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10/40/70	[ "Nicholas Rombes" ]	A bold experiment in film theory for the digital era.	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 hand, no matter wh...	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 hand, no matter wh...	3	[ "For Nicholas Rombes, every film is an oracle. In 10/40/70, he proposes a new method of divination: stop the film at arbitrary points, and give a careful account of what you see. The result may be an intense formal analysis, or a new appreciation of narrative subtleties, or a kind of emotional weather report, or a ...
15 Years of Speculative Realism	[ "Charlie Johns" ]	A definitive and invaluable re-assessment of the last decade of speculative realism.	More than 15 years have passed since the speculative realism conference at Goldsmiths College, London, hosted Ray Brassier, Iain Hamilton Grant, Graham Harman, and Quentin Meillassoux. Their dictum was simple: Reality is not what it seems. 15 Years of Speculative Realism begins with four chapters, each dedicated to th...	More than 15 years have passed since the speculative realism conference at Goldsmiths College, London, hosted Ray Brassier, Iain Hamilton Grant, Graham Harman, and Quentin Meillassoux. Their dictum was simple: Reality is not what it seems. 15 Years of Speculative Realism begins with four chapters, each dedicated to th...	2	[ "When the first speculative realism symposium was held in 2007, it caused a sensation both inside and outside philosophical circles. It seemed to portend a radical shift in our relation to, and in our understanding of, the world. But it is the fate of successful revolutions in thought to be assimilated into the ver...
2 Ennerdale Drive	[ "Rosa Ainley" ]	A missed family funeral and too many phone calls going nowhere, except to 2 Ennerdale Drive. Who will play detective?	2 Ennerdale Drive is a memoir of a house and the family that lived there; a work of text and image encompassing architecture, social and personal history, town planning, photography and representation, carving a space within and between new forms of memoir, cultural studies and creative non-fiction. The house in north ...	2 Ennerdale Drive is a memoir of a house and the family that lived there; a work of text and image encompassing architecture, social and personal history, town planning, photography and representation, carving a space within and between new forms of memoir, cultural studies and creative non-fiction. The house in north ...	3	[ "It may or may not have escaped attention (though it has not escaped the attention of the Oxonian Review ) that Zero Books is having an extraordinarily good run at the moment - so heres plugs for four I think especially worth plugging. …\n\nThree books on film, in the loosest sense … More domestic, albeit deceptive...
Advancing Conversations: Aubrey de Grey - advocate for an indefinite human lifespan	[ "Douglas Lain", "Aubrey de Grey" ]	A line of interview books documenting conversations with artists, authors, philosophers, economists, scientists, and activists whose works are aimed at the future and at progress.	Advancing Conversations is a line of interview books documenting conversations with artists, authors, philosophers, economists, scientists, and activists whose works are aimed at the future and at progress. The biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, as the world's pre-eminent longevity advocate, is nothing if not future orie...	Advancing Conversations is a line of interview books documenting conversations with artists, authors, philosophers, economists, scientists, and activists whose works are aimed at the future and at progress. The biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, as the world's pre-eminent longevity advocate, is nothing if not future orie...	0	[]
Advancing Conversations: Srećko Horvat - Subversion!	[ "Alfie Bown", "Srećko Horvat" ]	An interview with acclaimed European philosopher and political activist Srećko Horvat.	In a world dominated by capitalism which is dangerously sliding into a new kind of fascism, Srećko Horvat's new book explores the concept of subverting the dominant paradigm in politics, technology and love. Drawing from his own experience of participating in different protest movements all around the world, working cl...	In a world dominated by capitalism which is dangerously sliding into a new kind of fascism, Srećko Horvat's new book explores the concept of subverting the dominant paradigm in politics, technology and love. Drawing from his own experience of participating in different protest movements all around the world, working cl...	2	[ "History has only produced decency when good people infiltrated despotic institutions and succeeded in subverting them, often at a terrible cost to themselves. Horvat explains brilliantly subversion’s creative potential, in juxtaposition to isolationism and escapism which are the establishment’s best friends. ~ Yan...
