Security, Terror, Panic

Journal 47-48 cover

EDITORIAL: Confronting a New Leviathan

This issue of Arena Journal, as many before it have been, is concerned with both specific and more general processes of transformation and crisis. While, considered together, the contents of this issue paint a bleak picture about the contemporary situation and future prospects, they also point towards more hopeful, if provisional and conditional futures.

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Arena Journal issue no. 47/48, 2017

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
EDITORIAL
Confronting a New Leviathan
Dan Tout1
SECURITY, TERROR, PANIC
Terrible Security
Bifocal Visions of Horror
Bruce Buchan10
Trump and the Fascist Prospect
John Hinkson33
A Spoiling Operation
Cold War at the University of Melbourne
Nonie Sharp57
The Scare Cycle
Moral Panics and National Elections
Ben Debney76
Joining the 'Race to the Bottom'
The Rudd Government's 'Tough but Humane' Approach to Asylum Seekers
Katrina Stats98
WikiLeaks, Pedagogy and the Ethical Limits of Research
Binoy Kampmark124
TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS: ONTOLOGY AND ABSTRACTION
Abstraction and Production in Google Maps
The Reorganisation of Subjectivity, Materiality and Labour
Timothy Erik Ström143
Ontological Design as an Ecological Practice
Abby Mellick Lopes172
Occupy This
The Political Economy of the Makerspaces
Clare Shamier192
Maker Culture and Possibilities for Attached Consumption
Susie Elliott and Mark Richardson213
Food, and the Unsettling of the Human Condition
Paul James and Nick Rose232
THE INTELLECTUAL AND PRACTICAL STRUGGLE FOR PALESTINE
'All Lives Matter' or 'Palestinian Lives Matter'?
Yes, Please!
Zahi Zalloua251
Deconstruction, Zionism and the BDS Movement
Christopher Wise272
REVIEW ESSAY: SOCRATES AND CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Socrates Reborn?
Philosophy, after the Disciplines
Matthew Sharpe304
Notes on Contributors
324

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