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The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet

The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet

Released on The Dark Forest Collective

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.

$10+

42 Zen Tips (Zen AF.  The Official Poster)

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Post-Nasal Drip

Post-Nasal Drip

Released on Exhaler

Post-Nasal Drip Music By Exhaler Filmed, Edited and Produced by Michael Carchidi Creative Director and Camera Operator Leksi Schuchman

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42 Neuroplasticity Tips for a Healthy Brain at Any Age.  (Inspired by Dr. David Eagleman)

42 Neuroplasticity Tips for a Healthy Brain at Any Age. (Inspired by Dr. David Eagleman)

Released on Bloom!

a tiny but mighty collection and printable poster featuring the principles of building a better brain through neuroplasticity - inspired by the published books and work of Dr. David Eagleman

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Assembling the Future: Manufacturing + AI - Baukunst Study Group 004

Assembling the Future: Manufacturing + AI - Baukunst Study Group 004

Released on Baukunst

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.

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TechnoMirage

TechnoMirage

Released on Neuromantics

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.

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[Dis]enchantment: A zine about Esoteric AI by AIxDESIGN & internet teapot (Slow AI Series)

[Dis]enchantment: A zine about Esoteric AI by AIxDESIGN & internet teapot (Slow AI Series)

Released on AIxDESIGN

Why do we approach AI chatbots as modern-day oracles? This issue of the Slow AI Series “[Dis]enchantment: A zine about Esoteric AI” summons 54 pages of magic, divination, folklore, and other arcane ways of knowing to disenchant then re-enchant our relationship with algorithmic systems.

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Nine Creative Meditations

Nine Creative Meditations

Released on Metalabel squad

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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On Making a Living as an Artist (Digital Edition)

On Making a Living as an Artist (Digital Edition)

Released on The Creative Independent

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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Bentoism

Bentoism

Released on The Ideaspace by Yancey Strickler

A wider view of our self-interest. Now Me, Future Me. Now Us, Future Us. A model for a deeper form of living. BEyond Near Term Orientation: Bentoism.

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Simple Sabotage Field Guide: Pocket Edition

Simple Sabotage Field Guide: Pocket Edition

Released on Standard Form Press

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.

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Anonymous Creative Futures 2026

Anonymous Creative Futures 2026

Released on Metalabel squad

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%.

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Spell 001

Spell 001

Released on Spell of the Month

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

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A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

Released on The Dark Forest Collective

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.

$35+

Non-Playable Characters

Non-Playable Characters

Released on LAN Party

'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. ★

$25+

Anonymous Creative Futures Report

Anonymous Creative Futures Report

Released on Metalabel squad

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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The Best Internet Essays 2025

The Best Internet Essays 2025

Released on Essay Architecture

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.

$29

NYC Garbage Season 2: Season Finale

NYC Garbage Season 2: Season Finale

Released on New York City Garbage

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.

$100

Legal Structures for Creative Practices

Legal Structures for Creative Practices

Released on A Thousand Forests

"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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Matriarchy: A Community-Funded Book

Matriarchy: A Community-Funded Book

Released on Nergiz

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

$15+

Exocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits (2025) by Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo

Exocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits (2025) by Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo

Released on Becoming

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

$10

Materials and Processes for an Expanding World: Exhibition Guide

Materials and Processes for an Expanding World: Exhibition Guide

Released on Soft Systems

This exhibition guide published by Soft Systems for Materials and Processes for an Expanding World, presented Dec 11–13, 2025 at Plot, Los Angeles. A visual survey of small works on paper, ephemera, sculpture, and video submitted through the mail by 34 artists. 35 pages, full color, recycled paper, spiral bound, 5.5 × 8.5 inches.

$30

Spell 002

Spell 002

Released on Spell of the Month

Whether you're at a crossroads or lost in the wilds of too many possibilities, this spell conjures a compass from the patterns of your own attention.

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The Beginners Guide to Tiny Products: A Tiny Bundle of Big Ideas for Authors, Artists& Entrepreneurs

The Beginners Guide to Tiny Products: A Tiny Bundle of Big Ideas for Authors, Artists& Entrepreneurs

Released on Bloom!

Tiny Books. Big Business. The beginners guide to writing tiny books, creating tiny products and building your brand, business and bank account with tiny but mighty products in 2026 that will change your life and maybe even change the world. Teach what you know. Do what you love. Wake up the world with your work. Join us!

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Book of Creativity: Free PDF

Book of Creativity: Free PDF

Released on Avi Solomon

Free PDF of my English translation of Sefer Yesira, an ancient Hebrew mystical text that first promulgated the concept of combinatorial creativity.

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Typography — Basics

Typography — Basics

Released on Creative Minds

A practical introduction to typography; from anatomy and spacing to legibility and alignment, for people who want to create type that reads beautifully and feels intentional.

