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.

Mean Hand is a typeface made from the average of thousands of individual samples in the EMNIST dataset: 814,255 handwritten characters gathered by the US government in the early 1990s to automate Census form processing. The font covers the full alphabet and digits across nine weights.

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.

Bringing together leading thinkers across technology, philosophy, and law, this collection examines how human agency, democracy, and freedom can flourish in the algorithmic age.

Channel Surfing is a web series diving into the digital collections of Are.na super-users. CS002 will reflect on all things FRICTION: technological (in)efficiency, neo-Luddism, cognitive offloading, convenience culture, and more...

"Who Controls the Narrative?" is a guide for assessing bias in media about sex workers. It was written and created by Delilah Saul, veteran sex worker and founder of Outlaw Media. 100% of your payment for this e-book supports my upcoming documentary about media bias against sex workers!

A zine that wants you to think about the word "tree" as a verb. Its actions speak louder than our words. Why trees matter, change the common point of view & ask not ‘what is a tree but ‘who is this tree’.

Instructions on how to ferment and dry your own seeds, plus a resource list! Deepen your relationship to the food you eat and grow by learning how to save seeds for next season.

A zine about life cycles, compost, and letting go.

A zine about the death divinity Santa Muerte, who has become known as a protector of queer and trans people, sex workers, and others who live on the margins.

A zine about the Afro-Palestinian freedom fighter Fatima Bernawi. Prints double-sided with a poster on one side.

A zine featuring a conversation between Bitter Kalli and Palestinian seed-saver, environmentalist, and artist Vivien Sansour.

Challah Back! The tiny but mighty printable planner for authors, artists and entrepreneurs who really, really (really) want to get sh*t done, but usually watch Dexter re-runs instead. (PS - skip the season with Jimmy Smits, it ends badly for everyone)

A collection of eight anonymous bots requests I found on the internet, along with the JSON character files written to fulfill them. This release is part of a documentary film, “Intimacy when the other side is a variable” made in collaboration with artist Kiana Fernandez. Film coming summer 2026.

The idea incubator and brand accelerator for inspirational authors, artists and enlightened entrepreneurs with a need for speed. In this cohort - YOU will write a tiny book, create a tiny product or launch a tiny course that builds your brand, business and ultimately.....your bank account in only 5 days.

A Metalabel x LCF Futures Film Screening on 18.6 looking at the future of looksmaxxing, transhumanism, digital intimacy, ai companionship, deepfakes, consent and authorship in the age of AI.

Last winter, I held three dinners about Miranda July’s All Fours. These are the conversation prompts. Feel free to print them for your dinner, about All Fours, or any books for that matter.

Tiny books. Big ideas. The future is tiny (and we're betting it all on small). Private podcast & invite to upcoming July workshop for authors, artists and entrepreneurs. Teach what you know. Do what you love. Wake up the world with your work. Join us.

The Girl is a paradox, at once hypervisible and impossible to define. She is not just an aesthetic persona, but an active force...

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.

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

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

The future needs wildly curious people. This is the call of The Quest Life: A Manifesto - an illustrated zine with 12 principles for staying creatively alive.

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

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.

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 tiny but mighty collection of printable yoga cards (and PDF) for beginners, believers and the curious but not yet convinced.

Essays on Art, Technology, Society and the Environment

This is 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 (second printing)

We’re Cooked! explores how communities, cultural workers, organizers, artists, and institutions are developing more adaptive and collaborative ways of working together. Using the cookbook as a conceptual framework, this publication gathers reflections, practices, provocations, and recommendations that emerged through relational research.

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

Quiet Media is a print-first publication founded on the simple belief that our attention is our most valuable resource, and it should be treated with care. Through the perspective of 15 contributors, the inaugural issue explores what changes when we stop optimizing for speed and volume, and start designing for depth and meaning instead.

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. Physical copies are sold out for now. Fruiting late summer 2026 🌸

5 coloured threads on 100% cotton baby cord hat Inspired by Thismia Neptunis, a rare, subterranean flower that doesn’t photosynthesize. Instead, it lives in symbiosis with soil fungi, drawing energy from plants it never sees. A hidden life, quietly extraordinary.

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.

"All That Surrounds Us" is a collection of creative writings from fifteen members of NEW INC’s Y12 Social Architecture cohort.

'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. ★

Hold/Unfold is a portable gesture of connection and collectivity made for embodied spaces: the underground dance floor, the heat of a summer gathering, anywhere gesture and proximity shape experience. Each blade an abstract body: folded, a single figure; opened, a chain of interlinked forms in embrace, circling a shared center.

Tonii amulets are wearable objects of magic, created to connect us to unseen realms, chosen intentions, and the values we carry. Each amulet can be worn as an analog object and activated through augmented reality (AR), opening a ritual space for re-centering, protection, and reclaiming personal power.

Each Bioverse hat is a unique, wearable artwork, crafted individually on a home embroidery machine in NYC by Tin Nguyen. The process allows for the use of many colors, making every hat unique.

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.

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.

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.

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%.

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.

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.

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!)

a foofaraw anthology—don't go making a huge deal about it, that's what we're here for...