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Founded in 85, Zone Books is an independent nonprofit publisher of philosophy, art history, theory, and political science.

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Book Cover for: Flashback, Eclipse: The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s, Romy Golan

Flashback, Eclipse: The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s

Romy Golan
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"A beautifully written, deeply researched, and ground-breaking book." Anthony White reviews Romy Golan's FLASHBACK, ECLIPSE in the latest issue of @AAH_Journal. https://t.co/OZlWg0lheZ

Hardcover, 2021

$39.95Member price:$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation, Michel Callon

Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation

Michel Callon
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"Instead of vainly fighting capitalism, Callon employs his thirty years of sociology of economics to explore how market devices could be collectively redesigned to fulfill more progressive functions." Bruno Latour on Michel Callon's MARKETS IN THE MAKING. https://t.co/rPfhGZWgHU https://t.co/fjHhNZye3K

Hardcover, 2021

$35.00Member price:$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: 1668: The Year of the Animal in France, Peter Sahlins

1668: The Year of the Animal in France

Peter Sahlins
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Up today at @PublicDomainRev, read an adapted essay by Peter Sahlins, excerpted from his book 1668: THE YEAR OF THE ANIMAL IN FRANCE. Beast in the Blood: Jean Denis and the “Transfusion Affair” https://t.co/bO4x0NZpIZ

Hardcover, 2017

$45.00Member price:$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Transfixed by Prehistory: An Inquiry Into Modern Art and Time, Maria Stavrinaki

Transfixed by Prehistory: An Inquiry Into Modern Art and Time

Maria Stavrinaki
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"Arrived in the dark. The dark takes us back to the foundation, the origin." —Henri Michaux Epigraph to Maria Stavrinaki's TRANSFIXED BY PREHISTORY: AN INQUIRY INTO MODERN ART AND TIME (tr. Marie Jane Todd). https://t.co/mtfJz4wOb9

Hardcover, 2022

$38.00Member price:$19.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature, Florian Fuchs

Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature

Florian Fuchs
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Zone is thrilled to announce our latest spring title, CIVIC STORYTELLING: THE RISE OF SHORT FORMS AND THE AGENCY OF LITERATURE by @FuchsFlrn. Out today in the US! https://t.co/biyIMuTmNy https://t.co/udYy3MZlvb

Hardcover, 2023

$29.95Member price:$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Preexisting Conditions: Recounting the Plague, Samuel Weber

Preexisting Conditions: Recounting the Plague

Samuel Weber
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"Preexisting Conditions examines historical accounts of plagues written over the last two millennia, from the Bible to Camus... its publication now is timely." This week in @monsterisland, @motnedwob reviews Samuel Weber's PREEXISTING CONDITIONS. https://t.co/Ct1PKcF2Gj

Hardcover, 2022

$32.00Member price:$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth, Matthew Fuller

Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth

Matthew Fuller
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“Colonialism is not simply about the occupation of land, the building of settlements, the abuse of resources… but a certain epistemology that needs to be broken.” Investigative Aesthetics: Eyal Weizman Interviewed by Rhoda Feng - @BOMBmagazine https://t.co/eG67DCeqpc

Paperback, 2021

$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning, Gary Tomlinson

The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning

Gary Tomlinson
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“Meaning making is not a human monopoly. Nor is it available to all creatures great and small.” Gary Tomlinson's THE MACHINES OF EVOLUTION AND THE SCOPE OF MEANING in @insidehighered's spring books roundup. https://t.co/ryz1YnM6Hd

Hardcover, 2023

$29.95Member price:$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution, Wendy Brown

Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution

Wendy Brown
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Ahead of her recent keynote speech, here's a compelling conversation with Wendy Brown & Maximillian Alvarez at the Media, Inequality, and Change Center, as they discuss Neoliberalism, the corrosion of democracy, and her book, UNDOING THE DEMOS. https://t.co/U8llWhj7W6

Paperback, 2017

$22.95Member price:$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History, Timothy Hampton

Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History

Timothy Hampton
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"Hampton teases out the internal contradiction in American society whereby buoyant spirits have become ‘a form of self-consolation’." Timothy Hampton's CHEERFULNESS: A LITERARY & CULTURAL HISTORY reviewed in The London Magazine. https://t.co/YQPrOqALPL https://t.co/u3E9kHQSgD

Hardcover, 2022

$32.00Member price:$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book