Archive: Arena Quarterly #16

Where does Value Lie?

Arena Quarterly no. 16

Alison Caddick

Dec 2023

As Marx unfolded the ‘hidden abode’ of the capitalist market to reveal the true nature of capitalist accumulation, so Fraser moves behind that abode to find another.

More Light Shining in Oxbridge

Arena Quarterly no. 16

Robert DiNapoli

Dec 2023

Eagleton’s brisk summaries of their legacies afford a window into a time of sudden and tumultuous change both in modern Western culture at large and within the cloistered environs of academic literary criticism.

Australia and East Timor: the continuing denial

Arena Quarterly no. 16

Peter Job

Dec 2023

Throughout the occupation, the Australian government worked as chief propagandist for the Suharto regime in the international arena on the Timor issue.

Time is Ignorance

Arena Quarterly no. 16

Valerie Krips

Dec 2023

We are in thickets of folktale and myth even before the characters in Joe’s comics come to life and Joe, following a cuckoo’s call, encounters the deep past as he moves through known topography made as strange as time itself.

Smashing, grabbing, falling: Trauma and the core self in youth offending in Mpwartne/Alice Springs

Arena Quarterly no. 16

Pamela Nathan

Dec 2023

The truth is that these youth have endured assaults and violations to their internal worlds also. It can be argued that they have lived with a form of ‘soul murder’.

The captivating whiteness of the humanities in Australia

Arena Quarterly no. 16

Warwick Anderson

Dec 2023

The parameters of the ‘human’ in the humanities at the University of Melbourne were clearly defined and restricted in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Ungrounded Self: Are we witnessing a breakdown in the transmission of culture and subjectivity?

Arena Quarterly no. 16

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.

Identity in Question: The contemporary self as philosophical by-product

Arena Quarterly no. 16

Mark Kelly

Dec 2023

The paradox of the discourse of diversity is that it is a universal credo of anti-universalism: it demands we all acknowledge the significance of particular experience, that we can discern in advance based on who is speaking the value of their words.

The Waxing and Waning of Family Therapy: From the collectivism of 70s therapy to neoliberal individualism today

Arena Quarterly no. 16

Mark Furlong

Dec 2023

Set in a fine hotel in legacy southern Italy, the July 2023 conference had a title that said come-over-here-and-take-a-look-at-this!: ‘Family Therapy—The Road that Connects Individual and Social Resources. This was linked to the Assisi Manifesto, a statement prominently set out in the pre-conference publicity and conference program. The credo began: ‘Family therapy champions the family […]

Atop Corbera D’Ebre: Memorialising the Spanish Civil War

Arena Quarterly no. 16

Grazyna Zajdow

Dec 2023

What memorials and resistance to them illustrate is that neither historical memory nor historical amnesia is ever complete. Shadows of events always exist, and what is a show of power, as in the case of Poble Vell, in one period may in another be a vivid reminder of resistance.

The Dragon Takes a Slow Dance: China’s new development model, global shifts, and how the pundits get it wrong

Arena Quarterly no. 16

Clinton Fernandes

Dec 2023

Common prosperity means the political leadership ‘calling the tune that corporations dance to, rather than the other way around’.

After the Inferno: Mental health, children and families in the wake of the pandemic

Arena Quarterly no. 16

David Ferraro

Dec 2023

The crippling anxiety, depression, attentional and other difficulties of the populace constitute real limits, of the sort that arise when something is lacking symbolically.