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An imprint for critical theory, cultural criticism and left politics, founded in 2009 by Tariq Goddard and Mark Fisher within John Hunt Publishing, with the aim to "publish books that make our readers uncomfortable"; its early list included Fisher's Capitalist Realism. Goddard and Fisher left in 2014 to found Repeater Books. In October 2021 Watkins Media, Repeater's owner, bought John Hunt Publishing, reuniting Zer0 with its founders' circle, and in June 2023 John Hunt Publishing was renamed Collective Ink. Zer0 remains its largest imprint.

Years

2009–present

Location

United Kingdom

Name history

2009–2021 Zero Books (imprint of John Hunt Publishing)
2021–2023 Zer0 Books (John Hunt Publishing, owned by Watkins Media)
2023–present Zer0 Books (imprint of Collective Ink) — John Hunt Publishing was renamed Collective Ink in June 2023

Also known as

Zero Books · Collective Ink

Affiliation

Imprint of Collective Ink (formerly John Hunt Publishing), owned by Watkins Media since 2021

Languages

English

Website

https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books

Authority records

Wikidata · VIAF

Sources

Wikipedia — Collective Ink; Repeater Books — Reacquiring Zero Books, a statement

Backlist

Titles of Zer0 Books by year: 316 dated titles, 2009–2026, most in 2015 (37). Lines mark founded 2009.

