Zero Books imprint: 167 books
Coming From Nothing
A Thought Experiment Novella
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Coming From Nothing is a tragi-comic love story concerned with notions of identity, such as Judith Butler's idea that sexual identity isn't determined by the body, and John Locke's that personal identity is a question of memory. The first novella in Zero Books new series of Thought Experiment Novellas,...
by Jason Barker
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Karl Marx is a revolutionary. He is not alone. It is November 1849 and London is full of them: a bunch of fanatical dreamers trying to change the world. Persecuted by a tyrannical housekeeper and ignored by his sexually liberated wife, Marx immerses himself in his writing, believing that his book...
How to Read a History Book
The Hidden History Of History
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
A deconstruction of the modern history book as artifact, How to Read a History Book explains who writes history books, how the writers are trained, and why they write them. It also discusses genre, bias (political and otherwise) and how to read history books between the lines. Written for undergraduates,...
F.M.R.L.
Footnotes, Mirages, Refrains and Leftovers of Writing Sound
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Listening into writing, reading into writing take shape in F.M.R.L. through a collection of short texts, fragments and ‘deranged essays’, with attention to pacing and linguistic derives. An archive of books, notebooks, events and records prompts the texts in these pages, responding to encounters...
Politics by Other Means
Selected Criticism from Review 31
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Launched in October 2011, the online literary journal Review 31 - www.review31.co.uk - enjoys a growing reputation as one of the most intelligent and thoughtful literary resources on the web. Publishing accessible and informed reviews of the most interesting new titles, Review 31 covers non-fiction books...
by Maurizio Ferraris
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Positive Realism could be seen as the "sequel" to Maurizio Ferraris' Manifesto of New Realism and Introduction to New Realism. The focus here is the other side of unamendability: a notion, described in his previous books, according to which reality is "unamendable", it cannot be corrected at will. This...
Against Capital
Experiences of Class Struggle and Rethinking Revolutionary Agency
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
‘The problem is not how to manage the capital system, but to get rid of it’. And who will do the job? These are the questions posed at the start of Cliff Slaughter’s latest book. Recognising the importance of István Mészáros’s analysis - in Beyond Capital (1995) and other books - of the historic,...
Millennials and the Moments That Made Us
A Cultural History of the U.S. from 1982-Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
A generation on the move, a country on the brink, and a young author's search to find out how we got here. Millennials and the Moments That Made Us is a cultural history of the United States, as seen through the eyes of the largest, most diverse, and most disprivileged generation in American history....
The Coming Revolution
Capitalism in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
A technological revolution is driving capitalism toward crisis and collapse. Can our society evolve in time to rescue the future? Radical advances in automation, robotics, and computer technology have thrown millions out of work and will only continue to do so in the years to come. At the same time,...
Advancing Conversations
Aubrey De Grey - Advocate For An Indefinite Human Lifespan
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Advancing Conversations is a line of interview books documenting conversations with artists, authors, philosophers, economists, scientists, and activists whose works are aimed at the future and at progress. The biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, as the world's pre-eminent longevity advocate, is nothing...
Remapping 'Crisis'
A Guide to Athens
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
In periods of intense crisis the pressing need to take sides comes to the surface and trumps neutrality. The claim to objectivity, always a little problematic, can no longer be sustained, and becomes itself a ground of confrontation as the conflicts amongst economists and constitutional lawyers show....
by Stephen Mitchelmore
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
What does 'literature' mean in our time? While names like Proust, Kafka and Woolf still stand for something, what that something actually is has become obscured by the claims of commerce and journalism. Perhaps a new form of attention is required. Stephen Mitchelmore began writing online in 1996 and...
Psy-Complex in Question
Critical Review In Psychology, Psychoanalysis And Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Psy-Complex in Question traces a series of key debates in and against the psy-complex through critical reviews of twenty-five key texts over the last twenty-five years, with an emphasis on recent critical psychological, psychoanalytic and critical social theory contributions to how we think about...
Capitalism vs. Freedom
The Toll Road to Serfdom
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
For years, we’ve been taught that capitalism is good for freedom. Dominant right-wing talk radio hosts to this day recommend “libertarian” classics like Hayek’s Road to Serfdom and Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom that claim markets free us, and this picture still dominates the schools...