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Audio version of my English translation of Sefer Yesira, an ancient Hebrew mystical text that first promulgated the concept of combinatorial creativity. Important not just for having a creative effect on major historical figures, but also for a seminal influence germinating the seeds of modern logic and computing into the looming Golem of AI today.
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Exocapitalism challenges the critical orthodoxy on how it understands and talks about capitalism today.
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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
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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.
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DJ Meisner (b. 1997) is a visual artist based in San Francisco, California. This volume features works created between 2020 - 2024. 48 pages, 8 x 10”.
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The original essay, ideas, and research that inspired Metalabel, including: — Unpublished research and thinking from May 2021 — The initial manifesto, first published in February 2022 — Further research, first published in October 2022 Preserved and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.
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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
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This was the manifesto that launched the time machine.
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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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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! Includes a tiny book of big love (on Amazon, via a link in the Notion template - 100% free) Beta access to our new app (coming June 19)
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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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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. Orders ship by October 1, 2025.
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10 cheeky, irreverent rules for authors, artists and entrepreneurs.
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a small digital magazine filled with my favorite images & missed connections collected from newyork.craigslist.org in june 2025 ♡
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a small digital magazine filled with my favorite images & missed connections collected from newyork.craigslist.org in july 2025 ♡
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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.
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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.
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Some theories and practical approaches that might help you think about how you think about ideas.
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"A lightly researched field guide for thinking about and/or making creative things" These are observations from real working life, a collective twenty years of our work as professionals in a wide range of fields — architecture, advertising, design, innovation strategy, journalism, and software engineering.
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FANDOM is a communal publication which features critical and experimental short-form responses to the theme of fandom from a variety of upcoming writers and artists.
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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
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Hard Imagination invites Venture Capitalists to see a world beyond an extractive mindset, to create pathways for capital allocation that are not self-terminating Limited run of 23 bound copies or download the PDF for free
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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.
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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)
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FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT presents the JavaScript-based, generative art collection of the same name by artist Maya Man.
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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.
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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.
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@Metalabel. A thank you letter, to all the people who have helped me to be here <3.
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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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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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The Autonomous Worlds Network’s first publication offers a new vocabulary for a new era of worlding.
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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.
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The JUNTE Field Kit emphasizes a sensorial research approach— focusing particularly on listening, seeing and touching on the land. JUNTE is an arts, land and culture project founded in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico by a group of local and international artists.
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Nopales is a modular lamp designed to be playfully assembled from a single printed circuit board. Inspired by Mexican landscapes, this playful design invites you to create your very own luminous garden.
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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.
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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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A song inspired by Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Work #20, with a reel of video synthesizer visuals.
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Creasidence is a global accelerator in the creative industries, based in Tokyo, Japan. While supporting creators through educational workshops focused on the release of creative projects, we’re building a global community of creatives from over 25 countries. This collaborative comic Manifesto represents our shared vision for the creative future.
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To celebrate fifteen years of operations, label friends and family select their favourites from the New Weird Australia catalogue. The 29-track selections run the gamut from the first compilation released in 2009 to the most recent collection from the 'transient ambient' group Worlds Only.
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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.
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Maya Martinez's theatrical writings, in one limited edition full-length book.
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A limited edition zine of photographs and monologues centered around the horrors of childhood. Photos and text by Alex Osman
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It all started when "THE EARTHLINGS" occupied the green ball, full of diversity, gigantic land, unlimited opportunities. Then they started learning, unlearning, relearning their environment, creating a livable place. They evolved from apes to the Sapiens. But this evolution came at a cost of the blue-green ball of life - THE EARTH.
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It was the [REDACTED] of times. It was the [REDACTED] of times.
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A 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 like internet-informed identity, political futures, and post-internet art. Facilitated by artist Theresa Tomi Faison via Zoom Sundays: 8/3, 8/10, 8/17, 8/24, 1-3pm EST
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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.
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