Forerunners: Ideas First is a 17-book series with 17 released primary works first released in 2014 with contributions by John Hartigan Jr., Jussi Parikka, Shannon Mattern, Steven Shaviro, David Golumbia, Akira Mizuta Lippit, Andrew Culp, Gary Hall, Clare Birchall, La Paperson, Robert Rosenberger, Kathryn Yusoff, Naa Oyo A. Kwate, Hil Malatino, Catherine Liu, John Protevi, and Cristina Beltrán.