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.

Feverish online imagery merges with a traditional symbol of Dutch heritage. Delft Pol/der Tiles join the contemporary with the historical and the high and low of culture.

A field guide to how blockchain and AI are dissolving traditional firms and creating new networked organizations. By Kevin Owocki, Daniel Stringer & Daniel Ospina — a blueprint for how capital, coordination, and work evolve when technology collapses the cost of trust. Digital editions deliver immediately. Print editions ship next business day.

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.

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.

One way our world could go from here.

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. UPDATE: Due to shipping delays, USA-orders will ship by early-Dec; international-orders are shipping now.

'Non-Playable Characters' is a collection of essays, short stories, interviews, and visuals that explores the figure of the NPC as a cultural symbol, internet trope, social mirror, and conceptual vessel. ★ PRE-ORDER NOW. Shipping January 2026. ★

NEW EPUB VERSION: Exocapitalism challenges the critical orthodoxy on how it understands and talks about capitalism today.

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).

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.

A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man is a dizzying descent into digital madness, where one man's screen addiction and artistic ambitions collide in a genre-bending exploration of love, technology, and the disintegration of the modern mind. It's the first ever long-form screenshot.

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

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?

A cookbook zine featuring recipes, essays, and artwork from a community of LGBTQ+ chefs, writers, and artists. All proceeds go to queer mutual aid organizations!

ever wanted to rep your definitely healthy relationship with your computer?? introducing... 𝔦 ❤ 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔭𝔲𝔱𝔢𝔯 bumper stickers !

An open conversation tracing how the generative paradigm reshapes the creative spirits.

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

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First Futures is a free, 4-hour virtual workshop that makes futures design accessible to everyone. Learn practical tools to spot change, map consequences, design speculative products, and create artefacts that challenge the status quo.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

A zine for anyone interested in Chicago history, Haitian-American identity, Black-Native solidarity, and public memory. A challenge to the celebration of Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable as the founder of Chicago via a look at how narratives about him obscure the balances of power in his time.

An access to the Creasidence Online Workshop.

To mark our 30th anniversary, we’re launching a 2026 wall calendar! Featuring artworks in Rhizome’s ArtBase ranging from digital love letters to “networked” portraits, internet holidays, and important milestones in Rhizome's history.

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.

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.

A book that examines the intensifying form of totalitarianism grounded in the quiet background logic of contemporary technology.

"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

Explore 12 environments that represent archived segments of a primordial backend to a simulated world.

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

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.

Source Material Studio presents Stillness is a Move, the first publication in a new series exploring visual culture and creative practice. This edition introduces Stillness Mode, a developing framework that reflects on how images behave within contemporary conditions shaped by speed and constant motion.

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.

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

The clock is ticking, but panic is optional. The Deadline Candle transforms your most dreaded moments into sacred ritual. Because who among us doesn’t need a good kick to remind us how little time we have on this rock? Burn time: 3-4 hours. The Deadline Candle is a limited-edition merch drop from sublime.app

At the core of this project is a translation of “Marxist Islam or Islamic Marxism,” a groundbreaking text written by Bizhan Jazani during his imprisonment in the 1970s under the Shah’s oppressive regime. Translated by a GPT modelled on Jazani's writings, and edited by Parham Ghalamdar.