Zero Books imprint: 167 books
Angels and Demons: A Radical Anthology of Political Lives
A Marxist Analysis of Key Political and Historical Figures
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
A Marxist analysis of key political and historical figures including Hugo Chavez and Jeremy Corbyn, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Angels and Demons offers a series of profiles of historical figures both old and new. Using a Marxist analysis, the author adduces the particularities of each individual...
Los Indignados
Tides of Social Insertion in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
The emergent Indignados movement in Spain is transforming Spanish politics and society, heralding an end to the Transition since Franco, and responding to multiple legitimation crises in Spain and in Europe. This movement is rooted in the Stop Evictions campaign led by Ada Colau in Barcelona following...
Rowdy Entrepreneurs and Insecure Dinosaurs
Popular Strategies for Innovation After the End of Endings
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Rowdy Entrepreneurs and Insecure Dinosaurs is about invention and innovation in the context of postmodern society and information economy. It applies "popular culture" theory to such companies as Virgin, Microsoft, and Apple, to analyse their innovation strategies. This is the first book of its kind...
by Martin Demant Frederiksen
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
There have been claims that meaninglessness has become epidemic in the contemporary world. One perceived consequence of this is that people increasingly turn against both society and the political establishment with little concern for the content (or lack of content) that might follow. Most often,...
Hontology
Depressive Anthropology and the Shame of Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx has had an enormous influence on recent thought about the fate of human capabilities in late capitalism, especially in Europe. Hontology explores a road not taken in Specters of Marx - the idea that shame is the route by which we access the capabilities for living...
Superstructural Berlin
A Superstructural Tourist Guide to Berlin for the Visitor and the New Resident
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Superstructural Berlin is an experimental sociology of the city of Berlin. A mix of pamphlet-polemic, cultural critique, and weird colourful mapping enterprise. It tries to investigate the city as a series of infrastructures: drugs, nightclubs, arts, new economy and tourism.
U.ESS.AY
Politics and Humanity in American Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
U.ESS.AY: Politics and Humanity in American Film collects together the published essays of Stephen Lee Naish, into a narrative that explores the political and humanistic elements of modern cinema. With the rise of digital technology and the excessive use of CGI currently overwhelming cinema, realism...
America and Other Fictions
On Radical Faith and Post-Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
At a moment of cultural and political crisis, with forces of reaction seemingly ascendant throughout the West, it's fair to ask what use does anyone have for America, God, or any other similar fictions? What use does theological language have for the radical facing the apocalypse? Among the subjects...
Slave States
The Practice of Kafala in the Gulf Arab Region
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
A stark expose of the enslavement, trafficking, sexual starvation and general abuse of workers in the Gulf Arab Region.
Grave Desire
A Cultural History of Necrophilia
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Grave Desire is an analysis of the occasions of necrophilia throughout history, literature and the arts. It is an examination of the breaking of taboos and the metastasizing of fetishes in individuals and cultures using the works of Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Sigmund Freud, Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan,...
by Youssef El-Gingihy
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Dr Youssef El-Gingihy – a GP – tells the story of how the NHS has been gradually converted into a market-based healthcare system over the past 25 years. This process is accelerating under the Coalition government and the very existence of a National Health Service is in danger. He fears that there...
by Julian Feeld
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Fire Hides Everywhere is a speculative fiction novel exploring a question central to identity: do we exist beyond our subject positions? Following an apocalypse in which all except those just born or about to die disappeared, Julian Feeld's novel sets out to explore the eternal Buddhist question:...
Psychology and Capitalism
The Manipulation of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Psychology and Capitalism is a critical and accessible account of the ideological and material role of psychology in supporting capitalist enterprise and holding individuals entirely responsible for their fate through the promotion of individualism.