Arena Magazine 136

EDITORIAL: HYSTERICAL FREEDOM

Free speech today is not ‘free’ but a commodity. Our interaction with ‘ubiquitous’ media via screen technologies is a key driver of contemporary capitalism.

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Arena Magazine issue no. 136, 2015

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
EDITORIAL
Simon Cooper2
LEAD GRAPHIC
Michael Leunig4
AGAINST THE CURRENT
UNION JACKED
The Tories' election strategy may have tested the UK to destruction
Guy Rundle5
JIHADI JAKE
The product of a toxic Right and impotent Left
Tim Robertson7
FEAR AND THE WORKING CLASS
The far Right and the destruction of meaningful work
Colin Long9
WHY WEEKENDS
In defence of penalty rates
Meave Noonan11
COMMENT
THE WAITING ROOM
Media coverage of the Bali Nine executions
John Brinnand13
FEATURES
A CEMETERY IN TURKEY
Gallipoli and the horror of industrialised warfare
Matthew Sharpe15
MIDNIGHT IN VENEZUELA
Contradictory possibilities and lessons we might learn in the shadow of Chávez
Fregmonto Stokes19
TERRORISING THE SELF
Selfie culture at the intersection of the corporate and surveillance state
Henry A. Giroux24
THE CONTESTED MODERNISATION OF JAKARTA
High-rises and consumerism push aside the kampungs
Zacharias Szumer28
EMPOWERED INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
Empowering who exactly?
Elise Klein33
ARTS AND CULTURE
IN SEARCH OF THE BUDDHA
On Barry Hill's 'Peacemongers'
Gerry Simpson36
ESSAY
How we might understand the motivations and self-sacrifice of 'foreign fighters'
Andy Blunden41
REGULARS
THE COMMON TOUCH: IN CONVERSATION
Mark Furlong14
POSTCARD: IN PURSUIT OF BIGFOOT
Roland Boer39
REVIEWS
THE EYES HAVE IT
The Photograph and Australia
Melinda Hinkson47
PERFECT CHARITY
Women religious living the spirit of Vatican II
Wendy Poussard50
TRESPASSING ON HOME SOIL
Karen Jennings' 'Away from the Dead'
Alice Robinson52
THE HARROW OF TIME
Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Buried Giant'
Robert DiNapoli54
POETRY
IT'S TIME
Angela Smith8
THE HUMMINGBIRD
James Milenkovic6
THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
Kevin Hart46
THE FUTURE
Kevin Hart3
CARTOONS
Matt Bissett-Johnson

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