Aesthetics & Alienation	[ "Gary Tedman" ]	What is the role of the aesthetic state apparatus?	Aesthetics has recently become the focus of greater attention, and is now seen as a central problem in critical cultural theory and Marxism. This places Gary Tedman's work at the forefront of this concern, where his concepts of the aesthetic level and of aesthetic state apparatuses have proved to be a challenge even to...	Aesthetics has recently become the focus of greater attention, and is now seen as a central problem in critical cultural theory and Marxism. This places Gary Tedman's work at the forefront of this concern, where his concepts of the aesthetic level and of aesthetic state apparatuses have proved to be a challenge even to...	0	[]
After Pornified	[ "Anne G. Sabo" ]	After Pornified: where female pornmakers lead the way, empowering women to claim their bodies and sex against a pornified culture.	Porn brings up a lot of negative images in our sexualized, pornified culture. But today a growing number of women are radically changing porn to authentically capture with respect and realism the sexual lives of women and men, empowering and inspiring the viewer to claim her sexuality against a pornified culture, and c...	Porn brings up a lot of negative images in our sexualized, pornified culture. But today a growing number of women are radically changing porn to authentically capture with respect and realism the sexual lives of women and men, empowering and inspiring the viewer to claim her sexuality against a pornified culture, and c...	19	[ "Anne G. Sabo's After Pornified: How Women are Transforming Pornography and Why It Really Matters is a straightforward study of pron made by women... In a world where porn often circulates in small clips that are divorced from their origins, with no indication of financing or mode of production, After Pornified is ...
After The Apocalypse	[ "Monika Kostera" ]	During times of crumbling social structures and deep divisions, we need to find ideas and values on which we as organizers and society members can build bridges, and unite in our journey towards a common future.	Our times of crumbling structures and decaying social bonds are often depicted as apocalyptic. This book takes the apocalypse as a metaphor to help us in the search for meaning in our everyday realities. Yes, the apocalypse is when social structures and institutions fall apart and we are terrified and suffocated by the...	Our times of crumbling structures and decaying social bonds are often depicted as apocalyptic. This book takes the apocalypse as a metaphor to help us in the search for meaning in our everyday realities. Yes, the apocalypse is when social structures and institutions fall apart and we are terrified and suffocated by the...	5	[ "So there is hope. And in After the Apocalypse, the Polish economist and professor of management Monika Kostera takes hope as her theme. Hope shapes experience and, crucially, Kostera wants to inspire it.\n\nShe makes an earnest and worthy contribution to organisation theory, which deals with the effects of social ...
After the Great Refusal	[ "Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen" ]	A Western Marxist, Avant-garde reading of contemporary art.	After the Great Refusal offers a Western Marxist reading of contemporary art focusing on the continued presence (or absence) of the avant-garde’s transgressive impulse. Taking art’s ability to contribute to a potential radical social transformation as its point of departure, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen' analyses the relatio...	After the Great Refusal offers a Western Marxist reading of contemporary art focusing on the continued presence (or absence) of the avant-garde’s transgressive impulse. Taking art’s ability to contribute to a potential radical social transformation as its point of departure, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen' analyses the relatio...	4	[ "In a time of headlong social and biophysical 'dissolution into capital', social reproduction crashes and dark political phenomena spring up on all sides. Friendly phantoms of reform surface here and there with their jolts of short-lived radical affect, while fascist libidinal economies go to work on everything fro...
Against Capital	[ "Cliff Slaughter" ]	In today's globalised world, and after the collapse of Stalinism, what remains of Marx's 'the working class as the gravediggers of capitalism'?	‘The problem is not how to manage the capital system, but to get rid of it’. And who will do the job? These are the questions posed at the start of Cliff Slaughter’s latest book. Recognising the importance of István Mészáros’s analysis - in Beyond Capital (1995) and other books - of the historic, ‘structural crisis’ th...	‘The problem is not how to manage the capital system, but to get rid of it’. And who will do the job? These are the questions posed at the start of Cliff Slaughter’s latest book. Recognising the importance of István Mészáros’s analysis - in Beyond Capital (1995) and other books - of the historic, ‘structural crisis’ th...	2	[ "Synopsis: 'The problem is not how to manage the capital system, but to get rid of it'. And who will do the job? These are the questions posed at the start of \"Against Capital: Experiences of Class Struggle and Rethinking Revolutionary Agency\" a compilation of thoughtful and thought-provoking articles edited by C...
