Zero Books imprint: 167 books
by Daniel Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Daniel Simpson’s memoir charts a gonzo career at The New York Times. Ambitious and idealistic, he was hired to report on the Balkans but quit within months, freaked out by his editor’s zeal for starting wars. Disillusioned, Daniel went native in Belgrade. Together with the charismatic G, who'd appeared...
Poor but Sexy
Culture Clashes in Europe East and West
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
24 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe is as divided as ever. The passengers of the low-budget airlines go east for stag parties, and they go West for work; but the East stays East, and West stays West. Caricatures abound - the Polish plumber in the tabloids, the New Cold War in the broadsheets...
Continuity and Rupture
Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
A philosophical examination of the theoretical terrain of contemporary Maoism premised on the counter-intuitive assumption that Maoism did not emerge as a coherent theory until the end of the 1980s.
Heavy Radicals - The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists
The Revolutionary Union / Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Heavy Radicals: The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists is a history of the Revolutionary Union/Revolutionary Communist Party — the largest Maoist organization to arise in the US — from its origins in the explosive year of 1968, its expansion into a national organization in the early seventies,...
It’s Not Over
Learning From the Socialist Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The path to a better world can’t be found without knowledge of history. /It’s Not Over/ analyzes attempts to supplant capitalism in the past in order to draw lessons for emerging and future movements that seek to overcome the political and economic crises of today. This history is presented through...
Starry Speculative Corpse
Horror of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Could it be that the more we know about the world, the less we understand it? Could it be that, while everything has been explained, nothing has meaning? Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Eugene Thacker explores these and other issues in Starry Speculative Corpse....
Tentacles Longer Than Night
Horror of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Our contemporary horror stories are written in a world where there seems little faith, lost hope, and no salvation. All that remains is the fragmentary and occasionally lyrical testimony of the human being struggling to confront its lack of reason for being in the vast cosmos. This is the terrain...
The Thing
A Phenomenology of Horror
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
What is the human body? Both the most familiar and unfamiliar of things, the body is the centre of experience but also the site of a prehistory anterior to any experience. Alien and uncanny, this other side of the body has all too often been overlooked by phenomenology. In confronting this oversight,...
by Darren Ambrose
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Despite the clichés which govern much of its current forms, the cinema continues to have a vital political and aesthetic significance. Our commitment to, and our sincerity towards, our ways of being in the world have become catastrophically eroded. Nihilism and despair have taken hold. We must find...
by Joe Milutis
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Failure, A Writer’s Life is a catalogue of literary monstrosities. Its loosely organized vignettes and convolutes provide the intrepid reader with a philosophy for the unreadable, a consolation for the ignored, and a map for new literary worlds.
The Last Night
Anti-Work, Atheism, Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Our secular society seems to have finally found its new God: Work. As technological progress makes human labor superfluous, and over-production destroys both the economy and the planet, Work remains stronger than ever as a mantra of universal submission. This book develops a fully-fledged theory of radical...
Enlightenment Interrupted
The Lost Moment of German Idealism and the Reactionary Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
The modern world claims to inherit the values of the Enlightenment. Enlightenment Interrupted suggests a different genealogy. Instead of carrying on the Enlightenment it grew out of its suppression and forgetting, a founding act of bad faith and willed blindness that has haunted our world from its birth....
Porn Panic!
Sex and Censorship in the UK
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Porn Panic! charts the rise of a new social conservatism for the new millennium, coinciding with the collapse of liberalism as a political force. Unlike the old morality movements, this one is focused on the left of politics. Using the language of the old, liberal left - especially the feminist movement...
Vagabond Witness
Victor Serge and the Politics of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Victor Serge was the first and the greatest witness of the twentieth century. An anarchist in France, a syndicalist in Spain, a critical Bolshevik in Russia, an agent of the Comintern in Germany and Austria, an exile, Serge once said that people judged history, but they did so without knowing what really...