Archive: Arena Quarterly #26

Living with the Violence of the Past

I am in a tangle of emotions, I am contemplating my own complicity.

Pre-Fascist Space-Time, Forever on the Move

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.

On Hilarity

Our vexed times could do with a bit more of hilarity, as noble and salubrious a friend as humankind has ever known, and a bit of a hoyden into the bargain.

Deepening Symbolic Recognition

The book negotiates a complex task in addressing two audiences at once: non-Aboriginal Australians seeking to understand urban Aboriginal experience in the context of Treaty, and a younger generation of Aboriginal Melburnians who, as Andrews puts it, ‘are searching’ for their community’s history, and ‘are hungry for it’.

Pauline Conversions? Australian Politics after Farrer

The spectacle of One Nation’s sudden success seems to have stunned many into an almost ritualistic recitative of cod-sociological explanations for right-wing movements.

The Usefulness of Cinema in Times of War

Can film for our present circumstances recreate the conditions of perception so that the ordinary is made strange?

Tertiary Rackets: Deakin.bot v Einstein.ai—the sad finale of this model of higher education?

Has the thru-put model has combined with AI to deliver the final blow to the Australian university? And how did we get here?

On Living in an Accelerating World

Rosa is an intriguing writer who makes you think. He is a critical theorist in the best sense of that tradition.

The Cost of Hesitation

Abortion bans are reshaping medicine, with fatal consequences for women

Planning, Managing and Enjoying Your Own Affordable Housing

Housing cooperatives are an organisational form constituted to own, govern and/or manage physical housing stock, where members of the cooperative live in and manage the housing cooperative together.

Prefiguring Postcapitalist Work

Practising cooperation in today’s world is a revolutionary act in itself, helping to raise consciousness and confidence, while experimenting with new forms of ownership and control.

Cooperatives on the Ground

The social and solidarity economy names forms of enterprise where use, participation, reciprocity and stewardship matter more than external return.