Zero as a Limit

I picked up my six complimentary copies of this from the DHL depot in Vauxhall a couple of days ago, after they had been refused by the builders renovating the 'communal' landing of my Rachmanite abode - this copy, meanwhile, is being modelled by Bat. So it exists! You can turn the pages! There are photographs! The whole thing has a nicely Brutalist roughness about it, meaning it will sit ill on coffee tables but will hopefully be read well on buses and when walking the disappearing highwalks of the City of London. The cover in particular looks fine indeed, mainly thanks to the Apollo Pavilion with torn Red Flag contributed by the invaluable Mr Murphy, taken from his 'Pavilions' series.



It can be ordered on Amazon, but like Dominic I recommend you 'support your local independent bookseller by eyeing up the goods on Amazon, then taking careful note of the ISBN and ordering it from the aforementioned brick-and-mortar outlet.' Or, alternatively, you can buy it from me myself at the Zero Books launch in Daunt Books, Marylebone, where there is an interesting Alphaville office block nearby with a sub-Hepworth sculpture attached, which perhaps we can lead a walk towards to pay drunken tribute. Details as follows: Zero Books, a new imprint for philosophy, politics and aesthetics, will be launched on Thursday 23rd April 2009. The first two titles are David Stubbs' Fear of Music, asking the question of why people get Rothko but not Stockhausen, and Owen Hatherley's Militant Modernism, a defence of Modernism against its defenders. There will be wine, crisps and readings from the books, in the genteel setting of Marylebone High Street.

Come to Daunt Books, 83 Marylebone High Street, London W1U 4QW 6.30 -9pm. If you want to attend, please RSVP to zerobooks(at)hotmail.com.