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WORLDING

A Guide for Creators in Changing Times

Ian Cheng · Foreword by Venkatesh Rao · Cover art by Ian Cheng and Eden Rose Cheng

Ian Cheng's practical guide to worlding: making creative work that takes on a life of its own. A 21st-century Artist's Way, in print for the first time, with a foreword by Venkatesh Rao and the Worlding Raga dialogues. For artists, founders, parents, and creators of all kinds.

Part psychological reflection, part creative guide, WORLDING offers practical methods for making worlds by channeling four creative personas inside every creator: the Director, Cartoonist, Hacker, and Emissary.

“I was interested in worlding, not theorem-proving.” — Venkatesh Rao, from the foreword

EMISSARIES GUIDE TO WORLDING

Cosmogenesis Collector's Edition — revised, with a new preface

Ian Cheng · With an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, contributions from Nora N. Khan and Ben Vickers, and concept art by Andrej Ujházy

The collector's edition of Ian Cheng's cult worldbook: the story behind the Emissaries trilogy, the AI simulations held by MoMA, the Whitney and MOCA. With a new preface, an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, and hundreds of drawings, character sheets and stills. Part production bible, part manifesto.

Illustrated in colour throughout, plus installation photography from sixteen venues.

“Books are talismanic – objects embodying a source-like energy.” — Ian Cheng, from the new preface

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Ursula K. Le Guin · Introduction by Donna Haraway · Images by Lee Bul

Visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin tells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination.

“We should all be reading more Ursula Le Guin.” — The Outline

Paperback
ISBN 9781838003982
£7.99 / $9.99 / €9.99

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Hexen 2.0 Tarot

Suzanne Treister

After a decade out of print, this rare tarot deck returns in a highly anticipated new edition. The deck has sold over 10,000 copies worldwide.

“The connections drawn within and among the cards are so mind-boggling to contemplate that it seems entirely appropriate to comprehend them within a magical system like the tarot.” — The New York Times

Boxed tarot deck, 78 cards
ISBN 9781068765704
£35.00 / $49.95 / €40.99

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HEXEN 5.0 Tarot

Suzanne Treister

The long-awaited sequel to the cult classic HEXEN 2.0, arriving at a moment when the planet itself hangs between collapse and renewal.

“Suzanne Treister's tarot offers humanity a new toolbox.” — Apollo Magazine

Boxed tarot deck with posters and reading guide
ISBN 9781068765711
£39.99 / $53.99 / €46.99

UK trade stock arrives end of October. US stock is available now.

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Atlas of Anomalous AI

Edited by Ben Vickers & K Allado-McDowell

A compelling and surprising map of our complex relationship to intelligence, from ancient to emerging systems of knowledge.

“You sink into this book and completely lose your surroundings.” — The Art Newspaper

Large-format paperback with flaps, illustrated
ISBN 9781838003999
£38.99 / $52.99 / €45.99

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Pharmako-AI

K Allado-McDowell · Introduced by Irenosen Okojie · Cover by Refik Anadol

The first book to be co-created with the emergent AI: an experimental conversation with GPT-3 that unfolds into a labyrinthine exploration of memory, language and cosmology.

“No human being ever composed a ‘book’ like Pharmako-AI – it reads like a gnostic's Ouija board powered by atomic kaleidoscopes.” — Bruce Sterling

Paperback
ISBN 9781838003906
£13.99 / $19.95 / €16.99

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Air Age Blueprint

K Allado-McDowell · Cover art by Somnath Bhatt

K Allado-McDowell, with their writing partner GPT-3, tells the story of a future where artists, shamans and AI researchers collaborate to preserve the ecosystem.

“Air Age Blueprint inaugurates a new stage in twenty-first century AI writing.” — Hans Ulrich Obrist

Paperback
ISBN 9781838003951
£14.99 / $21.95 / €17.99

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Unknown Language

Hildegard of Bingen & Huw Lemmey · Introductory story by Bhanu Kapil · Afterword by Alice Spawls

Hildegard of Bingen discovers grace in the ruins of her medieval world, inscribing her visions into a codex thought lost in the collapse of the Information Age.

“Unlike any other book I've read this year… stirring and evocative.” — Chicago Review of Books

Paperback
ISBN 9781999675912
£14.99 / $19.95 / €17.99

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The White Paper

Satoshi Nakamoto · Guide by Jaya Klara Brekke · Introduction by James Bridle · Edited by Ben Vickers

The document that started it all: Nakamoto's white paper as a Rosetta Stone to decode the meaning of blockchain for contemporary society. Fully annotated.

“A truly unique reference point for the changes that could define this century.” — Paul Mason

Paperback
ISBN 9781999675929
£13.99 / $19.95 / €16.99

Prophetic Dreaming

Suzanne Treister · Essays by Lars Bang Larsen, Patricia Domínguez and Val Ravaglia

A major survey of Suzanne Treister, published to coincide with her first major UK retrospective at Modern Art Oxford.

“Before the work of Suzanne Treister explains itself, it recruits you.” — Burlington Contemporary

Large-format paperback with flaps, illustrated
ISBN 9781068765742
£28.99 / $39.99 / €33.99

UK and Europe now · US launch spring 2027. Not yet orderable in the US.

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