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08/24/2026

For an in depth conversation about Annie McClanahan's BENEATH THE WAGE: TIPS, TASKS, AND GIGS IN THE AGE OF SERVICE WORK, check out the latest episode of the VARN Vlog to listen to a long form interview with McClanahan, as she discusses the book with host C. Derick Varn.

Welcome back to the Vlog. Today, we are joined by Dr. Annie McClana...

08/19/2026

The dog days are officially upon us. Zone isn’t exactly known for beach reads, but what is summer without breathing, singing, capitalism?

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08/13/2026

Just released from Echo Point Books, the first official audiobook of Guy Debord’s seminal work, THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE is now available!

See the link below to find it. Also available on all audio platforms.

Few 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 the present, the volatile theses of this work have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capital...

08/10/2026

A suite of Zone's women in translation...

08/06/2026

“An illuminating study of service jobs… Beneath the Wage challenges us to think about the gig economy in its proper context: as just the latest incarnation of service work in a long history under capitalism, one that has seen waves of technological change, all of which have subjected service workers to deskilling and labour intensification.”

BENEATH THE WAGE by Annie McClanahan reviewed in the Gig Economy Project.

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08/03/2026

An interview with Paul Langley & Andrew Leyshon, authors of FINTECH CAPITAL: THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF EVERYDAY MONEY AND FINANCE. Listen at New Books Network!

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07/30/2026

From Wendy Brown’s UNDOING THE DEMOS and Melinda Cooper’s FAMILY VALUES, to Quinn Slobodian’s National Book Critics Circle Award winning HAYEK’S BASTARDS, Annie McClanahan’s BENEATH THE WAGE, and just released this month, FINTECH CAPITAL by Paul Langley & Andrew Leyshon, the NEAR FUTURES series was founded by Michel Feher and Wendy Brown in 2015. It is now 11 titles deep and counting!

https://www.zonebooks.org/books/series/2-near-futures-series

07/27/2026

“What this book calls ‘the age of service work’ is not just a new way to describe the recent present. Nor is it yet another name for the postindustrial era that began in the 1960s when services-providing labor expanded while goods-producing labor contracted...Once we realize that service work is neither exceptional nor anachronistic, we will begin to grasp that its defining features are not residual processes or temporary exceptions, but the abiding and enduring tendencies of wage labor under capital.”

From the introduction of BENEATH THE WAGE: TIPS, TASKS, AND GIGS IN THE AGE OF SERVICE WORK by Annie McClanahan. Now in its second printing!
https://www.zonebooks.org/books/293-beneath-the-wage-tips-tasks-and-gigs-in-the-age-of-service-work

07/22/2026

“Another wave of time washes over him… now she is asleep in the sun.”

Chris Marker’s LA JETÉE: CINÉ-ROMAN
https://www.zonebooks.org/books/65-la-jetee-cine-roman

07/16/2026

New from our NEAR FUTURES series, Zone is thrilled to present FINTECH CAPITAL: THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF EVERYDAY MONEY AND FINANCE by Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon. Out now in the US!

https://www.zonebooks.org/books/325-fin-tech-capital-the-digital-transformation-of-everyday-money-and-finance