Against Capitalist Education	[ "Nadim Anjum Bakhshov" ]	The birth of a revolutionary art of world-creation.	Out there in the so-called real world the education system is being crushed by the demands of capitalism and, in turn, is crushing those who pass through it, reducing them, diminishing them. The dream of the economic functioning unit. How do we break this? We need alternatives but not just one or two. We need the free...	Out there in the so-called real world the education system is being crushed by the demands of capitalism and, in turn, is crushing those who pass through it, reducing them, diminishing them. The dream of the economic functioning unit. How do we break this? We need alternatives but not just one or two. We need the free...	6	[ "Somewhere in this book, amongst the flashes of insight and exchange, lie the seeds of a revolution in our modes of existence, our forms of value and meaning and fundamental ways of existing as humans within this fragile planetary ecology.\n\n~ Baba Shree Vardi", "It is only through developing reasoned and imagin...
Against the Vortex	[ "Anthony Galluzzo" ]	Against the Vortex uses Boorman's '74 cult sci-fi film as the starting point for exploring a neglected strand of '70s thinkers and artists whose ideas propose a radical degrowth utopia as the horizon to which our politics should be oriented.	Alongside scientific knowledge and collective effort, building a degrowth ecological society will require a different set of stories and myths than the big and fast Promethean fables we’re accustomed to. Using Boorman’s Zardoz as a tool, Against The Vortex unearths the artistic and intellectual output of a deceleration...	Alongside scientific knowledge and collective effort, building a degrowth ecological society will require a different set of stories and myths than the big and fast Promethean fables we’re accustomed to. Using Boorman’s Zardoz as a tool, Against The Vortex unearths the artistic and intellectual output of a deceleration...	9	[ "\"For a volume of fewer than eighty pages, Anthony Galluzzo’s Against The Vortex achieves an awful lot (...) it remains acutely sensitive to Zardoz’s complexities and contradictions and it gives nothing to the voguish reductionisms from across the political spectrum which would take Boorman’s vision as nothing mor...
Against the Web	[ "Michael Brooks" ]	From Michael Brooks, host of The Michael Brooks Show and co-host of the Majority Report, comes the first book to directly respond to the Intellectual Dark Web and Jordan Peterson.	Michael Brooks against the "Intellectual Dark Web." As the host of The Michael Brooks Show and co-host of the Majority Report, Brooks was a progressive fighter whose work brought people together from around the world. In this, his first book, he lets his understanding of the digital media environment direct his analys...	Michael Brooks against the "Intellectual Dark Web." As the host of The Michael Brooks Show and co-host of the Majority Report, Brooks was a progressive fighter whose work brought people together from around the world. In this, his first book, he lets his understanding of the digital media environment direct his analys...	5	[ "Michael called out the nonsense of the so-called Intellectual Dark Web well before anyone else caught onto their cynical games. A brilliant critique of the Right with very sharp insight on some of the shortcomings of the Left, this book is a must-read for anyone looking to understand how dishonest actors spread th...
Age of Nixon, The	[ "Carl Freedman" ]	applies Marxism and psychoanalysis to the study of American politics. In America, every age is the Age of Nixon.	The fundamental argument of this book is, first, that Richard Nixon, though not generally regarded as a charismatic or emotionally outgoing politician like Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan, did establish profound psychic connections with the American people, connections that can be detected both in the brilliant ele...	The fundamental argument of this book is, first, that Richard Nixon, though not generally regarded as a charismatic or emotionally outgoing politician like Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan, did establish profound psychic connections with the American people, connections that can be detected both in the brilliant ele...	2	[ "Richard Nixon was real, for all that he seems like a fictional character concocted in the course of some strange literary collaboration between Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Theodore Dreiser, and J. G. Ballard. And Nixon continues to fascinate us, and to haunt our dreams, even these many years after his death. Carl Freedman...
