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An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators.
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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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Some theories and practical approaches that might help you think about how you think about ideas.
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A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man is a dizzying descent into digital madness, where one man's screen addiction and artistic ambitions collide in a genre-bending exploration of love, technology, and the disintegration of the modern mind. It's the first ever long-form screenshot.
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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 Zoom, SUNDAYS: 10/5, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 1-3:30pm EST
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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.
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4 week intensive course delving into the core ideas and questions explored in the foundational stages of DNR. We will examine artworks, texts, and online media covering: internet-informed identity, political futures, & post-internet art. Facilitated by artist Theresa Tomi Faison via Discord, TUESDAYS 10/7, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28, 6:30-9:00pm EST
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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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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.
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In our first Study Group, Mycelium as Mode, we set out to inquire about the vast world of mushrooms, exploring the terrain from multiple vantage points — from wellness and investment in psychedelics — to materiality and even, mycelium as a metaphor for building.
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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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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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Various work by Lance Weiler (aka culturehacker) an artist and storyteller working in film, theatre, games and code.
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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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Exocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits (2025) by Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo
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Exocapitalism challenges the critical orthodoxy on how it understands and talks about capitalism today.
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On the Creative Life: Conversations Toward a New Creative Era
by Yancey Strickler, and Joshua Citarella
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Artist Joshua Citarella and writer Yancey Strickler spoke weekly about their creative practices for the "New Creative Era" podcast. This book edits those discussions into a collection offering a new perspective on the creative life. Available July 1.
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P.P.P.P.P.P. (People! Practice Participating in Participatory Projects, Please.) by Naoco Wowsugi, 2023 “Why are artists always seen as the leaders or organizers? Why can’t you be an artist by being a participant?” —Naoco Wowsugi
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Unwritten is a collection of stories and essays for those rewriting the rules of work and life, proving there are infinite ways to matter.
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Created in just 4 days by 20 artists, this zine is the result of the first Creasidence Comics Workshop in Tokyo — an international program uniting visual storytellers to create a playful journey through Harajuku, page by page in collaboration with mentors. Exhibited and released as a limited edition physical comic book at SOMSOC Gallery.
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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.
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A heartfelt realisation/ reflection/ reality? Towards the little lonely life, we all live in one or the other phases. Let's acknowledge the slumpy sluggish reality.
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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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Limited edition gtalks! radio steel wire metal keychain. A four-leaf clover logo with ear-shaped petals, tuning into گۇل (flower). Represents a digital movement curating conversations and community in the evolving landscape of art.
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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.
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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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Class Fantasy is an action RPG card game that pairs fantasy character classes with political ideologies. The game accommodates 2 - 12 players. Your goal is to defeat other characters in battle and achieve utopia.
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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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Becoming Press is coming to Venice to celebrate its 10th book—RSVP here to join us for a series of talks and presentations featuring a surprising number of our collaborators. Everything will be filmed, and will be developed into an online lecture series and documentary. See the program below or head to our website or instagram for more.
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"Body Images" explores how photography, editing, and publishing technologies have influenced beauty culture from 1839 through the present day.
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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.
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Our third anthology book. DNR began as a private Discord server gathered to discuss memetic tactics and emergent political trends.
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New World Order: The Return of Hard Power and Soft Beliefs is a 35-page research memo about what happens when power, infrastructure and ideology collide. A manual for anyone trying to make sense of the present, New World Order contains ideas, context and language to participate in shaping the world that emerges in front of our eyes.
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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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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
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Will we still be asking people to like and subscribe in 10 years? "After The Creator Economy" explores constructive alternatives for the ways we produce, distribute, and monetize creative work online. Co-edited by Austin Robey (Metalabel) and Severin Matusek (co—matter), this release preserves and digitally reissues the zine.
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A zine published by The Creative Independent, compiling quotes, excerpts, and recommendations from working artists, all gathered from our archive. Topics covered include always looking for better ways to express yourself, finding your path, creating work in your own voice, following your curiosity, and more.
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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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Unlock the Secrets to Intentional Branding and Storytelling with these short visual treats of insights.
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"Workshop of Workshops" by P. Krishnamurthy, explores various organizational structures—studio, gallery, school, therapy, and temple—analyzing their advantages and disadvantages in fostering creativity, collaboration, and individual development. PK proposes a "new workshop" model that to merge the best aspects of these formats.
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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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Focuses on gender norms and fluidity and how one's gender identity can impact fashion and one's artistic approach.
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Inspire by the influence of biomimicry in art - the practice of looking to nature’s forms and systems for creative solutions. Focusing on how we as creatives maintain our humanity and what makes us human in a world of ever-changing technology and progress 🌀
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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.
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We are a cultural collective of artists, activists, and scientists standing in solidarity in the face of climate and democratic collapse. We’re starting a new creative movement. Join us.
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The transcendent new film, 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 (YFM), by Baltimore filmmaker Corey Hughes is now available in two exclusive editions: 𝗬𝗙𝗠 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗲 or as the ultimate physical artifact - the 𝗬𝗙𝗠 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