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parisbynight
Paris by Night
Planet Blip in New York City!

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Planet Blip in New York City!

by Young Americans Challenging High Technology

Free+

An evening of channel-flipping, alien television, and gaming against the grain with Blippo+ co-creators YACHT at Metalabel HQ in New York.

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Nergiz
Matriarchy: A Community-Funded Book

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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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Metalabel squad
Nine Creative Meditations

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Nine Creative Meditations

by Yancey Strickler, IY, and 1 more

Free

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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The Dark Forest Collective
A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

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A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

by Mindy Seu, Esra Soraya Padgett, and 27 more

$35+

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. More info on the lecture performance tour in Fall 2025 below! SHIPPING IN OCTOBER.

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postmodern tectonics ™
Applied Imagination

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Applied Imagination

by postmodern tectonics ™

Free

"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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Standard Form Press
Simple Sabotage Field Guide: Pocket Edition

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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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Sublime
Whoa, Vol. 2: Conversations on AI × Creativity

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Whoa, Vol. 2: Conversations on AI × Creativity

by Gabriel, Sari, and 2 more

$40+

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.

hardart
Hard Art
Daddio! (A Novel for the Climate Confused)

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Daddio! (A Novel for the Climate Confused)

by Alex Lockwood, Joshua Knowles, and 3 more

$9+

A man drives his elderly evil-tempered father to a funeral. They never arrive as their dysfunctional dynamic unravels on a journey overshadowed by a climate-ravaged future. Daddio! is a portrayal of the crisis in climate and democracy, a parable for our times – but don’t worry, it’s a comedy!

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culturehacker
culturehacker #001

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culturehacker #001

by Lance Weiler

$10

Various work by Lance Weiler (aka culturehacker) an artist and storyteller working in film, theatre, games and code.

athousandforests
A Thousand Forests
Legal Structures for Creative Practices

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Legal Structures for Creative Practices

by A Thousand Forests, Enrique H, and 2 more

Free

"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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Rebecca Clark
Book of Hours: An Artist's Book for the Anthropocene

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BOOK of HOURS is a free 236-page PDF intended to be viewed in 2-page format on a handheld digital device. Taking the idea of the medieval prayer book into the virtual age, it provides light but also underscores our vast separation from the natural and spiritual worlds.

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Creasidence
Creasidence Webtoon #01

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Creasidence Webtoon #01

by Nelli, Kim being keun, and 2 more

Free

The Creasidence Webtoon — a collaborative project born from our 2-day online workshop. Artists are expanding the Extora character’s world and story arcs, which began in Creasidence Comics Zine #04, by experimenting with modern web storytelling techniques adapted for scrolling immersion. Dive into the Creative Cosmic Cat Travelling saga!

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Wonder Books
Theatrics

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Theatrics

by Wonder, and Maya Martinez

$20

Maya Martinez's theatrical writings, in one limited edition full-length book.

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Chorist
Power Chords

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Power Chords

by Chadwick Wood

Free

Two new Chorist tracks; physical zine + digital audio. The zine is printed on the artist's father's computer science homework papers from the early 80's. Limited edition. Free.

donotresearch
Do Not Research
DNR Fall 25: Technology Criticism

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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

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New York City Garbage
DOUBLE DROP: Limited Editions from the NYC Pride 🏳️‍🌈 + Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest 🌭

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Season 2 of New York City Garbage continues with the first-ever DOUBLE DROP — two limited editions of 25. Collected from the 56th annual NYC Pride March 🏳️‍🌈 and the legendary Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest 🌭 in Coney Island, these cubes capture the spirit, spectacle, and joy of New York’s iconic summer traditions. See you at noon!

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FUTURX
La gentrificación digital x José Heinz

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La gentrificación digital x José Heinz

by Nicolás Madoery, and José Heinz

Free+

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.

donotresearch
Do Not Research
Do Not Research 2021-2022

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Do Not Research is a “detestable band of washed up millennial seapunks” and “zoomers obsessed with Mark Fisher”. It is also a highly active online community that publishes writing, visual art, internet culture research and more.

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Do Not Research
Do Not Research 2022-2023

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Do Not Research is a platform for art, writing, internet culture and beyond.

donotresearch
Do Not Research
Do Not Research 2024

Available

Our third anthology book. DNR began as a private Discord server gathered to discuss memetic tactics and emergent political trends.

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Neutone Inc.
Neutone Artist Series

Available

The Artist Series is an investigation into the minds of artists and musicians playing with artificial intelligence and new musical instruments.

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Last Human Collective
LAST HUMAN #003

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LAST HUMAN #003

by Lance Weiler

Free

The third issue of our open prototyping zine dives into how LAST HUMAN moves from the museum to the classroom. Inspired by Fluxus and John Cage’s experimental classes at The New School, students at Columbia DSL turn learning itself into performance - building haunted interfaces, masks, and rituals that blur the line between human and machine.

spellofthemonth
Spell of the Month
Spell 001

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Spell 001

by Jordanisgreen, and Queen of Swords

Free

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

darkforest
The Dark Forest Collective
Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading

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Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading

by Nadia Asparouhova, and Leïth Benkhedda

$10+

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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The Dark Forest Collective
The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet

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The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet

by Yancey Strickler, Peter Limberger, and 9 more

$10+

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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UNLABELED Magazine
UNLABELED Issue 4

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UNLABELED Issue 4

by Jada Milazzo

Free

UNLABELED Issue 4 focused on the ideals of sustainability, intuitive creating, spirituality, and the exploration of identity through art and creative endeavors.