Agency of Their Own, An	[ "Gregor Gall" ]	Sex workers of the world are uniting and fighting to gain control over their working lives.	This book concerns the projects and processes of sex worker unionisation and more widely forms of sex worker self-interest representation. Since the late 1980s, sex workers have unionised themselves as collective associations of workers in their worksites in many countries. The term ‘sex workers’, chosen by sex workers...	This book concerns the projects and processes of sex worker unionisation and more widely forms of sex worker self-interest representation. Since the late 1980s, sex workers have unionised themselves as collective associations of workers in their worksites in many countries. The term ‘sex workers’, chosen by sex workers...	0	[]
Airplane Reading	[ "Christopher Schaberg", "Mark Yakich" ]	Re-examining the strange and ordinary world of air travel, one flight at a time.	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, each essay is a...	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, each essay is a...	2	[ "A marvelous story round-up exploring and explaining what air travel does to us—and makes us do. Buy it now, but save it to read on your next cross-country flight. ~ Harriet Baskas, travel writer for USAToday.com, author of Stuck at the Airport", "An insightful exploration into the airplane journey that is both e...
Albion's Secret History	[ "Guy Mankowski" ]	Snapshots of how English pop culture’s rebels and outsiders, from The Long Blondes and The Libertines, to Tricky and Goldfrapp, altered our sense of a green but sometimes unpleasant land.	Albion's Secret History compiles snapshots of English pop culture’s rebels and outsiders, from Evelyn Waugh to PJ Harvey via The Long Blondes and The Libertines. By focusing on cultural figures who served to define England, Guy Mankowski looks at those who have really shaped Albion’s secret history, not just its oft-qu...	Albion's Secret History compiles snapshots of English pop culture’s rebels and outsiders, from Evelyn Waugh to PJ Harvey via The Long Blondes and The Libertines. By focusing on cultural figures who served to define England, Guy Mankowski looks at those who have really shaped Albion’s secret history, not just its oft-qu...	13	[ "An inherently fascinating, iconoclastic, and informative read from cover to cover, \"Albion's Secret History: Snapshots of England's Pop Rebels and Outsiders\" is an original work of impressive research and highly recommended for community, college and university library 20th Century English Cultural History colle...
Aliens, Robots & Virtual Reality Idols in the Science Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov and William Gibson	[ "John L. Steadman" ]	John L. Steadman argues that there is little difference between alien indifferentism and alien inclusionism in the fictional works of H. P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov and William Gibson.	H. P. Lovecraft’s aliens are extra-terrestrial, terrestrial & trans-dimensional entities, totally unlike any other aliens in science fiction literature. In contrast, Isaac Asimov's and William Gibson’s aliens are human created positronic robots and virtual reality constructs, or 'idols'. Lovecraft’s great theme is ali...	H. P. Lovecraft’s aliens are extra-terrestrial, terrestrial & trans-dimensional entities, totally unlike any other aliens in science fiction literature. In contrast, Isaac Asimov's and William Gibson’s aliens are human created positronic robots and virtual reality constructs, or 'idols'. Lovecraft’s great theme is ali...	4	[ "Steadman (H.P. Lovecraft and the Black Magickal Tradition), a scholar of science fiction literature, provides an intriguing look at three giants of the genre in terms of how each treated the concept of the alien. As he acknowledges, his three subjects are known for tackling disparate themes. Lovecraft’s supernatur...
All Things Are Nothing to Me	[ "Jacob Blumenfeld" ]	Max Stirner’s "The Unique and Its Property" (1844) is the first ruthless critique of modern society.	Max Stirner’s The Unique and Its Property (1844) is the first ruthless critique of modern society. In All Things are Nothing to Me, Jacob Blumenfeld reconstructs the unique philosophy of Max Stirner (1806–1856), a figure that strongly influenced—for better or worse—Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emma Goldman as well a...	Max Stirner’s The Unique and Its Property (1844) is the first ruthless critique of modern society. In All Things are Nothing to Me, Jacob Blumenfeld reconstructs the unique philosophy of Max Stirner (1806–1856), a figure that strongly influenced—for better or worse—Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emma Goldman as well a...	6	[ "Even people who have been grappling with Stirner’s work and its implications for quite some time will find new insights, new challenges, and, one hopes, new weapons on reading it. ~ Matty Groves, The Anvil", "In his ambitious study, Blumenfeld attempts to revive Stirner’s ghost once more in two regards: he wants...
