Zero Books imprint: 167 books
Malign Velocities
Accelerationism and Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
We are told our lives are too fast, subject to the accelerating demand that we innovate more, work more, enjoy more, produce more, and consume more. That’s one familiar story. Another, stranger, story is told here: of those who think we haven’t gone fast enough. Instead of rejecting the increasing...
Claude Cahun
The Soldier with No Name
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Claude Cahun is the most important artist you've never heard of - until now. Writer, photographer, lesbian; revolutionary activist, surrealist, resistance fighter - Cahun witnessed the birth of the Paris avant-garde, lived through two World Wars and, as 'Der Soldat ohne Namen', risked death by inciting...
Rebel Rebel
All the Songs of David Bowie From '64 to '76
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
David Bowie: every single song. Everything you want to know, everything you didn't know. David Bowie remains mysterious and unknowable, despite 45 years of recording and performing. His legacy is roughly 600 songs, which range from psychedelia to glam rock to Philadelphia soul, from avant-garde instrumentals...
Kill All Normies
Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr To Trump And The Alt-Right
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet. On one side the "alt right" ranges from the once obscure neo-reactionary and white separatist movements, to geeky subcultures like 4chan, to more mainstream manifestations...
That Option No Longer Exists
Britain 1974-76
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
It is time to look afresh at the 1970s. It was not a grey decade of decline, defeat and power blackouts. Bursting with cultural experimentation, sexual liberation and industrial militancy, the 1970s saw the ruling elites of Britain challenged at every level, most especially by a Labour left led by Tony...
The People v. Tony Blair
Politics, the Media and the Anti-War Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
The People v. Tony Blair argues that even a hostile media can be neutralised when a mass movement becomes powerful enough.
Digesting Recipes
The Art of Culinary Notation
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Digesting Recipes: The Art of Culinary Notation scrutinises the form of the recipe, using it as a means to explore a multitude of subjects in post-war Western art and culture, including industrial mass-production, consumerism, hidden labour, and art engaged with the everyday. Each chapter is presented...
by Joanna Rajkowska
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
WHERE THE BEAST IS BURIED is the first English-language book about Joanna Rajkowska and her unique practice of work in public space, in extremely diverse cultures and geographies: from Konya in Anatolia, through Warsaw and Berlin up to Curitiba in Brazil. A collection of stories, essays, interviews and...
Anatomy of Thought-Fiction
CHS report, April 2214
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
In the year 2214, the Center for Humanistic Study has discovered an unpublished manuscript by Joanna Demers, a musicologist who lived some two centuries before. Her writing interrogates the music of artists ranging from David Bowie and Scott Walker to Kanye West and The KLF. Questioning how people of...
Colloquium
Sound Art and Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
In 2012, Thomas Gardner and Salomé Voegelin hosted a colloquium, entitled "Music - Sound Art: Historical Continuum and Mimetic Fissures", at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. This colloquium dealt with the current fervent debate concerning the relationship between sound...
Fear of Music
Why People Get Rothko But Don't Get Stockhausen
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Modern art is a mass phenomenon. Conceptual artists like Damien Hirst enjoy celebrity status. Works by 20th century abstract artists like Mark Rothko are selling for record breaking sums, while the millions commanded by works by Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon make headline news. However, while the...
Don't Lose Track
40 Selected Articles, Essays and Q&As
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Don't Lose Track is a collection from the widely published arts and culture journalist, Jordannah Elizabeth. The book includes reviews, essays and interviews hand selected by Jordannah from a catalog of over 200 articles.
Strangled
Identity, Status, Structure and The Stranglers
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
The Stranglers occupy a paradoxical position within the history of popular music. Although major artists within the punk and new-wave movements, their contribution to those genres has been effectively quarantined by subsequent critical and historical analyses. They are somehow "outside" the realm of...
Ghosts of My Life
Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. Fisher searches for the traces of these lost futures in the work of David Peace, John Le Carré, Christopher Nolan, Joy Division, Burial and many others.