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08/14/2024

Join us in Brooklyn this Saturday at
BOMB Magazine’s Small Press Flea! Zone will be there, tabling alongside so many of our favorite small and indie presses. August 17th from 10am-4pm at Amant!

08/12/2024

In observance of Women in Translation Month, two new works in the life sciences written and translated by women, BIOLOGICAL MOTION: A HISTORY OF LIFE by Janina Wellmann and OF HUMAN BORN: FETAL LIVES 1800-1950 by Caroline Arni. Both translated by Kate Sturge.

08/09/2024

"Judgements around childlessness were always there...it weighs on women in a way it doesn’t on men because of our asymmetric understanding of female bodies as bearers of family lineage."

Melinda Cooper interviewed in Mother Jones on JD Vance's "Cat Ladies."

Melinda Cooper on the history of “family values.”

07/24/2024

For a recent episode of the podcast Red Medicine, Melinda Cooper discusses how public austerity and private extravagance characterizes the neoliberal political project, as pertains to her new book COUNTERREVOLUTION.

Melinda Cooper describes the combination of austerity and extravagance that characterizes neoliberal monetary policy and how these ideas emerged from the crises of the 1970s. Melinda Cooper is Professor in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University. She is the author of Family Val...

07/19/2024

"Whenever something interior and childlike featured in an image, the generative properties of the female body appeared as qualities of concealment: egg, wrapper, nest."

Samuel Thomas Sommerring's Icones embryonum humanorum, as discussed in OF HUMAN BORN by Caroline Arni.

07/15/2024

Fans of acclaimed Medieval historian Caroline Walker Bynum, check out the symposium on her work put out by Common Knowledge this past winter. Zone has published multiple texts by Bynum over the years. See below!

https://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/issue/30/1

07/10/2024

"Screening Fears demonstrates the ongoing productivity of media history to understand our digital present, not characterised by relentless novelty and permanent disruption, as the tycoons of the digital age want us to believe, but rather by continuity and transformation."

Francesco Casetti's SCREENING FEARS: ON PROTECTIVE MEDIA reviewed in Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media.

06/18/2024

Tonight! e-flux hosts the final installment of Phoenix Cinema, a program on the work of Alexander Kluge, author of HISTORY AND OBSTINACY. The evening will feature a screening of Kluge's films and a conversation with Sarah Morris. 7pm!

Princeton University Press

The fourth and closing event of Phoenix Cinema: Meeting with Alexander Kluge, a special series featuring works by and discussions with the filmmaker and author.

06/13/2024

“Koering treats his subject with scholarly rigor without losing his visceral delight in its inherent bizarreness. The result is a unique and fascinating consideration of the meaning and power of art, food, and ritual.”

Jérémie Koering's ICONOPHAGES: A HISTORY OF INGESTING IMAGES (on sale August 20) reviewed in Publishers Week.

In this adroit English-language debut, Koering, an art history professor at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, surveys t...

06/10/2024

Forthcoming this fall, Zone is excited to present ICONOPHAGES: A HISTORY OF INGESTING IMAGES by Jérémie Koering (Tr. Nicholas Huckle), an unprecedented art-historical account of practices of image ingestion from ancient Egypt to the twentieth century.

Now available for preorder!

https://www.zonebooks.org/books/158-iconophages-a-history-of-ingesting-images

06/06/2024

Just went to print with covers for THE ORGANIC LINE : TOWARD A TOPOLOGY OF MODERNISM, a new book by Irene Small which rethinks twentieth-century abstract art through the work of Brazilian artist Lygia Clark.

Coming this August from Zone!

https://www.zonebooks.org/books/159-the-organic-line-toward-a-topology-of-modernism

06/03/2024

"Counterrevolution provides an exemplary history of ideas and elites, but in foregrounding the asset form with which we are most intimately connected, it also offers a crucial history of our unhappy present that makes complete sense."

Melinda Cooper's COUNTERREVOLUTION EXTRAVAGANCE AND AUSTERITY IN PUBLIC FINANCE reviewed by William Davies in The New Statesman.

Family-owned firms now sit at the heart of America’s fraying democracy.

05/20/2024

Later on, they are in a garden.
He remembered there were gardens.

Chris Marker's LA JETÉE: CINÉ-ROMAN

05/15/2024

Discounting is both a formula and a form of reasoning, which basically states that the value of all things comes from the temporality of the future, rather than the past or the present. This future, in order to be accounted for, needs to be translated into the present."

Liliana Doganova interviewed about her book DISCOUNTING THE FUTURE. Now up at New Books Network.

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05/13/2024

Up today at The Baffler, check out this interview with Melinda Cooper, as she discusses her new book COUNTERREVOLUTION: EXTRAVAGANCE AND AUSTERITY IN PUBLIC FINANCE with Benjamin Kunkel.

Benjamin Kunkel talks with Melinda Cooper about how the fringe ideas of a set of American neoliberals became a new and pervasive way of life.

05/09/2024

In case you missed it in person a few weeks ago, check out the video of our event with Melinda Cooper and Liliana Doganova, as the two authors present their new books, COUNTERREVOLUTION and DISCOUNTING THE FUTURE, in conversation with Geoff Mann and Daniela Gabor. Huge thanks to our friends at The Center for the Humanities for hosting!

"CAPITAL VALUES" is double book launch and discussion of two new titles from the Zone Books Near Futures series, Melinda Cooper's "Counterrevolution:…

05/06/2024

Coming up this Saturday 5/11 at Red Emma’s, join us for an event with Melinda Cooper and Lester Spence, as they discuss Cooper's new book COUNTERREVOLUTION.

See below to RSVP!

https://redemmas.org/events/melinda-cooper-presents-counterrevolution-extravagance-and-austerity-in-public-finance-in-conversation-w-lester-spence/