Allegories of the End of Capitalism	[ "Milo Sweedler" ]	How contemporary films transcode popular discontent with global capitalism.	In Allegories of the End of Capitalism, Milo Sweedler examines how filmmakers from six different countries, across four continents, give narrative and audio-visual form to the frustration and anger that burst into public view in 2011, the ongoing class war between the super-rich and the rest of the world's population, ...	In Allegories of the End of Capitalism, Milo Sweedler examines how filmmakers from six different countries, across four continents, give narrative and audio-visual form to the frustration and anger that burst into public view in 2011, the ongoing class war between the super-rich and the rest of the world's population, ...	4	[ "Sweedler's book deserves to be widely read. Its subject is of vital importance. ~ Daniel Lindvall, Film International", "Milo Sweedler’s book is an unfailingly interesting and indeed fun read from start to finish. Focusing on six films which conjure with various images of revolt against capitalism and even with ...
Almighty Machine, The	[ "Pekka Vahvanen", "Mark Jones (Translator)" ]	Read this book and re-evaluate your relationship with digital tech – is it making you unhappy?	The hymn of Digitalization is nothing new: We must encourage the creation of new apps. We must develop AI in order to prevail among international competition. Technology's advance will halt climate change and let robots do the dumb stuff for us. Our faith in technology is powerful because it has saved us in the past. ...	The hymn of Digitalization is nothing new: We must encourage the creation of new apps. We must develop AI in order to prevail among international competition. Technology's advance will halt climate change and let robots do the dumb stuff for us. Our faith in technology is powerful because it has saved us in the past. ...	1	[ "Technological advancements are always necessary to keep up in the world, but here within The Almighty Machine, author Pekka Vahvanen shows us technology’s flip side.\n\nWithin this book and the eight chapters therein are a series of dedicated, expertly thought out, concise and at their crux, deeply worrying theori...
Along the Watchtower	[ "Nathan Akehurst" ]	Europe’s war on migration is everywhere. This book unearths the forces behind it and how they’ve reshaped our society.	Thousands of people die preventable deaths at Europe’s borders every year. And the situation keeps getting worse. From eastern Polish forest swamps to the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas to the corridors of power, Along the Watchtower describes how Europe’s war on migration has spun out of control. Through the stories ...	Thousands of people die preventable deaths at Europe’s borders every year. And the situation keeps getting worse. From eastern Polish forest swamps to the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas to the corridors of power, Along the Watchtower describes how Europe’s war on migration has spun out of control. Through the stories ...	4	[ "“This is a profoundly important book – about the moral black hole at the heart of the Western response to migration. The issue will dominate politics in Europe and North America over the next 20 years, as growing numbers of refugees are compelled to flee both from surging conflict and devastating climate change ag...
Alphonso Lingis and Existential Genealogy	[ "Alexander E. Hooke" ]	The first book-length study of the work of Alphonso Lingis' philosophical works.	What is philosophy? Is philosophy an academic discipline that produces arguments and theories, or is philosophy also about understanding the world through stories, metaphors, analogies, ambience, and even through feelings? Alphonso Lingis approaches philosophy the way a travel writer approaches a strange new land, wit...	What is philosophy? Is philosophy an academic discipline that produces arguments and theories, or is philosophy also about understanding the world through stories, metaphors, analogies, ambience, and even through feelings? Alphonso Lingis approaches philosophy the way a travel writer approaches a strange new land, wit...	3	[ "Alphonso Lingis has been so far ahead of the intellectual curve that he has received less than his share of attention in orthodox philosophy. Alex Hooke closes that temporal deficit. This is a compelling and absorbing book that will more than repay the time it takes to dwell in and with it. A timely and exceptiona...
