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Joined Metalabel 10/26/2025
ideaspace
The Ideaspace by Yancey Strickler
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

Collector #212

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.

ideaspace
The Ideaspace by Yancey Strickler
The Post-Individual (Open Edition)

The Post-Individual (Open Edition)

by Yancey Strickler, and IY

Collector #231

An exploration of individuality after the internet. The Post-Individual includes: — The Post Individual essay — An audio recording by the author — A video introduction — Research notes, early drafts, and slides

squad
Metalabel
Anonymous Creative Futures Report

Anonymous Creative Futures Report

by Rayna, IY, and 4 more

Collector #982

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.

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

Collector #385

Exocapitalism challenges the critical orthodoxy on how it understands and talks about capitalism today.

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

Collector #149

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.

athousandforests
A Thousand Forests
Legal Structures for Creative Practices

Legal Structures for Creative Practices

by A Thousand Forests, Enrique H, and 2 more

Collector #1167

"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

aixdesign
AIxDESIGN
Pasts, Presents, Futures: A zine about Ancestral AI by AIxDESIGN & internet teapot

Collector #71

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?

peckhamdigital
Peckham Digital - Network Terminal
AI-Z: Conversations about resistance & genAI

AI-Z: Conversations about resistance & genAI

by Identity 2.0, and danielle paterson

Collector #50

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

l00bi
L00bi
LOOBTOPIA  𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕚𝕝𝕞

Collector #84

Here is a reality ~ 𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕓𝕥𝕠𝕡𝕚𝕒. This is the film. Sillyfunsilly visuals, cynicism, narcissism, avatars and music. (We are camouflaging Loobi's aching emptiness, as she endlessly searches for a sense of 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦/𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐚/𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞.) Loobtopia is fickle, noncommittal and vapid. IT IS SUCH FUN. W3lc0m3 Fr13Nd$. ᴛꜱ&ᴄꜱ ᴀᴘᴘʟʏ.

l00bi
L00bi
*ENDLESSITY* 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕚𝕝𝕞

*ENDLESSITY* 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕚𝕝𝕞

by Ruby Bailey, Open Secret, and 2 more

Collector #63

Here is a re:re:reality ~ This is the film - ENDLESSITY. Set in no-place 2 empty_world_empty_ai_fantasy_world of L00bi’s pixelated dreams. Thisss one is heaven. This one is ethereality limbo dissolve. L00bi’s aching emptiness is no longer scattered - she knows what she wants(!) How to become nothing |-|3|_|>, my friend, let me go |-|0//\3.

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

Collector #82

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.

granitegarden
Granite Garden
Granite Garden Digital Album

Collector #13

On this project Granite Garden wants to meet you where you’re at, and walk alongside you into a new, more vibrant reality. One where the darkest and brightest moments in life are both held and cherished. This is our debut album, released May 10th, 2025.

becomingpress
Becoming
Semiotics of the End: Essays on Capitalism & the Apocalypse (2025) by Alessandro Sbordoni

Collector #138

“To quote Alessandro Sbordoni: ‘as the end gets nearer, more is yet to come'. So maybe we already live (in) the end of the world, an end which stretches on endlessly, with no possible resolution." — Slavoj Žižek

becomingpress
Becoming
Affects & Dreams: a Manual for Becoming (2023)

Collector #44

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.

donotresearch
Do Not Research
DNR Fall 25: Technology Criticism

Collector #190

A four week intensive to familiarize participants with core texts and issues in the debate over the role of technology in society, its politics, and future. Mondays: 10/6, 10/20, 11/3, 11/17 @ 6:30 - 8:30pm EST