW

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Sending loving kindness to all beings, in all directions, everywhere. May all beings be happy. May all beings feel loved. May all beings awaken. May all beings live with presence and peace. May all suffering come to an end. May all beings feel the kindness of strangers. May all beings feel loved and seen. May all beings understand wh

AIxDESIGN

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Why do we approach AI chatbots as modern-day oracles? This issue of the Slow AI Series “[Dis]enchantment: A zine about Esoteric AI” summons 54 pages of magic, divination, folklore, and other arcane ways of knowing to disenchant then re-enchant our relationship with algorithmic systems.

Standard Form Press

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Limited first printing (100) of the 1944 CIA-predecessor manual on everyday resistance. Pocket-sized (4.25"x7") with concealment dust jacket titled Apiculture: Managing Worker Bees & Drones. Learn to "work slowly," "make speeches," and "misunderstand orders" in this historical guide to administrative disruption. Also available as a free PDF.

These Days Magazine

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These Days Magazine presents the final edition of our annual Chicago Artists to Watch feature. This year's class includes m.e.h., Menace4hire, Mike DFG, Mvte, Sparklmami, Teala Vera, The Era & Woes. Read the interviews & check out the photography in our first ever digital zine.

Institute of Machine Unlearning

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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.

Hard Art

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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.

Department of Transformation

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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!)

The Ideaspace by Yancey Strickler

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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.

Becoming

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Official E-book of Christian Nirvana Damato's Multiplication of Organs Manifesto (2025), a book which attempts to, as Franco 'Bifo' Berardi has said, open up a new field of inquiry, perhaps to be called "Dysphoric Studies" a la Paul Preciado.

The Lost Season

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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.

The Creative Independent

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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

Rebecca Clark

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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.

Shantell Martin

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Shantell Sans mixes variable axes for Weight, Italic, Informality, and Bounce to deliver a wide array of font styles, from friendly, readable, everyday typographic workhorses to striking, high-energy, experimental styles meant especially for animation. This is the story behind its inspiration and creation.

Maddie Potocnik

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

IS NOT MUSIC

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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).

The Dark Forest Collective

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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

Network Archives

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This is a free edition that focuses on how to navigate your 'Network Archives 001: A Directory of Inspiration'. It is a curated guide highlighting key themes, insights, and actionable ideas from a selection of the projects to help you explore the directory more deeply. This drop follows the inaugural release from the Network Archives label.