Volume 10, Issue 4, 2002

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Table of Contents

The Battle of Buenos Aires: Crisis, Insurrection and the Reinvention of Politics in Argentina. Ana Dinerstein

Editorial Introduction. China Miéville

The Dreadful Credibility of Absurd Things: A Tendency in Fantasy Theory. Mark Bould

Through the Eyes of the Fantastic: Lefebvre, Rabelais and Intellectual History. Stuart Elden

Slaves of the Ring: Tolkien’s Political Unconscious. Ishay Landa

Utopianism and Film. Mike Wayne

For the Love of Money. Anna Kornbluh

Magical Urbanism:Walter Benjamin and Utopian Realism in the film Ratcatcher. Alex Law and Jan Law

Fantasy and Judgement: Adorno,Tolkien, Burroughs. Ben Watson

Introduction. Jurriaan Bendien

Anticipation and Hope as Categories of Historical Materialism.  Ernest Mandel

A Note on Marxism and Fantasy. Carl Freedman

Radical Fantasy. Fredric Jameson

Capitalist Monsters. Steve Shaviro

On Patrick Hamilton’s Impromptu in Moribundia. Neil Maycroft

On Carl Freedman’s Critical Theory and Science Fiction. Mark Bould

On Rob Latham’s Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption. Andrew Butler

On Michael Cox’s Rethinking the Soviet Collapse. Sovietology, the Death of Communism and the New Russia; Paresh Chattopadhyay’s The Marxian Concept of Capital and the Soviet Experience and Neil Fernandez’s Capitalism and Class Struggle in the USSR. A Marxist Theory. Mike Haynes

On Werner Bonefeld and Kosmas Psychopedis’s The Politics of Change: Globalization, Ideology and Critique. Tony Smith

Notes on Contributors