Zero Books imprint: 167 books
Politactics
Political Conversations from Everyday Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Technology, politics and entertainment have merged to the point of confusion. Politactics, the third book from the Everyday Analysis collective, is a set of conversations about how to sift through this organized but disordered mess and create a framework which could enact change against political and...
Pornography Feminism
As Powerful as She Wants to Be
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
During the sex wars of the 1980s, sex-positive feminism entered the adult film industry with a performer support group known as Club 90. Over the next three decades feminism found a home among an influential group of women in pornography. Pornography Feminism: As Powerful as She Wants to Be is a popular...
The World of Failing Machines
Speculative Realism and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The World of Failing Machines offers the first full-length discussion of the relationship between speculative realism and literary criticism. In identifying some of the most significant coordinates of speculative-realist thought, this book asks what the implications might be for the study of literature. It is argued that the first casualty might well be the form of the traditional essay.
Other Paradises
Poetic Approaches to Thinking in a Technological Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Why do people choose to play with ideas considered antiquated? Why do they elect to act in non-productive ways? Perhaps the question can be asked in reverse: What comes to mind when we think of technology? That which is practical, efficient, invisible, fast, optimistic, constantly updated. So how...
Feminism's Founding Fathers
The Men Who Fought for Women's Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Why have so many remarkable men fought for women's rights, often risking their careers and ruining their health? Who were these men, what were their backgrounds, above all: what kind of relationships did they have with women? Finally, if there have been so many deviations from the male-oppressor/female-victim...
Against Capitalist Education
What is Education for?
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Out there in the so-called real world the education system is being crushed by the demands of capitalism and, in turn, is crushing those who pass through it, reducing them, diminishing them. The dream of the economic functioning unit. How do we break this? We need alternatives but not just one or two....
All Things are Nothing to Me
The Unique Philosophy of Max Stirner
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Max Stirner’s The Unique and Its Property (1844) is the first ruthless critique of modern society. In All Things are Nothing to Me, Jacob Blumenfeld reconstructs the unique philosophy of Max Stirner (1806–1856), a figure that strongly influenced—for better or worse—Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche,...
Small Towns, Austere Times
The Dialectics of Deracinated Localism
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
This book explores small town austere Britain. The text argues for a return to both dialectical thinking and politicized community research, in light of the current 'austere' landscape, in order to intellectually militate against centre-right think tanks. It also urges for a kind of epistemological anarchism,...
Dynamo Island
The Cultural History and Geography of a Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Dynamo Island is an account of a contemporary ideal world set in an Ireland-sized island in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. It expresses the possibility of a modern society living in harmonious ecological balance with its environment. The ethos of the place is built around the notion of the human being...
Ignoble Displacement
Dispossessed Capital in Neo-Dickensian London
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
We live in a time of great social, political and economic crisis that many date to the collapse of the global banking system in 2008. Many are finding it difficult to contextualise the hardships that have taken place in the years following on from those events. It is difficult to find the answers in...
Rules Without Rulers
The Possibilities and Limits of Anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
This book is about the possibility of organising society without the state, but, crucially, it makes the claim, contrary to much anarchist theory, that such a life would not entail absolute freedom; rather, as the title suggests, it would mean creating new forms of social organisation which, whilst offering...
Zinnophobia
The Battle Over History in Education, Politics, and Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Zinnophobia offers an extended defense of the work of radical historian Howard Zinn, author of the bestselling A People's History of the United States, against his many critics. It includes a discussion of the attempt to ban Zinn's book from Indiana classrooms; a brief summary of Zinn's life and work;...
OccupyMedia!
The Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
The Occupy movement has emerged in a historical crisis of global capitalism. It struggles for the reappropriation of the commodified commons. Communications are part of the commons of society. Yet contemporary social media are ridden by an antagonism between private corporate control (YouTube, Facebook,...
by Brian Francis Culkin
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
The election of Donald Trump was a shattering moment to the political sensibilities of America; immediately sending the country into a frenzy of commentary, critique, and a never-ending media coverage that has bordered on the absurd. But the question still remains: what does it all mean?
The...