Althusser and Art	[ "Jonathan R Fardy" ]	Althusser and Art examines the relationship between Althusser’s political theory and his writings on art.	Althusser and Art offers a reading of Althusserianism as a meta-mediation on the question concerning the aesthetics of theory. Fardy shows that Althusserian theory is part of a larger genealogy of thought, stretching from Korsch through Laruelle, that has been primarily concerned with the search for a form of theory, a...	Althusser and Art offers a reading of Althusserianism as a meta-mediation on the question concerning the aesthetics of theory. Fardy shows that Althusserian theory is part of a larger genealogy of thought, stretching from Korsch through Laruelle, that has been primarily concerned with the search for a form of theory, a...	1	[ "In this impressively concise book calling for a \"return to Althusser\" through the avenue of Althusserian aesthetics, Jonathan Fardy has accomplished nothing short of the twenty-first century equivalent of Althusser's own call for a \"return to Marx\" in the 1960s. Readers will certainly learn much from Fardy's d...
America and Other Fictions	[ "Ed Simon" ]	If America or God didn't exist it would be necessary to invent them. Let's start.	At a moment of cultural and political crisis, with forces of reaction seemingly ascendant throughout the West, it's fair to ask what use does anyone have for America, God, or any other similar fictions? What use does theological language have for the radical facing the apocalypse? Among the subjects considered: the nee...	At a moment of cultural and political crisis, with forces of reaction seemingly ascendant throughout the West, it's fair to ask what use does anyone have for America, God, or any other similar fictions? What use does theological language have for the radical facing the apocalypse? Among the subjects considered: the nee...	3	[ "In this book you'll rediscover America, the enchanted and cursed. For an age haunted with reactionary nostalgia, Ed Simon haunts readers with an American greatness that is both lovely and perverse, through masterfully told tales that look their subjects' original sins straight in the eye. His America is more than ...
Anatomy of Thought-Fiction	[ "Joanna Demers" ]	Why do people choose to believe things they know are untrue?	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 the early twenty-f...	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 the early twenty-f...	1	[ "Focused on music, but with implications that extend to just about everything, Anatomy of Thought-Fiction explores the role of false ideas in our intellectual and emotional life. Joanna Demers’ elegant monograph (or should that be polygraph?) softly shatters myths and tenderly takes apart received wisdom. Yet this ...
Angels and Demons: A Radical Anthology of Political Lives	[ "Tony McKenna" ]	A Marxist analysis of key political and historical figures including Hugo Chavez and Jeremy Corbyn, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.	A Marxist analysis of key political and historical figures including Hugo Chavez and Jeremy Corbyn, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Angels and Demons offers a series of profiles of historical figures both old and new. Using a Marxist analysis, the author adduces the particularities of each individual personality fro...	A Marxist analysis of key political and historical figures including Hugo Chavez and Jeremy Corbyn, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Angels and Demons offers a series of profiles of historical figures both old and new. Using a Marxist analysis, the author adduces the particularities of each individual personality fro...	3	[ "Newly released by Zero Books, Tony McKenna’s aptly titled “Angels and Demons” is a collection of profiles…that has the author’s customary psychological insight and literary grace…[I]t demonstrates a remarkable breadth of knowledge about disparate cultural, political and intellectual strands that is seldom seen tod...
Animatic Apparatus, The	[ "Deborah Levitt" ]	How the transition from analogue to digital, and the rise of animation and simulation transform our concepts of life in contemporary culture.	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 new practices and ...	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 new practices and ...	3	[ "At once theoretically dazzling and fearless, The Animatic Apparatus shows how the production of life in animation deconstructs ontology as such: “There is no death in animation, because there is no being, no existence, to begin with.” But an-ontology is not the end of living. Instead, carefully tracing how the med...
Anthropology of Nothing in Particular, An	[ "Martin Demant Frederiksen" ]	A journey into the social lives of meaninglessness.	There have been claims that meaninglessness has become epidemic in the contemporary world. One perceived consequence of this is that people increasingly turn against both society and the political establishment with little concern for the content (or lack of content) that might follow. Most often, encounters with meani...	There have been claims that meaninglessness has become epidemic in the contemporary world. One perceived consequence of this is that people increasingly turn against both society and the political establishment with little concern for the content (or lack of content) that might follow. Most often, encounters with meani...	9	[ "This book attends to those troubling moments that ‘go missing when we look for meaning’. The narrative stages a series of encounters with such imponderable, meaningless ‘nothings’, leading to a deeply philosophical tarrying with mute, meaningless materiality. These varied encounters begin in the author's apartment...
