Books from Zone Books
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The Society of the Spectacle
By Guy DebordFew works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s to...
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Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image
By Christopher P. HeuerIn Into the White, Heuer uses five case studies to probe how the early modern Arctic (as site, myth, and ecology) affected contemporary debates over perception and matter, representation, discovery, and the time of the earth—long before ...
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Bob Dylan's Poetics: How the Songs Work
By Timothy HamptonIn this book, Timothy Hampton focuses on the details and nuances of Dylan's songs, showing how they work as artistic statements designed to create meaning and elicit emotion.
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Formless: A User's Guide
By Yve-alain Bois, Rosalind E. Krauss, Centre Georges PompidouIn a work that will become indispensable to anyone seriously interested in modern art, Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss introduce a new constellation of concepts to our understanding of avant-garde...
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Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive
By Giorgio Agamben"In its form, this book is a kind of perpetual commentary on testimony. It did not seem possible to proceed otherwise. At a certain point, it became clear that testimony...
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The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
By Adi Ophir, Michal Givoni, Sārī ḤanafīOn the eve of its fifth decade, the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territories can no longer be considered a temporary aberration. In the shadow of the Oslo process, the...
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A Society Without Fathers Or Husbands: The Na of China
By Hua, Cai HuaThe Na of China, farmers in the Himalayan region, live without the institution of marriage. Na brothers and sisters live together their entire lives, raising the women's children. Since, like...
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The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations
By Daniel Heller-RoazenThe pirate is the original enemy of humankind. Before humanitarian organizations, human rights, and the establishment of international law in the early modern period, the Roman statesmen already made this...
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Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750
By Katharine Park, Lorraine DastonA rich exploration of how European naturalists used wonder and wonders (oddities and marvels) to envision and explain the natural world.Winner of the History of Science Society's Pfizer Prize"This book...
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Aby Warburg and the Image in Motion
By Philippe-Alain MichaudAby Warburg (1866-1929) is best known as the originator of the discipline of iconology and as the founder of the institute that bears his name. His followers included such celebrated...
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Chaosophy
By Félix GuattariEverything is rational in capitalism, except capital or capitalism itself. The stock market is certainly rational; one can understand it, study it, capitalists know how to use it, and yet...
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The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture
By Georges BatailleThe Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning thirty years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and philosophy. These were neither...
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In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal
By Niklaus LargierThe emotional and sensual, religious and erotic excitement of the whip, a crucial instrument of stimulation in devotional and sexual practices, as seen in religious, literary, and medical texts and...
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Human Rights in Political Transitions: Gettysburg to Bosnia
By Robert Post, Carla Alison HesseRe-inventing the spy story for the 21st Century.John Le Carre meets Jason Bourne!Daniel Marchant, a suspended MI6 officer, is running the London Marathon. He is also running out of time....
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Fearless Speech
By Joseph Pearson, Michel FoucaultI would like to distinguish between the 'history of ideas' and the 'history of thought.' The history of ideas involves the analysis of a notion from its birth, through its...
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Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection
By Katharine ParkToward the end of the Middle Ages, medical writers and philosophers began to devote increasing attention to what they called "women's secrets," by which they meant female sexuality and generation....
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Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty
By Georges DumaGeorges Dumézil, founder of the new comparative mythology, discovered that all Indo-European religions are articulated according to three hierarchical functions: sacred sovereignty, force, and fecundity. In Mitra-Varuna he develops this...
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A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem
By Georges CanguilhemGeorges Canguilhem is one of France's foremost historians of science. Trained as amedical doctor as well as a philosopher, he combined these practices to demonstrate to philosophersthat there could be...
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Action and Reaction: The Life and Adventures of a Couple
By Jean StarobinskiA study of the word pair "action and reaction" embracing philosophy, semantics, literature, and science.What do biologists mean when they say that to live is to react? Why was the...
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Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation
By Thomas Walter LaqueurAt a time when almost any victimless sexual practice has its public advocates and almost every sexual act is fit for the front page, the easiest, least harmful, and most...