The figures by decade

Decade	Titles
2000s	3
2010s	236
2020s	77

Year	Title	Author(s)	Language
2009	Capitalist Realism✓Free — Is There No Alternative? Zero Books	Mark Fisher	English
2009	One-Dimensional Woman✓	Nina Power	English
2009	The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson✓	Mark Fisher	English
2010	Circus Philosophicus✓	Graham Harman	English
Oct 16, 2010	Classless — Recent Essays on British Film	Carl Neville	Not recorded
2010	Post-cinematic Affect✓ Zero Books	Steven Shaviro	English
2010	Post-continental Voices✓ — Selected Interviews	—	English
2010	The Long Struggle✓ — The Muslim World's Western Problem	Amil Khan	English
2010	The Meaning of David Cameron✓	Richard Seymour	English
2010	Towards Speculative Realism✓ — Essays and Lectures	Graham Harman	English
2010	Towards Speculative Realism Essays and Lectures	Graham Harman	Not recorded
2011	2 Ennerdale Drive Unauthorised Biography	Rosa Ainley	Not recorded
2011	Anti-matter✓ — Michel Houellebecq and Depressive Realism	Ben Jeffery	English
2011	Classless✓ — Recent Essays on British Film	Carl Neville	English
2011	Combined and Uneven Apocalypse✓	Evan Calder Williams	English
2011	Continental Realism✓	Paul John Ennis	English
2011	Dog Days	Linda Coggin	English
2011	Fear of Music✓ — Why People Get Rothko but Don't Get Stockhausen	David Stubbs	English
2011	Horror of Philosophy✓	Eugene Thacker	English
2011	Imaginary Games✓	Chris Bateman	English
2011	In the Dust of This Planet✓ Horror of Philosophy / Eugene Thacker; Vol. 1	Eugene Thacker	English
2011	Infinite Music✓ — Imagining the Next Millennium of Human Music-Making	Adam Harper	English
2011	Meat market✓ — Female flesh under capitalism	Laurie Penny	German
2011	Meat Market✓ — Female Flesh Under Capitalism	Laurie Penny	English
2011	Murder in Notting Hill✓	Mark Olden	English
2011	Nonstop Inertia	Ivor Southwood	English
2011	The Message✓	Tariq Goddard	English
2011	The Politics of Down Syndrome	Kieron Smith	Not recorded
2011	The Prince and the Wolf✓ — Latour and Harman at the LSE Zero Books	Bruno Latour & Graham Harman	English
2011	The Quadruple Object✓	Graham Harman	English
2011	The Wandering Who?✓ — A Study of Jewish Identity Politics	Gilad Atzmon	English
2011	Uncommon✓ — An Essay on Pulp	Owen Hatherley	English
2012	Aesthetics & Alienation✓	Gary Tedman	English
2012	Beyond Capitalism?✓ — The Future of Radical Politics	Luke Cooper & Simon Hardy	English
2012	Beyond the Left✓ — The Communist Critique of the Media	Stephen Harper	English
2012	Brave New Avant Garde✓ — Essays on Contemporary Art and Politics	Marc James Léger	English
2012	Can the Market Speak?✓	Campbell Jones	English
2012	Capitalist Superheroes✓ — Caped Crusaders in the Neoliberal Age	Dan Hassler-Forest	English
2012	Cloud Time✓ — The Inception of the Future	Rob Coley & Dean Lockwood	English
2012	Color, Facture, Art and Design✓ — Artistic Technique and the Precisions of Human Perception	Iona Singh	English
2012	Dead Man Working✓	Carl Cederström	English
2012	Dispirited✓ — How Contemporary Spirituality Is Destroying Our Ability to Think, Depoliticising Society and Making US Miserable	David Webster	English
2012	Eastern spring✓ — A 2nd gen memoir	Neil Kulkarni	Not recorded
2012	Heterotopia✓ — Alternative Pathways to Social Justice	Caroline Baillie, Jens Kabo & John Reader	English
2012	Holes in the Whole✓ — Introduction to the Urban Revolutions	Krzysztof Nawratek	English
2012	ICommunism✓ — Capitalism Promised US Shiny Things but Only Communism Can Deliver Them in a Different, More Liberating, Universal and Sustainable Form	Ciara Cremin	English
2012	No Local✓ — Why Small-Scale Alternatives Won't Change the World EBL-Schweitzer	Greg Sharzer	English
2012	Outside the Revolution, Everything✓ — A Redefinition of Left-Wing Identity in Contemporary Cuban Music Making	Tom Astley	English
2012	Politics of Indignation✓ — Imperialism, Postcolonial Disruptions and Social Change	Peter Mayo	English
2012	Slime Dynamics✓ — Generation, Mutation, and the Creep of Life	Ben Woodard	English
2012	Superactually✓ — Micro-Essays on Post-Ironic Life	Chuk Moran	English
2012	The Age of Nixon✓ — A Study in Cultural Power	Carl Howard Freedman	English
2012	The Architecture of Control✓ — A Contribution to the Critique of the Science of Apparatuses	Grant Vetter	English
