Articles by: Guy Rundle

Author Biography:

Guy Rundle was founding co-editor of Arena Magazine and is Associate Editor of Arena (third series). He is a well-known essayist and is writer-at-large for Crikey. His most recent book Practice: Journalism, Essays and Criticism was published by Black Inc. in 2019.

The Regression and the Valkyries

Arena Online

Guy Rundle

28 Sep 2023

Three years after COVID gave the world a first reminder as to just how many, and how blithe, assumptions our current global arrangements were based on, the eruption of an old-fashioned land war appears almost unseemly in a high-tech era.

The Great White Fleet Returns: AUKUS, culture, ‘mega-race’ and the new world blocs

Arena Quarterly no.14

Guy Rundle

Jun 2023

The Left appears to have very little to say about AUKUS, even though it amounts to the most comprehensive imposition of hegemonic whiteness currently on offer.

Outside In: AUKUS and the contradictions of sovereignty

Arena Online

Guy Rundle

2 Jun 2023

The dilemma for Australian First Nations people is that they are getting a foothold on sovereign claims within the nation, at the same time as the sovereignty that was to be divided is being given away as a whole package.

The Fox News verdict, and how publics are becoming audiences everywhere

Arena Online

Guy Rundle

20 Apr 2023

Fox’s brilliant kinetic style, tabloid and cartoonish, made popular an essentially mythical approach to news—concrete stories, heroes and villains, and long-running sagas, many of them involving elite leaders, the Obamas and the Clintons above all.

Greens Parties Go Nuclear: Will it happen here? An emerging shift internationally reveals a technocratic logic

Guy Rundle

6 Apr 2023

The political Green movement, founded in Tasmania then Germany, is now a half-century old, and is changing with the deeper social and cultural changes that are occurring underneath it.

I Sing the Body of Work Electric: ChatGPT, AI, writing, technology and humanity

Arena Online

Guy Rundle

26 Jan 2023

With such developments unrestrained, we will become more like the imitations of ourselves than computers will become like us.

Will Politics Re-Organise Around the Question of Technology?

Arena Online

Guy Rundle

16 Dec 2022

By the 1980s, the deep critique of technology, growth and the culture and psychology arising from it had been exhausted—beaten by the impasse of the historical moment.

The Technoking and the Town Square: Musk, Twitter and radical individualism

Arena Online

Guy Rundle

18 Nov 2022

Many of its frequent users have spoken recently of the tragedy of Twitter being destroyed 'as a community', it is clearly nothing like a community in any real sense. Indeed it substitutes for real community in its absence.

Our new new times: Labor’s alternative to capital is capital

Arena Online

Guy Rundle

9 Sep 2022

Talking up the country's natural heritage as the base for a 'green wall street' is the exuberance of the converted. It has deep roots in the inadequacy of Labor's socialist traditions

World Heat

Arena Online

Guy Rundle

28 Jul 2022

The problems they face from this extended economy are so far beyond the state mechanisms still at their command, their business as usual, that their fate may well be to utterly discredit ‘reasonable politics’

The election and the teals: the new social liberalism in a knowledge society

Arena Online

Guy Rundle

2 Jun 2022

This is not only a new development in Australia, but in the anglosphere Westminster system, and it should not be underestimated or misunderstood.

A Light Shining in the Shire

Arena Quarterly no. 9

Guy Rundle

Mar 2022

The last decade has seen the failure of the centrist form of neoliberal progressivism that occupied the left parties in the face of an onslaught by right-wing populism, which mobilised forces old and new to present themselves…as a response on behalf of the people against the entire ‘political/media’ class, as represented by those in power.