Searching for Re-Enchantment
Julia AlekseyevaReflections on art, film, politics, and everything in between, with an eye for things that help humans fall back in love with life in an age of political catastrophe. Posts and opinions are my own and do not reflect my institution.
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Favorite April/May Films from Sci to Fi to Doc
I've recently been reflecting on the obsessing overlap between speculative and documentary genres. There are so many films these days that, even if not explicitly in the sci-fi or nonfiction camp, share many of the same themes and tropes. A...
Towards a Radical Cosmopolitanism
In the 1991 film Mississippi Masala by Mira Nair (aka Zohran’s mom), an Indian family is forced to flee Uganda, where an ethnonationalist uprising has pronounced the country “fully African”— by which they mean, ethnically Ugandan, by which...
Towards an Antifascist Reading of the Present (Pt 2)
For part 1 (mostly paywalled), click this link!
Interestingly, the Oxford English Dictionary describes Discourse as inherently tied to reason and rationality (and its first usage appears to be Chaucer’s translation of Boethius...
A List of Good Things Pt XXIV
It always seems to be precisely when things feel overwhelming, when the to-do list becomes astronomical, when there is no time to take a rest or breather, that life catches up with you, and you are befallen by some (hopefully minor) tragedy...
Towards an Antifascist Reading of the Present (Pt 1)
My keynote for the UCLA interdisciplinary conference on Discourse
Breaking this up in a few different Substack posts! Paywall for sensitive material below.
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Socialist, Antifascist, Artist, Film Professor. Author-illustrator of Soviet Daughter (Microcosm, 2017) and author of Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary of the 1960s (UC Press, 2025)
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