Archive: Arena Quarterly

Assange in Extremis: The Atlantic powers are determined on extradition

Arena Quarterly no.11

Binoy Kampmark

Sep 2022

Should Assange find himself shackled in the less than salubrious surrounds of the US carceral system, he will face one of the country’s most vicious statutes. The Espionage Act of 1917, also known as 18 USC 793, has worried the US legal profession for decades.

Melbourne’s Aesthetic Turn: Coffee Culture, Industrial Chic and Global-city Elites

Arena Quarterly no.10

Stephen Pascoe

Jun 2022

In this process of the re-aesthetisation of the refuse of industrial society there was an emptying out of the history of the inner city. What mattered was the appearance of grit, the chic of industrial production, not the social realities of it for those who were by now long departed from these places.

Born for Leaving: Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast

Arena Quarterly no.10

Valerie Krips

Jun 2022

Unionist paramilitaries who want to ‘cleanse’ the area of Catholics erect barriers at the end of the street. Buddy asks his father whose side they’re on.

The Problem with ‘Lived Experience’: Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, Ideology

Arena Quarterly no.10

David Ferraro

Jun 2022

Arguments from experience The ideas of psychoanalysis and its founder, Sigmund Freud, have long been assimilated into both popular culture and academic discourse. This assimilation has been so comprehensive that in the Anglophone world—though not necessarily elsewhere—these ideas have been relegated to the status of historical relics, discredited museum pieces that have been replaced by […]

Gaslit Futures: How Gas Giant Woodside Gets What It Wants

Arena Quarterly no.10

David Ritter

Jun 2022

At a time when the International Energy Agency (IEA) has called for a total moratorium on opening any new coal, oil or gas projects to avoid climate disaster, Woodside is hell-bent on locking in increasing greenhouse gas emissions for decades to come.

Experiencing the Floods: Counting the Costs, Preparing for a Hostile Climate

Arena Quarterly no.10

Hilary Bambrick

Jun 2022

We must get better at communicating risk so that communities have the best chance to prepare for the coming onslaughts—to make good decisions and take the best actions they can, whether in fires or floods, heatwaves or severe storms.

Hard-Wired for Corruption: Arms Trading and Australia’s Lax Monitoring Regimes

Arena Quarterly no.10

Michelle Fahy

Jun 2022

There is little dispute among long-term arms industry researchers that it is the most corrupt industry on the planet.

Labor Legacies: What can we expect from an Albanese government?

Arena Quarterly no.10

Frank Bongiorno

Jun 2022

Intergenerational theft is now so embedded in Australia’s policy architecture that young people will need a lot of cultivation.

Collateral Warfare: The US proxy war in Ukraine

Arena Quarterly no.10

Alison Broinowski

Jun 2022

Putting themselves above international law, the American and Russian leaders have made Ukrainians into ants, trampled as the elephants fight.

Fast Drums, Slow Genocide: West Papuan group Sorong Samarai at WOMAD

Arena Quarterly no.10

Charlie Hill-Smith

Jun 2022

In Papua they say that ‘all men are birds’, meaning that everybody sings and is close to nature…

Quarterly Editorial #10: The Election and the Glue that Binds

Arena Quarterly no.10

Alison Caddick

Jun 2022

But nothing in the Labor Party vision speaks to the meaning of the combined crises that reach across personal life, economy, culture and environment, not to mention international borders. Each is a silo for policy.

‘Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality’: Putin’s Remaking of Imperial Russia

Arena Quarterly no.10

Roger D Markwick

Jun 2022

Russia is better viewed as a ‘subaltern Empire in a Eurocentric world’.