Archive: Arena Quarterly #20

Holden to the Plan

Arena Quarterly no. 20

Guy Rundle

Dec 2024

The road to renewal for working-class politics lies through a radical questioning of what ‘class’ and ‘work’ now are.

Doubt thou the stars are fire: Isabella Hammad

Arena Quarterly no. 20

Vanessa Francesca

Dec 2024

Hammad’s novels are successful because they are a way of knowing again what we already know: all stories about peace and conflict are family stories, and every love story is a ghost story, and every ghost story is a heavenly haunting against a starless night.

Germany’s Friend-fiend floodtide

Arena Quarterly no. 20

Ben Gook

Dec 2024

In German politicking, the blame for the austerity the constitution demands and the visible effects of neglect have found their target not in fiscal rules, but in the apparent largesse of migrant support.

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.

Phon(ey)ics Wars

Arena Quarterly no. 20

Lucinda McKnight, Carly Sawatzki

Dec 2024

Phonics has become a political fetish. New assaults on teaching practice detach reading from meaning, to serve and further toxic ideologies

Can the NDIS survive its own success??

Arena Quarterly no. 20

Julia Cretan

Dec 2024

Whatever happened to the support revolution?? Was it betrayed, or Did the institutional design undermine its founding goals?? And can it survive amid changing ideas of what disability is?

Into the Heat: Extreme fire events and contestation over the future of forests

Arena Quarterly no. 20

Cam Walker

Dec 2024

The next twelve months will be critical for forested landscapes as First Nations custodians, regional communities, forest campaigners and scientists all contribute to a vision of how to interact with our forest landscapes.

The Fat Fightback

Arena Quarterly no. 20

David Coady

Dec 2024

Review: Kate Manne: Unshrinking: How to Fight Fatphobia, London: Allan Lane, 2024. New York-based Australian philosopher Kate Manne became famous several years ago with Down Girl, an account of misogyny that employed the techniques of analytic philosophy to great effect. In her latest book she applies these techniques to the issue of fatphobia. Her argument […]

The Fragile Weight of Many Worlds

Arena Quarterly no. 20

John Hinkson

Dec 2024

Australia's attitude towards migration must be rethought—not as an abstract framework or policy, but as a question of cultural existence.

Editorial: Technology’s Ends, Humanity’s End?

Arena Quarterly no. 20

Arena Publications Editors

Dec 2024

Gaza is in some ways a relatively early version of a semi-automated military techno-hell that may soon become the condition of the planet.

Maxim Gorky to Musk: Misinformation in the Digital Age

Arena Quarterly no. 20

Lizzie O'Shea

Dec 2024

Australia's over-simplified solution to the problem of mis- and disinformation reflects the contradictions of new and old forms of media alike.

Letter from London: Gaza in the Courtroom

Arena Quarterly no. 20

Gerry Simpson

Dec 2024

International law has risen in prominence as a framework for justice amidst violence. Does it address the moral imperatives of war or merely normalise its tragic consequences?