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FUTURX
IA+Musica - ebook Esp

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IA+Musica - ebook Esp

by Nicolás Madoery

Free

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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THE STOA
Worldview Studies: To See the World Is to Shape It

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Worldview Studies: To See the World Is to Shape It

by Peter Limberger, Rina Nicolae, and 1 more

$0.01

When the culture war ends, what begins? Join us for a live, experimental series studying the worldviews that are actively shaping the world. This is a four-week experience happening at The Stoa. Oct 17 to Nov 7 @ 12 pm ET. Choose your price (recommended $40, but feel free to contribute more or less). Attendance at all sessions is not required.

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

Available

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

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ForTheArtOnly
Is It Art?

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Is It Art?

by glbkst

Free

This is art, Is it art? No that's not art, Everything can be art! that's the chorus of the song

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

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“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

hardart
Hard Art
THIS IS NOT A BLUEPRINT #1 : By process of invitation

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THIS IS NOT A BLUEPRINT #1 : By process of invitation

by Sophie Cowen, and Alex Lockwood

Free

In late 2022, a handful of artists, scientists, movement builders, musicians, and democratic innovators came together to explore making a future based on care and freedom. The process we've called Hard Art began. This series shows how it all started, the frameworks we're using to collaborate, and how it's going.

d-o-t
Department of Transformation
DOT Cookbook Entry: Troika

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DOT Cookbook Entry: Troika

by Dept of Transformation

Free

A quick-fire method for generating feedback on individual challenges in a small group adapted from Liberating Structures.

embracevariety
Embrace Variety
Embrace Variety Vol.01

Available

Embrace Variety Vol.01 contains three guides about the core and often overlooked aspects of visual branding: personality, design taboos, and the North Star. It is for everyone who wants to give their brand an image that stands out, stands the time and resonates. And for those who want to take better control of the branding process.

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Life Crumbs Publishing
Oops I Just Died

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Oops I Just Died

by Michael Young

$4+

A satirical death admin workbook. For all the tedious yet important matters that will need addressing in the event of your death. From the big things all the way down to that final nail in the coffin.

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Other Internet
Other Internet 2018–2024

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Other Internet 2018–2024

by Toby Shorin, Laura Lotti, and 2 more

$40

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.

instituteofmachineunlearning
Institute of Machine Unlearning
Living Room Sessions Zine #1: Cosmic Sans Software

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Cosmic Sans Software is the first zine from the Institute of Machine Unlearning. Born from a workshop, it brings together collages made collectively as playful, critical detours into how AI is pictured and imagined and how we see, feel, and unlearn with machines.

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The Whitney Review LLC
The Whitney Review (ISSUE 003)

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The Whitney Review (ISSUE 003)

by Whitney Mallett

$10

The third issue of The Whitney Review of New Writing (Spring/Summer 2024) is about SURFACE, FRICTION, INHERITANCE, and DEBTS. In less than a year, The Whitney Review has proven a taste-making force in literary criticism. Each issue collects original essays, author interviews, and book reviews (plus offbeat reviews of new writing in other forms).

lostseason
The Lost Season
The Emergency Was Curiosity

Few left

The Emergency Was Curiosity

by Christie George

Free+

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.

darkforest
The Dark Forest Collective
The Post-Individual

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The Post-Individual

by Yancey Strickler, IY, and 1 more

Free+

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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conley creative studio
DIY Website Copy Refresh Guide for Nonprofits + Artists

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This website revival plan is a foundational sweep that teaches you how to DIY better website copy & UX — everything from copywriting essentials to content design and SEO for nonprofits — by a seasoned copywriter for brands like Vimeo, ilovecreatives, and Constant Contact (to name a handful).

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XiaoTian
Thought and Memory

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Thought and Memory

by Serena Eom, Jason Zhang, and 4 more

$45+

A collection of thoughts and memories that sit in the back of our minds—buried but never dead. They have shaped or influenced us in some way, whether positive or negative it simply exists.

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EMPOWA
the Artists Way exercises - Notion templates

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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.

hardart
Hard Art
Hard Imagination

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Hard Imagination

by Sophie Cowen, David Johnston, and 1 more

Free+

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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objects of
The War of the Worlds Did Not Take Place

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The War of the Worlds Did Not Take Place

by Nick Susi, and Domingo Beta

Free+

A century-old myth. Aliens, war and magic. What do they reveal about our modern era of technology and media? The War of the Worlds Did Not Take Place is a 24-page tabloid newspaper created by Nick Susi with visual objects by Domingo Beta. Debuted at FWB FEST25, with an original score by VÉRITÉ.

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Sublime
Whoa, Vol. 1: Conversations To Make You Feel Human

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Whoa, Vol. 1: Conversations To Make You Feel Human

by Sari, Alex Dobrenko, and 2 more

$30+

Whoa, Vol. 1 – Conversations To Make You Feel Human A limited edition print publication of 100 copies exclusively sold at Metalabel (for American collectors), and an unlimited digital edition worldwide. Also included: private podcast and YouTube feeds of each unedited conversation. By Sublime and Printernet.

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Metalabel squad
Anonymous Creative Futures Report

Few left

Anonymous Creative Futures Report

by Rayna, IY, and 4 more

Free+

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.

tci
The Creative Independent
On dealing with creative anxiety (digital)

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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