This is 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 in various ways develop aspects of the Arena thesis.
- Simon Cooper, Last Chance for Universities?, Arena Quarterly no. 2 Jul 2020
- John Hinkson, ‘Intellectuals and Social Being’, Arena Quarterly, no. 9, 2022.
- Richard King, ‘Zero Gravity: Floating towards Posthumanism’, Arena Quarterly, no.11, 2022.
- Julie Stephens, ‘Sex Up Against Culture’, Arena Quarterly, no. 14, 2023.
- Guy Rundle, ‘The Ungrounded Self’, Arena Quarterly, no. 16, 2023.
- Alison Caddick, ‘Gaza and the Unspeakable’, Arena Quarterly, no. 16, 2023.
- Timothy Erik Ström, ‘Los Alamos to Neuralink’, Arena Quarterly, no. 17, 2024.
- Paul James, ‘What Does the “Social” Mean Today’, Arena Quarterly, no. 19, 2024.
- Dan Tout, ‘Settler colonialism in the twenty-first century’, Arena Quarterly, no.21, 2025.
In counter-chronological order …
Settler colonialism in the twenty-first century
Dan Tout, Mar 2025
Settler colonial theory, and the ‘logic of elimination’ provides the best framework for a new politics after the referendum debacle. But only as a fully critical approach to history and activism.
What Does the ‘Social’ Mean Today?
Sep 2024
Understanding what it means to be social, and how this has been reconstituted by markets, technology and academic theory is central to any future politics.
Los Alamos to Neuralink
Timothy Erik Ström, Mar 2024
Albert Einstein issued a dire warning: that we were living under threat not only from the atomic bomb and the spectre of extermination in nuclear war, but also from a second weapon, one he considered just at dangerous for humanity and the planet—‘the Information Bomb’.
Editorial: Gaza and the Unspeakable
Alison Caddick, Dec 2023
If this disarticulation of founding story and psychological investment doesn’t occur, what hope is there for Palestinians? But what hope for Israeli Jews too?
The Ungrounded Self: Are we witnessing a breakdown in the transmission of culture and subjectivity?
Guy Rundle, Dec 2023
This current process is happening much faster than any other transformation, and so the transformation of subjectivity can be observed in real time.
Sex Up Against Culture
Julie Stephens, Jun 2023
The simple and seemingly commonsensical conversation around consent makes it difficult to turn a critical eye to the concept.
Zero Gravity: Floating towards posthumanism
Richard King, Sep 2022
The transition to the posthuman will not turn on any Judgment Day scenario, but will be a slow and incremental process of quantity turning into quality.
Intellectuals and Social Being
John Hinkson, Mar 2022
Marx makes many references to how ideas are related to a social basis, but Sohn-Rethel regards it of great significance that science escapes this focus. Elaborating no social basis for scientific ideas allows them to stand alone as essentials to be simply taken for granted, their source and social formation unquestioned.
Last Chance for Universities?
Simon Cooper, Jul 2020
How bad will it be? Up until the COVID-19 pandemic, international-student revenue for Australian universities had been around 25 per cent across the sector, with many of Australia’s ‘sandstone’ universities relying on international students for at least a third of their income. The loss of much of this revenue for the near to mid-future represents the biggest crisis the sector has faced. …universities will act vigorously to manage their finances.