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Book Reviews | Alexander Billet

Re-enchanting the Moving Image: On Julia Alekseyeva’s Antifascism and the Avant-Garde

There was a time when the works of Agnes Varda, Chris Marker, and Matsumoto Toshio were lauded as innovative and revelatory well outside the ranks of film school aesthetes and underground video stores, when they reached into at least the fringes of mainstream discourse.

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article | Paramjit Singh

Why Talking About the Oil-Dollar Nexus Is Important

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Book Reviews | Stephen Miller

Revolution and the Modern State: A Review of Eren Duzgun, Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations: Revisiting Turkish Modernity

article | Etienne Balibar

Berlinguer and Spinelli: Europe as Dreamt by Italian Eurocommunism

article | Kristin Ciupa

The Contemporary Political Economy of Venezuelan Oil in Historical Perspective

article | Omid Mehrgan

Iran: To Suture the Stateless Subject

article | Juan Grigera

Carlo Ginzburg, Marcos and Adolfo Gilly

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History of The Austrian Council Movement 1918–24

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