Zero Books imprint: 167 books
Working the Aisles
A Life in Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Working the Aisles takes the reader on tumultuous driving trips across the United States and France, on phone sex escapades in San Francisco, on banking battles in Sweden, and many other adventures – including, of course, on trips to supermarkets, where the author has had to ‘work the aisles’....
Made in Brooklyn
Artists, Hipsters, Makers, and Gentrification
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Made in Brooklyn provides a belated critique of the Maker Movement: from its origins in the nineteenth century to its impact on labor and its entanglement in the neoliberal economic model of the tech industry. This critique is rooted in a case study of one neighborhood in Brooklyn, where artists occupy...
10/40/70
Constraint as Liberation in the Era of Digital Film Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
In an era of rapid transformation from analog to digital, how can we write about cinema in ways that are as fresh, surprising, and challenging as the best films are? In 10/40/70 Nicholas Rombes proposes one bold possibility: pause a film at the 10, 40, and 70-minute mark and write about the frames at...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
In Airplane Reading, Christopher Schaberg and Mark Yakich bring together a range of essays about air travel. Discerning and full of wonder, this prismatic collection features perspectives from a variety of writers, airline workers, and everyday travelers. At turns irreverent, philosophical, and earnest,...
The Animatic Apparatus
Animation, Vitality, and the Futures of the Image
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Unprecedented kinds of experience, and new modes of life, are now produced by simulations, from the CGI of Hollywood blockbusters to animal cloning to increasingly sophisticated military training software, while animation has become an increasingly powerful pop-cultural form. Today, the extraordinary...
A Gathering of Promises
The Battle for Texas's Psychedelic Music, from The 13th Floor Elevators to The Black Angels and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
A Gathering of Promises is a history of acid rock and psychedelic music in and from the state of Texas, focusing largely on its mid-1960s origins with the 13th Floor Elevators and contemporaries such as the Golden Dawn, the Red Crayola and Bubble Puppy, and following its development to the present day...
Translating Anarchy
The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Translating Anarchy tells the story of the anti-capitalist anti-authoritarians of Occupy Wall Street who strategically communicated their revolutionary politics to the public in a way that was both accessible and revolutionary. By “translating” their ideas into everyday concepts like community empowerment...
by Alexandra Kitty
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Journalism used to be a thing. It used to be a powerful and wonderful thing, yet now it has become a curiosity, and not even the Internet can resurrect it. When Journalism was a Thing considers the downfall and the reasons why, but also offers a model for a new approach to the once-noble profession.
Open Book Theater Management
Ethical Theater Production
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
In the world of Fringe (or Off-Off Broadway) theatre, a strong debate has been raging for years - when you're producing a low/no-budget production, how on earth can you make it happen and still treat everyone involved in an open, honest and ethical manner? Where do you stand with profit-share productions...
Resilience & Melancholy
Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
When most people think that “little girls should be seen and not heard,” a noisy, riotous scream can be revolutionary. But that’s not the case anymore. (Cis/Het/White) Girls aren’t supposed to be virginal, passive objects, but Poly-Styrene-like sirens who scream back in spectacularly noisy and...
Capitalism on Campus
Sex Work, Academic Freedom and the Market
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Capitalism on Campus examines the university’s journey into market hands and the sexual sell-off of students, which has come with it. It raises critical questions about the forces which conjoin higher education to both sex work and declining academic freedom. In so doing it questions the role our...
The Off-Modern
Psychology Estranged
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Society is undergoing a process of deep change and transformation as the neoliberal order moves into crisis. Contemporary psychology, mired in exceptionalism and individualism, fails to address this broader context and continues with a fragmented reductionist approach which is alienating to students...
Greece: What is to be Done?
A Pamphlet
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
"Greece What is to be done" analyzes the Greek debt crisis, the multilateral austerity countermeasures, and offers alternatives to the socioeconomic destruction of Greece and the Eurozone.
Officious
Rise of the Busybody State
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
In Anglo-Saxon countries there is a new and distinctive form of state: the busybody state. This state is defined by an attachment to bureaucratic procedures for their own sake: the rule for the sake of a rule; the form for the sake of a form. Its insignias are the badge, the policy, the code and the...