2012	The Architecture of Failure✓	Douglas Murphy	English
2012	The Art Kettle✓	Sinéad Murphy	English
2012	The Expanding World✓ — Towards a Politics of Microspection	Michael Cronin	English
2012	The Ringtone and the Drum✓ — Travels in the World's Poorest Countries	Mark Weston	English
2012	Under Foreign Eyes✓ — Western Cinematic Adaptions of Postwar Japan	James King	English
2012	Weird Realism✓ — Lovecraft and Philosophy	Graham Harman	English
2012	Why Are We the Good Guys?✓ — Reclaiming Your Mind from the Delusions of Propaganda	David Cromwell	English
2012	Why We Love Sociopaths✓ — A Guide to Late Capitalist Television	Adam Kotsko	English
2012	Writing Urban Space✓ — Exploring the Relationship Between Imaginative Writing and the Built Environment	Liam Murray Bell & Gavin Goodwin	English
2013	Bell and Whistles✓ — More Speculative Realism	Graham Harman	English
2013	Bells and Whistles✓ — More Speculative Realism	Graham Harman	English
2013	Can the Market Speak?✓	Campbell Jones	English
2013	Clampdown: Pop-Cultural Wars on Class and Gender✓	Rhian E. Jones	English
2013	Dreams That Die✓ — Misadventures in Hollywood	J. Wight	English
2013	Failure, a Writer's Life✓	Joe Milutis	English
2013	Film, Nihilism and the Restoration of Belief✓	Darren Ambrose	English
2013	Ghosts of My Life✓ — Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures	Mark Fisher	English
2013	Greece and the Eurozone Crisis: What Is to Be Done?✓ — A Pamphlet A Pamphlet	Karl Heinz Roth	English
2013	Greece: What Is to Be Done?: A Pamphlet	Karl Heinz Roth	English
2013	Heterotopia — Alternative Pathways to Social Justice	Caroline Baillie, Jens Kabo & John Reader	English
2013	How to Like Everything — A Utopia	Paul Shepheard	English
2013	Hungry Capital✓ — The Financialization of Food	Luigi Russi	English
2013	Literary Freedom✓ — A Cultural Right to Literature	Heather McRobie	English
2013	Look at the Bunny✓ — Totem, Taboo, Technology	Dominic Pettman	English
2013	On the Unhappiness of Being Greek	Nikos Dimou	Not recorded
2013	Parched City✓ — A History of London's Public and Private Drinking Water	Emma M. Jones	English
2013	Physical Resistance✓ — Or Hundred Years of Anti-fascism	Dave Hann	English
2013	Rowdy Entrepreneurs and Insecure Dinosaurs✓ — Popular Strategies for Innovation After the End of Endings	Murat Karamuftuoglu	English
2013	The End of Oulipo?✓ — An Attempt to Exhaust a Movement	Lauren Elkin & Scott Esposito	English
2013	The European Union and the End of Politics✓	James Heartfield	English
2013	The Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame✓	David J. Blacker	English
2013	The Human Rights Manifesto	Julie Wark	Not recorded
2013	The Last Night✓ — Anti-work, Atheism, Adventure	Federico Campagna	English
2013	The Neoliberal Undead✓ — Essays on Contemporary Art and Politics	James Marc Léger	English
2013	The People v Tony Blair Politics the Media and the Antiwar Movement	Chris Nineham	Not recorded
2013	The People v. Tony Blair✓ — Politics, the Media and the Anti-war Movement	Chris Nineham	English
2013	The Prisoner's Dilemma	Sean Stuart O'Connor	English
2013	The Truth About Art✓ — Reclaiming Quality	Patrick Doorly	English
2013	Translating Anarchy✓ — The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street	Mark Bray	English
2013	Vagabond Witness — Victor Serge and the Politics of Hope	Paul Gordon	English
2013	Where the Beast Is Buried✓	Joanna Rajkowska	English
2014	10/40/70✓ — Constraint as Liberation in the Era of Digital Film Theory	Nicholas Rombes	English
2014	BioShock✓ — Decision, Forced Choice and Propaganda	Robert Jackson undifferentiated	English
2014	Capitalised Education✓ — An Immanent Materialist Account of Kate Middleton	David R. Cole	English
2014	Cyber Disobedience✓ — Re://presenting Online Anarchy	Jeff Shantz	English
2014	Enlightenment Interrupted✓ — The Lost Moment of German Idealism and the Reactionary Present	Michael Steinberg	English
2014	Ghosts of My Life✓ — Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures Futuros Proximos #15	Mark Fisher	English
2014	Grave Desire — A Cultural History of Necrophilia	Steve Finbow	Not recorded
2014	In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy Vol. 1	—	Not recorded
