Zero Books imprint: 167 books
The Pac-Man Principle
A User's Guide To Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
In spite of being well into middle-age, Pac-Man's popularity shows no sign of decline and the character has appeared in over sixty games on virtually every games platform ever released. According to the David Brown celebrity index, in 2008, nearly three decades after initial release, 94% of Americans...
Is the East Still Red?
Socialism and the Market in China
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Does China represent a non-capitalist alternative to neoliberal development models? Commentators on the left have offered sharply divergent assessments over the last two decades. A few still cling the old dream of market socialism, twinning efficiency with social justice. For most, however, China is...
by Bojana Kunst
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The main affirmation of artistic practice must today happen through thinking about the conditions and the status of the artist's work. Only then can it be revealed that what is a part of the speculations of capital is not art itself, but mostly artistic life. Artist at Work examines the recent changes in the labour of an artist and addresses them from the perspective of performance.
Boredom and Art
Passions Of The Will To Boredom
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Boredom and Art examines the use of boredom as a strategy in modern and contemporary art to resist or frustrate the effects of consumerism and capitalism. This book traces the emergence of what Haladyn terms the will to boredom in which artists, writers and philosophers actively attempt to use the lack...
Dark Matters
A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Dark Matters explores the city at night as a place and time within which escape from the confines of the daytime is possible. More specifically, it is a state of being. There is a long history of nightwalking, often integral to shady worlds of miscreants, shift workers and transgressors. Yet the night...
Bio-Politicizing Cary Grant
Pressing Race, Class and Ethnicity into Service in “Amerika”
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Who will Cary Grant have been when the future runs out? In the atrocity-rich wake of Hiroshima, Cold War America is enriched beyond belief. Hollywood radiates, in turn, images of a consumer utopia criss-crossed by segregation, social mobility, racial passing, anxieties about ethnicity and “white panic”....
BioShock
Decision, Forced Choice and Propaganda
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
A historical, critical look at the famous videogame franchise BioShock, understanding it through philosophical, ideological and computational interpretations of systems, decisions and 'propaganda'.
The Neoliberal Undead
Essays on Contemporary Art and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The Neoliberal Undead describes the frightening world of class restoration, neoliberal austerity, ecological meltdown, and neo-imperialism a disaster capitalism that breeds mutant ideological justifications for itself and the inevitability of disorder, poverty and suffering. What role does culture play...
Society Elsewhere
Why the Gravest Threat to Humanity Will Come From Within
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
The biggest political and economic issue of the 21st and 22nd centuries will not be food, war, overpopulation, or the environment, but boredom and uselessness. The biggest problem will be figuring out how to manage people’s emotional lives in a time when their intelligence, brains and consciousness...
Neglected or Misunderstood
Introducing Theodor Adorno
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
While Theodor Adorno has continued to be influential since his death in 1969, his very centrality has led to the left simplifying his ideas while the right placed him at the center of a myriad of wild conspiracy theories, all of them filed under the category of Cultural Marxism. Adorno has wrongly...
In The Realm of the Senses
A Materialist Theory of Seeing and Feeling
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The five physical senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching have been held to underpin the complexity of human experience ever since Aristotle first theorised about how they worked. Classical and scholastic philosophy up to the time of the European Enlightenment relegated their operations...
Superactually
Micro-Essays on Post-Ironic Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
To speak ironically is to speak just for the effect. To speak superactually is to do something with words and take responsibility for that action. This is a book of short, provocative essays. Some are on fun topics in pop culture (hackers, dubstep, cat memes, thinking green, parkour, and the...
by Tom Sparrow
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Through six heterodox essays this book extracts a materialist account of subjectivity and aesthetics from the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. More than a work of academic commentary that would leave many of Levinas s pious commentators aghast, Sparrow exhibits an aspect of Levinas which is darker, yet...
by Nikos Dimou
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Required reading for anyone wishing to understand how the Greek crisis came about and what it means to be Greek today written by a controversial patriot and native of Greece.