Articles by: Mitchell Welch

Author Biography:

Mitchell Welch is a writer and communications advisor from Queensland. His work has appeared in a range of journals and anthologies, and his debut poetry collection Vehicular Man was recently published as part of the Rabbit Poets Series.

Pre-Fascist Space-Time, Forever on the Move

Arena Quarterly no.26

Mitchell Welch

Jun 2026

America is presently Making Itself Great Again. Nicolás Maduro is rotting in a Brooklyn prison cell. The Ayatollah is dead... the world has found itself in a very Pynchonian moment.

From Here to Exurbia: Exciting new ways to be alienated in the fringeworlds beyond the city

Arena Quarterly no. 20

Mitchell Welch

Dec 2024

The wide-open streets and incomplete environs of real exurbia provide a much fresher, more open and realistic setting for the story of our prevailing alienation from the means of human communion.

The Aukward Situation

Arena Quarterly no. 15

Mitchell Welch

Sep 2023

Excuse the strain, we’ve been roundly Amerified. Our tastes, waistlines, the secular statehood of our core antagonisms; all have given up the canestalk for lashings of fructified corn.

I’ve Seen This Before: On Noah Baumbach’s film of Don DeLillo’s White Noise

Arena Quarterly no. 13

Mitchell Welch

Mar 2023

The recurrence of this interface between the individual and resonances of the uncanny in late capitalist reproduction in DeLillo’s work is something that Baumbach obviously ‘gets’.
"The great assembly cables itself into the kind of knot that moves a dumb planchette…

Berger’s glove; Borges’ grave

Arena Magazine no. 156

Mitchell Welch

Oct 2018

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The great assembly cables itself into the kind of knot that moves a dumb planchette across its Ouija board...
"The gods confound the taxpayer who just found out money's already measured space and clock…

Flamingo Maze Pachinko, The Wasp and the Orchid

Arena Magazine no. 152

Mitchell Welch

Feb 2018

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The gods confound the taxpayer who just found out money's already measured space and clock time and tied off the new wave mental perimeter fence with the umbilical knot of its existence