Oct 31, 2014	Malign Velocities✓ — Accelerationism & Capitalism	Benjamin Noys	English
2014	Melancology✓ — Black Metal Theory and Ecology	Scott Wilson	English
2014	Networkologies✓ — A Philosophy of Networks for a Hyperconnected Age - A Manifesto	Christopher Vitale	English
2014	Night of the World✓ — Traversing the Ideology of Objectivity	Frank Smecker	English
2014	OccupyMedia!✓ — The Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis Capitalism	Christian Fuchs	English
2014	Open Book Theater Management✓ — Ethical Theater Production	Rafe Beckley	English
2014	Pantomime Terror✓ — Music and Politics	John Hutnyk	English
2014	Politics by Other Means✓ — Selected Criticism from Review 31	Alison Hugill & Houman Barekat	English
2014	Poor but Sexy✓ — Culture Clashes in Europe East and West	Agata Pyzik	English
2014	Remapping Crisis✓ — A Guide to Athens	Myrto Tsilimpounidi & Aylwyn Walsh	English
2014	Rules Without Rulers✓ — The Possibilities and Limits of Anarchism	Matthew Wilson	English
2014	Serial Agencies✓ — The Wire and Its Readers	Frank Kelleter	English
2014	Small Towns, Austere Times✓ — The Dialectics of Deracinated Localism	Steve Hanson	English
2014	Tentacles Longer than Night✓ Horror of Philosophy; Vol. 3	Eugene Thacker	English
2014	That Option No Longer Exists✓ — Britain 1974-76	John Medhurst	English
2014	The Productive Body✓	François Guery & Didier Deleule	English
2014	The Thing✓ — A Phenomenology of Horror	Dylan Trigg	English
2014	Unmaking Merlin✓ — Anarchist Tendencies in English Literature Literary Criticism	Elliot Murphy	English
2014	Working the Aisles✓ — A Life in Consumption	Robert Appelbaum	English
2015	A Diet of Austerity✓ — Class, Food and Climate Change	Elaine Graham-Leigh	English
2015	Against Capitalist Education✓ — What Is Education For?	Nadim Bakhshov	English
2015	Artist at Work, Proximity of Art and Capitalism✓ Zero Books	Bojana Kunst	English
2015	Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts✓ — A Defence of Growth, Progress, Industry and Stuff	Leigh Phillips	English
2015	Austerity Ecology and the Collapse-Porn Addicts — A Defence of Growth, Progress, Industry and Stuff	Leigh Phillips	English
2015	Biopolitical Imperialism✓	Mark G. E. Kelly	English
2015	Boredom and Art✓ — Passions of the Will to Boredom	Julian Jason Haladyn	English
2015	Cartographies of the Absolute✓ Zer0 Books; 2	Alberto Toscano	English
2015	Creepiness✓	Adam Kotsko	English
2015	Digesting Recipes✓ — The Art of Culinary Notation	Susannah Worth	English
2015	Don't Lose Track — 40 Selected Articles, Essays and Q&As	Jordannah Elizabeth	English
2015	Drone and Apocalypse — An Exhibit Catalog for the End of the World	Joanna Demers	English
Dec 11, 2015	Enjoying It✓ — Candy Crush and Capitlism	Alfie Bown	English
2015	F. M. R. L. — Footnotes, Mirages, Refrains and Leftovers of Writing Sound	Daniela Cascella	English
2015	Hidden Valleys — Haunted by the Future	Justin Barton	English
2015	How to Dismantle the NHS in 10 Easy Steps✓	Youssef El-Gingihy	English
2015	Ignoble Displacement✓ — Dispossessed Capital in Neo-Dickensian London	Stephanie Polsky	English
2015	Infinite Fictions✓ — Essays on Literature and Theory	David Winters	English
2015	Is the East Still Red?✓ — Socialism and the Market in China	Gary Blank	English
2015	Pornography Feminism — As Powerful as She Wants to Be	Rich Moreland	Not recorded
2015	Positive Realism	Maurizio Ferraris	English
2015	Pro Bono?	Mikkel Thorup	English
2015	Psychology and Capitalism✓ — The Manipulation of Mind	Ron Roberts	English
2015	Rebel Rebel✓ — All the Songs of David Bowie from '64 to '76	Chris (Blogger) O'Leary	English
2015	Resilience & Melancholy✓ — Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism	Robin James	English
2015	Romeo and Juliet in Palestine✓ — Teaching Under Occupation	Tom Sperlinger	English
2015	Seen and Not Seen✓ — Confessions of a Movie Autist	Jason Horsley	English
2015	Shooting the Moon✓	Brian Willems	English
2015	Slave States✓ — The Practice of Kafala in the Gulf Arab Region	Yasin Kakande	English
2015	Starry Speculative Corpse✓ — Horror of Philosophy Horror of Philosophy / Eugene Thacker; Vol. 2	Eugene Thacker	English
2015	Superstructural Berlin✓ — A Superstructural Tourist Guide to Berlin for the Visitor and the New Resident	Nicolas Hausdorf & Alexander Goller	English
