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For the late Marxist art critic John Berger, cinema was a collaboration in which spectators helped make meaning rather than passively consume images. Our essay of the week by @cvall96 in @brooklynrail connects that idea to his account of Cubist montage, his novel G., and films made with Alain Tanner.

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How does writing across languages shape a literary voice? Our podcast of the week, courtesy of @chinabksreview, explores translating Sally Rooney’s prose into Chinese and why its sincere treatment of relationships resonates with Chinese readers, especially women.

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For many years, environmentalists — and even many Marxists — believed that Marx held a Promethean viewpoint and that he was uncritical of the technology developed under capitalism. But as our video of the week featuring @koheisaito0131 at @georgetownuniversity argues, Marx's late notebooks offer a vision of degrowth communism for the 21st century.

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📸: Lavinya.Net by @syllabus_inst

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As the US share of global production and trade continues to decline, talk of the coming end of dollar hegemony has resurfaced once again. Yet as our book of the week on @uchicagopress explains, the dollar's persistence relies on the security umbrella that the US offers to the world’s wealthiest countries.

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Best known as the de facto business chief of Abu Dhabi’s wealthy ruling family, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan has quietly risen in recent years to become a major player in AI infrastructure and investment. Our essay of the week in @guardian profiles the man behind UAE’s tech-security empire.

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While brazen and disproportionate, the US's designation of the Italian hacktivist collective Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist is not unique. As our podcast of the week with @margaretkilljoy details, the action is part of a long history of US intervention in Italian politics.

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Delivery app workers, Indigenous communities, land occupations, and urban movements in Brazil confront a common problem: securing livelihoods and territory as state support declines. Our video of the week featuring @gabriel__tupinamba at @alameda.institute argues that capitalism increasingly operates through "peripheralization."

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📸: Michael Starkie/Unsplash by @syllabus_inst

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Founded in 1979 to restore the principles of the American founding, the Claremont Institute began as a home for conservative political philosophers but has since become a key part of the MAGA movement. Our book of the week, out now on @kansas_press, traces how the Institute shapes US conservatism.

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With governments buying stakes in AI firms, chipmakers, mining companies, and defense contractors, a new political economy is fueling geopolitical and imperialist scrambles abroad, while deepening illiberalism at home. Our essay of the week in @illiberalism.gwu traces the rise of imperial state capitalism.

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The retreat from neoliberal globalization is signalling a new political-economic order that combines free-market policies at home with protectionism abroad. Our podcast of the week maps the implications of this shift for the next century of the global economy.

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The rise of neoclassical models that treat people as isolated, rational actors and the Cold War purge of Marxist and other heterodox approaches from economics departments severed the link between politics and economics. Our video of the week, courtesy of @instituteofartandideas, calls for repoliticizing economics.

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📸: Elyse Chia/Unsplash by @syllabus_inst

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When does a greyish mass become a brain? Drawing on Foucault's account of the medical gaze, our book of the week by @benoitploiseau on @fitzcarraldoeditions examines five 20th-century clinics that tried to loosen doctor-led control through preventive care, patient self-help, and community participation.

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