Zone Books Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Zone Books on XFounded in 85, Zone Books is an independent nonprofit publisher of philosophy, art history, theory, and political science.

Flashback, Eclipse: The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s
Romy Golan"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
Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation
Michel Callon"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
1668: The Year of the Animal in France
Peter SahlinsUp 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
Transfixed by Prehistory: An Inquiry Into Modern Art and Time
Maria Stavrinaki"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
Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature
Florian FuchsZone 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
Preexisting Conditions: Recounting the Plague
Samuel Weber"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
Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth
Matthew Fuller“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
The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning
Gary Tomlinson“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
Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution
Wendy BrownAhead 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
Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History
Timothy Hampton"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