2015	Tentacles Longer than Night✓ — Horror of Philosophy Horror of Philosophy / Eugene Thacker; Vol. 3	Eugene Thacker	English
2015	The Media Against Democracy✓	Thomas Field	English
2015	This Space of Writing✓	Stephen Mitchelmore	English
2015	Vade Mecum✓ — Essays, Reviews & Interviews	Richard Skinner	English
2015	We Have Never Been Neoliberal✓ — A Manifesto for a Doomed Youth	Kean Birch	English
2015	Who's Afraid of the Easter Rising? 1916-2016✓	James Heartfield	English
2016	Against Capital✓ — Experiences of Class Struggle and Rethinking Revolutionary Agency	Cliff Slaughter	English
2016-07-29	Airplane Reading	Christopher Schaberg & Mark Yakich	Not recorded
2016	Aubrey de Grey	Douglas Lain	English
2016	Babbling Corpse✓ — Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts	Grafton Tanner	English
2016	Blowing the Lid — Gay Liberation, Sexual Revolution and Radical Queens	Stuart Feather	English
2016	Can Architecture Be an Emancipatory Project?✓ — Dialogues on Architecture and the Left	Nadir Z. Lahiji	English
2016	Centring the Margins✓ — Essays and Reviews	Jeff Bursey	English
2016	Colloquium: Sound Art and Music✓	Thomas Gardner & Salomé Voegelin	English
2016	Colloquium: Sound Art-Music✓	Thomas Gardner & Salomé Voegelin	English
2016	Continuity and Rupture✓ — Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain	J. Moufawad-Paul	English
2016	Daniel Defoe and the Bank of England — The Dark Arts of Projectors	Valerie Hamilton & Martin Parker	English
2016	Dark Matters✓ — A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City	Nick Dunn	English
2016	Defiance: Greece and Europe✓	Roger Silverman & Eric Taoussaint	English
2016	Don't Lose Track — 40 Selected Articles, Essays and Q&As	Jordannah Elizabeth	English
2016	Dynamo Island✓ — The Cultural History and Geography of a Utopia	David Scott	English
2016	In the Realm of the Senses✓ — A Materialist Theory of Seeing and Feeling	Stuart Walton	English
2016	It's Not Over✓ — Learning from the Socialist Experiment	Pete Dolack	English
2016	Lazarus in the Multiple — Awakening to the Era of Complexity	Camaren Peter	English
2016	Officious✓ — Rise of the Busybody State	Josie Appleton	English
2016	Porn Panic!✓ — Sex and Censorship in the UK	Jerry Barnett	English
2016	The World of Failing Machines✓ — Speculative Realism and Literature	Grant Hamilton	English
2016-03-25	TOWIE - The Only Way Is Eton — Why Young People Don't Vote	Mitchell Agg	Not recorded
2016	Why Young People Don't Vote✓	Mitchell Agg	English
2016	Zen City✓	Eliot Fintushel	English
2017	A Serf's Journal✓ — The Story of the United States' Longest Wildcat Strike	Terry Tapp	English
2017	Deconstructing Dirty Dancing✓	Stephen Lee Naish	English
2017	Fire Hides Everywhere	Julian Feeld	English
2017	Georgian Portraits✓ — Essays on the Afterlives of a Revolution	Martin Demant Frederiksen & Katrine Bendtsen Gotfredsen	English
2017	Henry, Henry✓	Brian Willems	English
2017	Kill All Normies✓ — The Online Culture Wars from Tumblr and 4chan to the Alt-Right and Trump	Angela Nagle	English
2017	Lenin Lives!✓ — Reimagining the Russian Revolution, 1917-2017	Philip Cunliffe	English
2017	Neglected or Misunderstood: Introducing Theodor Adorno✓	Stuart Walton	English
2017	Punk Is Dead✓ — Modernity Killed Every Night	Richard Cabut & Andrew Gallix	English
Dec 08, 2017	Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left✓	Ian Parker	English
2017	The Writing on the Wall✓ — On the Decomposition of Capitalism and Its Critics	Anselm Jappe & Jaime Semprun	English
2017	Uncertain Futures✓ — An Assessment of the Conditions of the Present	Edmund Berger	English
2018	After the Great Refusal — Essays on Contemporary Art, Its Contradictions and Difficulties	Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen	English
Dec 14, 2018	All Things Are Nothing to Me✓ — The Unique Philosophy of Max Stirner	Jacob Blumenfeld	English
Dec 01, 2018	America and Other Fictions✓ — On Radical Faith and Post-religion	Simon	English
2018	An Anthropology of Nothing in Particular✓	Martin Demant Frederiksen	English
2018	Capitalism on Campus✓ — Sex Work, Academic Freedom and the Market	Ron Roberts	English
2018	Capitalism vs. Freedom✓	Rob (Lecturer in economics) Larson	English