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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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Why Talking About the Oil-Dollar Nexus Is Important

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

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Berlinguer and Spinelli: Europe as Dreamt by Italian Eurocommunism

VOLUME 33, ISSUE 1, 2025

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History of The Austrian Council Movement 1918–24

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

Why Talking About the Oil-Dollar Nexus Is Important

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

Berlinguer and Spinelli: Europe as Dreamt by Italian Eurocommunism

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VOLUME 33, ISSUE 3, 2025