The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet

Yancey Strickler

Venkatesh Rao

Maggie Appleton

Peter N Limberg

Rebecca Fox

Joshua Citarella

Leith Benkhedda Arthur Roing Bear GNV908

NEW MODELS

Cixin Liu

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The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet is a 208 page book that documents five tumultuous years when we learned how to live, create, and conspire on an increasingly adversarial internet. The anthology includes eleven pieces:

• The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet by

  Yancey Strickler

• The Extended Internet Universe by Venkatesh Rao

• The Dark Forest and Cozy Web by Maggie Appleton

• Chapel Perilous by Peter N Limberg and Rebecca Fox

• We Need New Platforms to Tell New Stories by Joshua Citarella

• Proof of Vibes by Leith Benkhedda

• Moving Castles by Arthur Roing Bear and GNV908

• The internet didn’t kill counterculture; you just won’t find it on Instagram by Caroline Busta of NEW MODELS

• The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI by Maggie Appleton

• Holographic Media by Caroline Busta and Lil Internet of NEW MODELS

• The Post Individual by Yancey Strickler

• A closing benediction by Cixin Liu

Print edition & PDF now available on Metalabel.

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