Anti-Hero	[ "A.J. Lozier" ]	One man’s journey into, and out of, the movement that foreshadowed the modern-day “Antifa.”	A memoir of one man’s journey into, and out of, the movement that foreshadowed the modern-day “Antifa.” Between 1999-2005, as the nation convulsed with uncertainty over a contested election and the Sept. 11 attacks, A.J. Lozier attended and helped organize protests across the United States, as an active participant in...	A memoir of one man’s journey into, and out of, the movement that foreshadowed the modern-day “Antifa.” Between 1999-2005, as the nation convulsed with uncertainty over a contested election and the Sept. 11 attacks, A.J. Lozier attended and helped organize protests across the United States, as an active participant in...	3	[ "In what is told via a compelling narrative from start to finish, Anti-Hero: Memories of a Black Bloc Anarchist is a book for the ages; a refreshing take, an exposed side of a raging argument of a distorted viewpoint that now gets its day in the sun through Lozier. ~ Anne Carlini, Exclusive Magazine", "Lozier's b...
Anti-Matter	[ "Ben Jeffery" ]	An interrogation of art's ability to face unpleasant truths.	Michel Houellebecq, author of five novels including Atomised and Platform, has become possibly the world’s most famous literary pessimist. His work declares that life is painful and disappointing, death is terrifying, and the human condition is a nasty sort of joke. He has been wildly successful – translated into over ...	Michel Houellebecq, author of five novels including Atomised and Platform, has become possibly the world’s most famous literary pessimist. His work declares that life is painful and disappointing, death is terrifying, and the human condition is a nasty sort of joke. He has been wildly successful – translated into over ...	4	[ "Anti-Matter is an example of the kind of rigorous and refined criticism that one rarely stumbles across these days. ~ Jacques Testard, Times Literary Supplement", "Ben Jeffery's Anti-Matter is the kind of intelligent, sophisticated response to provocative work that affirms criticism's value as art in itself. ......
Architecture of Control, The	[ "Grant Vetter" ]	Grant Vetter develops an entirely new lexicon for analyzing architectural power in the twenty first century.	Through six meditations on the ideology of architecture, Grant Vetter is able to give us an entirely new set of coordinates for understanding social control in the twenty-first century. Moving between historical precedents in the east and the west, Vetter's work reveals a hybrid order of architectural power that acts o...	Through six meditations on the ideology of architecture, Grant Vetter is able to give us an entirely new set of coordinates for understanding social control in the twenty-first century. Moving between historical precedents in the east and the west, Vetter's work reveals a hybrid order of architectural power that acts o...	4	[ "It was functionalist philosopher Jeremy Bentham whose development of the panopticon famously provided the genealogical project of Michel Foucault with the exemplar for a particular social-historical moment. For Foucault, its use of observational techniques to condition the behavior of prisoners superbly articulate...
Architecture of Failure, The	[ "Douglas Murphy" ]	This book proposes a theory of architectural failure; a radical way to approach memory and history in the city.	Against those who consider architecture to be a wholly optimistic activity, this book shows how the history of modern architecture is inextricably tied to ideas of failure and ruin. By means of an original reading of the earliest origins of modernism, The Architecture of Failure exposes the ways in which failure has b...	Against those who consider architecture to be a wholly optimistic activity, this book shows how the history of modern architecture is inextricably tied to ideas of failure and ruin. By means of an original reading of the earliest origins of modernism, The Architecture of Failure exposes the ways in which failure has b...	5	[ "\"The author’s powerful critique of the supposedly radical proponents of architecture is brutal and incisive, a welcome move away from the well-trodden cultural clichés.\"\n\n\"The Architecture of Failure stands out in the growing contemporary literature on ruins for not communicating merely through the frisson of...
