An anthology of 13 essays from the 2025 Essay Architecture Prize. 100% of royalties go to the writers, the judges, and the 2026 prize pool.

ON SKIBIDI is the first in-depth critical examination of Skibidi Toilet. Based off a 3M+ view TikTok series analyzing the YouTube Shorts, this pamphlet seeks to ground Skibidi within its historical moment and use it to illuminate the uncanny configurations of self and screen that define digitality today.

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

The original essay, ideas, and research that inspired Metalabel, including: — Unpublished research and thinking from May 2021 — The initial manifesto, first published in February 2022 — Further research, first published in October 2022 Preserved and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.

Explore Britain's iconic brutalist architecture by immersing yourself in sound and vision. Photographs by Jo Underhill Music by Carl Woodcroft

'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. ★

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.

What if AI didn’t run on Silicon Valley logic? Making Sense of Slow AI, compiles 40 pages of eclectic stories on Small, Esoteric, and Ancestral AI – inviting you to think small, make it magical, and plan for the past.

Bigger isn’t always better. What could we make with AI if scale wasn’t an objective? The 38-page zine “AI for Ants: A zine about Small AI” draws inspiration from the degrowth movement, climate justice, and low-tech to re-imagine AI that is locally-rooted and more attuned to our natural world.

One way our world could go from here.

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 girl's bedroom story for the vanishing second internet, this .pdf is a collectible scrap taken from an ongoing confessional prose-poetry project. it is for the girl and her shadow. it should be read alone at 4am, or opened and discarded like an inexpensive gift.

Channel Surfing is a monthly web series diving into the digital collections of Are.na super-users. Each month, join host Firuza as she invites 2 of her favourite Are.na collectors to showcase a channel of their choosing, and reflect on why resonant ideas stick.

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 Discord, SUNDAYS: 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 1-3:00pm EST

"Alloentity" names a deeply human experience: the relational dimension of identity, the self as something continuously negotiated, never quite fixed. Explored through some of the earliest synthesized portraits created with a fine-tuned generative model, alongside quotes from a century of thinkers including Sylvia Wynter, Zadie Smith, and Carl Jung.

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.

An archive of the TechnoMirage event series, bringing together exhibitions, talks and artist interviews that examine the illusion of progress projected by AI and exploring how creative practitioners can reclaim agency through exhibitions, discourses, and practices that shape more equitable relationships with emerging technologies.

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 Discord,TUESDAYS: 3/3, 3/10, 3/17,3/24, 6:30-8:30pmEST

Print edition of my English translation of Sefer Yesira, an ancient Hebrew mystical text that first promulgated the concept of combinatorial creativity. You can buy the print edition for $221 via the Blurb link in the release notes. I have provided a free PDF of the entire book and mp3 audio of the translated text via Metalabel.

Something is emerging. After death comes a rebirth: that is the promise of impermanence. In the mist of darkness a new world is not only possible, she is on her way. The Second Renaissance Magazine's first issue on Impermanence shows the voice of a community making sense of the world through art, poetry, essays and personal stories.

Free Trade is the second zine from the Institute of Machine Unlearning. Created during a public collage session, it gathers fragments, fears, jokes, and quiet refusals to explore what AI feels like from the inside of everyday life, where attention becomes currency and imagination becomes resistance.

Cities should build utopia. Nations should let them. Residents should benefit from them.

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

Select All Images That Make Your Bones Shrivel is the third zine from the Institute of Machine Unlearning. Created through public experiments and participatory workshops, it gathers CAPTCHAs that refuse recognition and stretch a small security interface into a collective exercise in critical play.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

nine piano ballads for the end of october

3 songs from college

A Four-Panel Comics Zine by Creasidence, created in an online workshop by 5 artists. Using the kishotenketsu structure, we explore storytelling beyond conflict, embracing surprise, openness, and creative freedom in four panel limits.

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.

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

Zen AF. Wake up already, why don't you.

a tiny book about a big experience

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.

Our second book was a strange one, some kind of amalgamation of a lore-dump and a cosmological manifesto. It's now available to read as an e-book.

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

Cover: Scott McElwee (Remake). Features: Artegios Distribución, Fortuyn: On-Hollands, Melania, Meta’s ad restrictions, The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru, no-fly year. Festivals: IFFR 2026, Kolkata People’s Film Festival 2026. Columns: What‘s in My Bag (Katy Scoggin), What‘s on My Desk (Daniel Garber), Legal FAQ: Production Insurance, Screen Time.

Presets, templates, and automated processes shape how images look, move, and circulate. This three-week online workshop examines those defaults and experiments with working beyond them. Taught by antonio dimovski & honeygal with guest speaker redactedcut. Fridays 12–2pm est, 4/3, 4/10, and 4/17

Members of the Baukunst collective, startup founders, and guest experts, including leaders from manufacturing giants like NVIDIA, Flex, Tesla, Rivian, and Apple, share a deep dive on one of this decade's most important issues: how AI is shifting manufacturing, employment, and the shape of human work.

42 stoic life quotes to remind you how to live well. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – 65 AD) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, and playwright — one of the most influential minds of the ancient world. His Letters to Lucilius, written in the final years of his life, remain among the most personal and practical works of philosophy ever written.

Baukunst explores how emerging AI techniques have the potential to revolutionize computer aided design in industrial design, engineering, construction, virtual environments, and beyond. We worked in collaboration to form a picture of what the future of engineering design software might look like and how it might in turn shape the world around us.

Esta publicación combina exploración, reflexiones y una guía práctica con herramientas de uso práctico. Propone una visión integral y crítica sobre cómo la IA está transformando las formas de creación y producción musical, ofreciendo un recorrido por el contexto, los usos y los desafíos éticos y legales que conlleva.

Economic precarity is up. Market demands are too. People are drowning in digital overload. Political threats loom. The second Anonymous Creative Futures survey shares what 300+ anon artists and creators feel about this moment, their words 100%.

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

"A Few Essays on Taste" is a collection of essays on fashion, trends, and culture written by Ruby Justice Thelot in 2024.