Arena Magazine issue no. 143, 2016
Contents
| Title | Author | PagePg. |
|---|---|---|
| EDITORIAL | ||
| John Hinkson | 2 | |
| LEAD GRAPHIC | ||
| Matt Bissett-Johnson | 4 | |
| COMMENTARY | ||
A 'WEIMAR MOMENT' IN THE WEST? The hollowed-out shell of America's liberal democracy | Robert Geroux | 5 |
LESSONS FROM CHILCOT Understanding the Iraq invasion and reforming Australia's war powers | Paul Barratt | 6 |
PENALISING ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES Work for the Dole and income support in remote communities | Lisa Fowkes | 8 |
Placing his programs in the 'radical centre' is a misnomer | Chris Sarra | 11 |
SETTLER RECOGNITION? The shifting role of 'symbolism' in the Indigenous reconciliation debate | Dan Tout | 12 |
EXIT EUROPE, STAGE RIGHT Brexit signals a world in local and global turmoil | Paul James | 14 |
| DIGITAL LIFE | ||
DIGITAL BEING Digital rights are human rights | Aral Balkan | 18 |
CYBER-FETISHISM When technology becomes a kind of social orthopedics | César Rendueles | 20 |
| FEATURES | ||
Russia, NATO and US power | Roger Markwick | 22 |
Climate crisis, conservation, and Australia's environment movement | Peter Christoff | 31 |
ECO-MODERNISM? The myth of decoupling economic growth from environmental impacts | Ted Trainer | 36 |
240-PLUS YEARS A SLAVE Exploring slavery's repressed historical continuities and its popular representation | Gavin Lewis | 39 |
| ESSAY | ||
TRUMP AS SINGULARITY The American election will not take place | Roland Kapferer | 44 |
| ARTS AND CULTURE | ||
THE MORE THAT IS TAKEN AWAY The mass grave as spectacle and memorial | Ben Altman | 26 |
| REGULARS | ||
COMMON TOUCH: DRUMMING UP A POST-HUMAN BEAT Market-wise humanity | Mark Furlong | 17 |
COOPER'S LAST: AFTER CHILCOT: WAR AND VIOLENCE The forgetting of history | Simon Cooper | 54 |
| REVIEWS | ||
BEGINNING AT THE END Jeremy Sims' Last Cab to Darwin | Neil Maizels | 49 |
HOUSE, HOME AND SOCIETY Framing a sociology of housing | Eleanor Chapman | 51 |
| POETRY | ||
VAPOUR TRAILS | Paul Collis | 10 |
HOPSCOTCH | Kevin Roberts | 43 |
| CARTOON | ||
| Matt Bissett-Johnson | ||
| CRYPTIC CROSSWORD | ||
| Chris Black | ||