'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. ★

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

"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

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.

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

Our third anthology book. DNR began as a private Discord server gathered to discuss memetic tactics and emergent political trends.

Do Not Research is a platform for art, writing, internet culture and beyond.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Whoa, Vol. 1 – Conversations To Make You Feel Human A limited edition print publication of 100 copies exclusively sold at Metalabel (for American collectors), and an unlimited digital edition worldwide. Also included: private podcast and YouTube feeds of each unedited conversation. By Sublime and Printernet.

After an entire 365 days, the original New York City Garbage cubes are back for the final drop of Season 2. Last year's 50 sold out quickly, so we've added a few more to the pile (65) to give more folks the chance to give the gift of Garbage this year.

a home for those without a home to return to♡ ilysm♡

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.

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 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.

One way our world could go from here.

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).

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.

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!

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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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.

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.