The new system of death that is rapidly being assembled is an expression of what one might call the master process of human ‘civilisation’ at its most concrete and abstract levels: a tendency to take for granted the given frameworks of social life while abstracting from what it has meant to be human.
This are not a ‘greatest hits’ collection of the current series, but a showcase of the writings of our editorial team, with a particular focus on pieces that develop aspects of the Arena thesis, in various ways.
Cold War to Hot Planet is a book length collection of essays that serves as an excellent introduction to Arena, its history, theory and the breadth of this publications' critical and radical praxis.
Nonie Sharp (1931-2024) was a founder and editor of Arena. Here are a collection of edited speeches, given on the day of the funeral, to commemorate her life and legacy.
This special section is offered as one starting-point among many for debates that need to be, and are, taking place across a continent which has become a place of struggle, driven by and driving questions of what it means to be peoples in the flow of history, violence and transformation.
