Arena Magazine 146

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EDITORIAL: TRUMP: THE POINT OF NO RETURN

In this excerpt from the forthcoming editorial of Arena Magazine, Simon Cooper argues that if a genuine alternative to Trump is to appear, liberals and progressives must recognise where their oppositional values come from, and the limits of the settings that produced them. Such settings, premised on global trade and hyper-consumption, are unsustainable for life itself, not merely politically divisive.

Arena Magazine issue no. 146, 2017

Title	Author	PagePg.
EDITORIAL
TRUMP: THE POINT OF NO RETURN	Simon Cooper	2
LEAD GRAPHIC
	Damien Shen	4
COMMENTARY
WE ARE ALL TROLLS NOW Inauguration Day and the crisis of political speech	David Boarder Giles	5
TRUMP CHAOS TO OUR NORTH? Where do we stand at the end of US hegemony in Asia?	Richard Tanter	7
TRUMP AND DISRUPTION The capitalist ideology of disruption	Robert Geroux	9
COMMENT
18C: WHOSE FREE SPEECH?	Adrianne Walters, Simon Cooper, Shelley Bielefeld, Doug Lorman, John Hinkson	13
IMMIGRATION	Markus Heinrich	17
CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES ON TREATY	Glenn Loughrey, Brooke Prentis	18
FEATURES
CENTRELINK'S DATA-MATCHING FIASCO A very predictable disaster	Gerard McPhee	20
DARK JUSTICE Orwellian justice in the era of the Australian Border Force	Dean Biron	23
POPULISM The wildness of democracy and emergence of the corporate state	Bruce Kapferer	31
A SORDID TRADE WAR Australia's place at the intersection of empires	Humphrey McQueen	35
THIS IS NOT A TRUCK Misapprehending terror, recognising resistance	Micaela Sahhar	39
ESSAY
BEOWULF FOR TODAY A hero of unquestionable stature...	Robert DiNapoli	45
VISUAL ESSAY
ON THE FABRIC OF THE NGARRINDJERI BODY: VOLUME II	Damien Shen	26
POSTCARD
THEY SHOOT ELEPHANTS, DON'T THEY?	Melody Kemp	43
REVIEWS
IMAGING IDENTITY Portraiture in the digital age	Neil Maizels	50
SOVEREIGNTY An exhibition by southeastern Indigenous artists	Sabra Thorner	52
POETRY
DAY OF LOST THINGS	John Gosslee	12
NIGHT OF LOST THINGS	John Gosslee	12
DANGER	Noel King	41
FRAGMENTS FOR LEILA	John Falzon	42
CARTOON
	Matt Bissett-Johnson
DRAWING
	James Alexander Martin
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
	Chris Black

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Arena Magazine 146

EDITORIAL: TRUMP: THE POINT OF NO RETURN

Arena Magazine issue no. 146, 2017

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