Art Kettle, The	[ "Sinead Murphy" ]	Is art a mode of control? Does our desire to create constrain us as effectively as our desire to consume?	In contemporary society, art is that which appears to open up all of those possibilities that our daily lives would close down, with developments in community art, art therapy, and public art extending this seemingly liberating effect to us all. But what if art is a mode of control? What if art operates to kettle us as...	In contemporary society, art is that which appears to open up all of those possibilities that our daily lives would close down, with developments in community art, art therapy, and public art extending this seemingly liberating effect to us all. But what if art is a mode of control? What if art operates to kettle us as...	0	[]
Artist at Work, Proximity of Art and Capitalism	[ "Bojana Kunst" ]	Examining the recent changes in the labour of an artist and addressing them from the perspective of performance.	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 ...	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 ...	4	[ "Artist at Work: Proximity of Art and Capitalism\n\nBojana Kunst\n\nZero Books\n\nc/o John Hunt Publishing, Ltd.\n\nLaurel House, Station Approach, Alresford, Hants, SO24 9JH, UK\n\nwww.johnhuntpublishing.com\n\nPR: [email protected]\n\n9781785350009, $25.95, 241pp, www.amazon.com\n\nSynopsis: The main affirmation ...
Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-porn Addicts	[ "Leigh Phillips" ]	Modernity is not the cause of our ecological woes. Only through a deepening of our modernity can we save the planet.	Economic growth, progress, industry and, erm, stuff have all come in for a sharp kicking from the green left and beyond in recent years. Everyone from black-hoodied Starbucks window-smashers to farmers' market heirloom-tomato-mongers to Prince Charles himself seem to be embracing 'degrowth' and anti-consumerism, which ...	Economic growth, progress, industry and, erm, stuff have all come in for a sharp kicking from the green left and beyond in recent years. Everyone from black-hoodied Starbucks window-smashers to farmers' market heirloom-tomato-mongers to Prince Charles himself seem to be embracing 'degrowth' and anti-consumerism, which ...	0	[]
Awkwardness	[ "Adam Kotsko" ]	Argues that the awkwardness of our age is a key to understanding human experience.	Awkwardness has been one of the defining traits of the awkwardly unnamed first decade of our young century dominating comedy on both the big and small screens. Could this trend point toward something deeper? In Awkwardness Adam Kotsko answers that question with a resounding yes. Drawing on key insights of cultural theo...	Awkwardness has been one of the defining traits of the awkwardly unnamed first decade of our young century dominating comedy on both the big and small screens. Could this trend point toward something deeper? In Awkwardness Adam Kotsko answers that question with a resounding yes. Drawing on key insights of cultural theo...	4	[ "Adam Kotsko’s Awkwardness is the kind of criticism — pertinent, witty, sophisticated but without sophistry — in which one can glimpse a culture that doesn’t quite exist. As with the other essays adapted from blogs and published by Zero Books. Awkwardness, in a different America, would supplant the dumbed-down pop ...

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scraped_at_utc: 2026-03-24T12:45:50.800626+00:00,
source: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/all-books/&s=0,
listing_total_books: 383,
listing_total_pages: 16,
scraped_books: 383,
books_with_reviews: 341,
books_without_reviews: 42.

This dataset contains the list of all the books that have been, as of 17.04.26, published by a British independent philosophical publisher zer0 books founded by Mark Fisher. No copyright infringement had been made, and all the content is scraped from the website of collective ink, the "main" publisher to whom zer0 books are currently an imprint. The dataset includes':

books titles;
authors;
straplines (one-liner bestselling pointlike descriptions/mottos of the books);
summaries (more or less executive);
blurb-like reviews of the readers, mostly niche area experts from the authors own niche research interests in philosophical, paraacademic, theory fiction research the publisher is known in the first turn.

The dataset can be used for fine-tuning the models to create databases of that kind, folowing the pattern, and other instances that can be relevant for all-but-book-text pieces of information about philosophical books. Theoretically, if you have the righteously owned copy of any of the books', you can add chunked books and train the model in creating the bibliographical/catalogue profiles of the books based on the text provided, using my data as a scaffolding. These are just hints, for sure!

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