Arena Magazine 138

EDITORIAL: GENEROSITY AND BARBARISM WITHIN THE EMPIRE OF AFFECT

Displaced compassion in the refugee crisis

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Arena Magazine issue no. 138, 2015

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
EDITORIAL
Simon Cooper2
LEAD GRAPHIC
Thao Le4
AGAINST THE CURRENT
UNCONDITIONAL BASIC INCOME
A welfare system for a warming twenty-first century?
Greg Marston5
THE ROAD TO PARIS
On the lead-up to the Paris climate talks
Philippa Rowland8
YOU TOOK THEM ALIVE, WE WANT THEM BACK ALIVE!
The forced disappearance of forty-three Mexican students
Marisol Reyes Soto10
$100,000 DEGREES AHEAD
University deregulation still Turnbull's agenda
Jeannie Rea13
FEATURES
SYRIAN FANTASIES
A short history of incomprehensible wars
Gerry Simpson17
WAR ON THE NIQAB
'Our' sexism versus 'their' sexism?
Gavin Lewis20
What Australia can learn from the Mapuche in Chile
Sophie Gulliver23
VACCINE HESITANCY
Holistic and conventional medicine must collaborate to find a solution
Andy Blunden28
HUMAN CARGO
How instrumental rationality dictates the treatment of asylum seekers
Joshua Lourensz32
ESSAY
TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSIONS
Powerful edifices built on hope
Kirsty Sangster36
ARTS AND CULTURE
LOVING THE UNLOVABLE
Simone Weil today
Justin Clemens43
REGULARS
THE COMMON TOUCH: OVERACTING
Mark Furlong15
POSTCARD: A WARY EMBRACE
From China to Japan by ship
Roland Boer48
REVIEWS
EXTINCTIONS AND THE ANTHROPOCENE
'The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History', by Elizabeth Kolbert
John Hinkson51
LET'S BE MORE LIKE GHOSTS
On 'Interstellar' and the generations
Alana Lopez53
POETRY
WE LAUGHED
Edith Speers7
ODE FOR AN ANNIVERSARY
Judith Brooks41
1914-2014
Judith Brooks41
THE LASY DAY
41
WILFRED OWEN
41
4 NOVEMBER 1918
41
ARIBURNU SAVASI, TURKEY,
42
25 APRIL 1915
42
CARTOONS
Matt Bissett-Johnson
IILUSTRATION
Thao Le

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