Arena Quarterly #24

Dec 2025

The current period is one in which the power and reality of the pre-1960s social structures have all but disappeared. Total state and self-surveillance have become a substitute for culturalised, internalised moral governance. The hope for ‘security’ and ground has been replaced by a demand for the guarantee of ‘safety’.

Inimitable, Endlessly Imitated: Zionism, Anti-Semitism, October 7

Arena Quarterly no. 24

Mira Adler-Gillies

Dec 2025

he performance of victimhood is like a bit of detritus, a floating remnant of the past, receding into the foam...

Life in plastic: dollmania, male dominion, nature

Arena Quarterly no. 24

aurora linnea

Dec 2025

Dollification has spread from the fetishisation of women, to the enthusiastic affirmation of the trans movement. Yet at its root it is the abolition of the human and natural, women first.

Labour’s Identities

Arena Quarterly no. 24

Owen Bennett

Dec 2025

Byrne appears to go out of his way to underplay, if not ignore completely, the complex history of radical- reformist tensions within the history of the union movement.

Global China, Global Crisis?

Arena Quarterly no. 24

Dylan Healey

Dec 2025

China’s economy is either a triumph or a disaster for mainstream pundits. A material analysis suggests that its success has led to ‘premature deindustrialisation’, with global consequences

In the Burning Days

Arena Quarterly no. 24

Kirsty Howey

Dec 2025

Military occupation, unlimited extraction, and climate crisis are making Australia’s North unlivable, a sacrifice zone to war and profit

Paradise by the Dashboard Model?

Arena Quarterly no. 24

Richard King

Dec 2025

Data modelling as a tool of environmental campaigning has created dataworld, in which nature’s full reality is lost, even to those committed to its salvation.

New Sunrise Over West Papua?

Arena Quarterly no. 24

Susan Connelly

Dec 2025

It is clear that refusals to recognise minority rights loom large in the Australia-Indonesia relationship. Australia’s treatment of such minorities has an element of ‘scapegoating’ to it—blaming smaller groups for threats to dominant relationships.

The Metro to Üsküdar

Arena Quarterly no. 24

Christopher Houston

Dec 2025

A hardware lane on Istanbul’s Asian side is a witness to thirty years of Erdogan’s rule, now coming to an end, as class, tradition and religion shift.