Zero Books imprint: 167 books
Centring the Margins
Essays and Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Centring the Margins is a collection of reviews and essays written between 2001 and 2014 of writers from Canada, the United States, the UK, and Europe. Most are neglected, obscure, or considered difficult, and include Mati Unt, Ornela Vorpsi, S.D. Chrostowska, Blaise Cendrars and Joseph McElroy, among others.
Why are Animals Funny?
Everyday Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Why are Animals Funny? comprises 46 articles in which nigh on everything is analyzed, from the smartphone to the 2010 general election, from toasties to Margaret Thatcher, from anxiety in children's literature to David Cameron's music tastes...
Scratching the Surface
Posties, Privatisation and Strikes in the Royal Mail
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Since 2000, there has been an ideologically driven experiment carried out in the UK to change the postal service provided by Royal Mail, to one beholden to the mantra of competition, profit and privatisation. This is the story of those in the frontline of change.
Vade Mecum
Essays, Reviews & Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Vade Mecum brings together Richard Skinner’s best essays, reviews and interviews from 1992-2014. There are close critical engagements with writers (Kazuo Ishiguro, Italo Calvino, Shakespeare’s The Tempest) and composers (Erik Satie, Iannis Xenakis, Luc Ferrari), meditations on films and filmmakers...
Blowing the Lid
Gay Liberation, Sexual Revolution and Radical Queens
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The Gay Liberation Front founded in 1970 urged gay men and gay women to unite around a simple set of demands among which were calls for an end to discrimination against homosexuals in employment, in sex education, in the age of consent and in being treated as sick by the medical establishment. GLF saw...
by John Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
In this ambitious theoretical encounter with five imaginary artists from the 1980s, John Roberts produces a set of richly constructed artistic thought experiments. But in creating the work on the page these thought experiments are not thereby novelistic fictions. On the contrary, the fictiveness of each...
Melancology
Black Metal Theory and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Melancology addresses the notorious musical genre black metal as a negative form of environmental writing that ‘blackens’ the cosmos. This book conjures a new word and concept that conjoins ‘black’ and ‘ecology’: melancology, a word in which can be heard the melancholy affect appropriate...
Clampdown
Pop-Cultural Wars on Class and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Why have both pop and politics in Britain become the preserve of an unrepresentative elite? From chav-pop pantomimes to retro-chauvinist ‘landfill indie’, the bland, homogenous and compromised nature of the current 'alternative' sector reflects the interests of a similarly complacent and privileged...
Pop Grenade
From Public Enemy to Pussy Riot - Dispatches from Musical Frontlines
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
An adrenalin-charged trip through some of the cultural flashpoints of the past few decades, Pop Grenade celebrates the power of music as a force for change. Based on first-hand, personal reportage from raves, riots and rebellions, it explores how music has been used as a weapon in struggles for liberation...
Drone and Apocalypse
An Exhibit Catalog for the End of the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Drone and Apocalypse is an exhibit catalog for a retrospective of twenty-first-century art. Its narrator, Cynthia Wey, is a failed artist convinced that apocalypse is imminent. She writes critical essays delineating apocalyptic tendencies in drone music and contemporary art. Interspersed amid these essays...
Punk Is Dead
Modernity Killed Every Night
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This original collection of insight, analysis and conversation charts the course of punk from its underground origins, when it was an un-formed and utterly alluring near-secret, through its rapid development. Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night takes in sex, style, politics and philosophy,...
Lazarus in the Multiple
Awakening to the Era of Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Lazarus in the Multiple presents a new philosophy on how to navigate the complex challenges that society faces in the 21st Century. It deploys the biblical “Lazarus” as the everyman of modernity, who is caught between past and present, life and death, and sleep and awakening amidst the humdrum and...
Twerking to Turking
Everyday Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
In this follow-up to the first volume of Everyday Analysis articles, Why are Animals Funny?, the EDA Collective tracks through an ABC of modern phenomena ordered by analytic theme, widely ranging from Advertising to Language, Sport to Education, Film and TV to Work and Play, and Politics to...
Georgian Portraits
Essays on the Afterlives of a Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Georgian Portraits chronicles everyday life in the Republic of Georgia in the decade that followed the Rose Revolution of 2003. Recent anthropological developments argue for the use of “afterlives” as an analytical notion through which to understand processes of socio-political change. Based on...