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A Journey into Color and Calm - Graphic Worlds

A Journey into Color and Calm - Graphic Worlds

Released on Keva Epale Studio

A Modern Colouring Book Take a moment to pause and let yourself wander into a world of shapes, patterns, and possibilities. This coloring book is more than just pages to color—it's a space for you to breathe, explore, and create.

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10 Very Short Lessons (and a few simple rules) for Creating a Tiny Course in a Long Weekend

10 Very Short Lessons (and a few simple rules) for Creating a Tiny Course in a Long Weekend

Released on Bloom!

Release notes. 10 very short lessons to create a tiny product in a long weekend in printable PDF format 1 audio with steps (and a private audio feed for AMA and/or questions) 1 visualization in high resolution PNG format Lots of good vibes & creative mojo

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Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD

Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD

Released on Jesse J. Anderson

Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD is your starter guide to understanding your ADHD brain and learning a smarter way to find motivation.

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Astrological cheat sheet zine

Astrological cheat sheet zine

Released on Phase 333

Learn about the moon’s phases, the zodiac and astrological houses so you can understand how the transiting moon affects your personal natal chart.

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surface treasure - issue eleven

surface treasure - issue eleven

Released on Maddie Potocnik

a digital magazine filled with my favorite images & missed connections collected from newyork.craigslist.org in february 2026 ♡

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Applied Imagination

Applied Imagination

Released on postmodern tectonics ™

"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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Tiny Tips, Tools and Templates for Authors, Artists and Entrepreneurs

Tiny Tips, Tools and Templates for Authors, Artists and Entrepreneurs

Released on #Challah!

a tiny but mighty collection of fonts and templates for self published authors, artists and entrepreneurs in 2026. Specifically for Jewish authors, artists and entrepreneurs, these resources are also useful for anyone who is writing a childrens book (or a tiny non fiction book) in 2026

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A meditation: be more like a mushroom

A meditation: be more like a mushroom

Released on Sporesight

Welcome to the Sporesight meditation. You are invited to connect with the world of fungi and experiment with how it feels to be a little bit more like a mushroom. Don’t worry, this is an exercise with no substance involved other than your own imagination. Shall we begin?

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AI for Ants: A zine about Small AI by AIxDESIGN & internet teapot

AI for Ants: A zine about Small AI by AIxDESIGN & internet teapot

Released on AIxDESIGN

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.

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First Futures

First Futures

Released on StudioCone

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.

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The Post-Individual

The Post-Individual

Released on The Dark Forest Collective

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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What Do You See?

What Do You See?

Released on Molly Baker Ragan

Find order in a chaotic world with whatdoyousee.nyc, a participatory web-based archive composed of curiosity, code, and hundreds of photos of everyday New York City.

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Making Sense of Slow AI: A zine about Slow AI Imaginaries by AIxDESIGN & internet teapot

Making Sense of Slow AI: A zine about Slow AI Imaginaries by AIxDESIGN & internet teapot

Released on AIxDESIGN

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.

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AI-Z: Conversations about resistance & genAI

AI-Z: Conversations about resistance & genAI

Released on Peckham Digital - Network Terminal

A zine documenting conversations about resistance from activists outside of technology to translate into modes of resistance against genAI models.

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ON SKIBIDI

ON SKIBIDI

Released on Aidan Walker

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.

$2.67+

Shantell Sans

Shantell Sans

Released on Shantell Martin

Shantell Sans mixes variable axes for Weight, Italic, Informality, and Bounce to deliver a wide array of font styles, from friendly, readable, everyday typographic workhorses to striking, high-energy, experimental styles meant especially for animation. This is the story behind its inspiration and creation.

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Contours of CAD + AI - Baukunst Study Group 002

Contours of CAD + AI - Baukunst Study Group 002

Released on Baukunst

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.

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STRATA Vol. 001: Ten Aesthetics Shaping How We Live Now

STRATA Vol. 001: Ten Aesthetics Shaping How We Live Now

Released on Future Commerce Press

A new annual documenting ten aesthetics forming beneath the surface of everyday life. Read them in the brands we buy, the memes we make, and the objects we collect.

$20

the Artists Way exercises - Notion templates

the Artists Way exercises - Notion templates

Released on EMPOWA

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.

$5

How to Navigate : A Directory of Inspiration

How to Navigate : A Directory of Inspiration

Released on Network Archives

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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IA+Musica - ebook Esp

IA+Musica - ebook Esp

Released on FUTURX

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.

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Institute of Machine Unlearning Zine #3: Select All Images that Make Your Bones Shrivel

Institute of Machine Unlearning Zine #3: Select All Images that Make Your Bones Shrivel

Released on Institute of Machine Unlearning

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.

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