Arena Magazine 146

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.

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Arena Magazine issue no. 146, 2017

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
EDITORIAL
Simon Cooper2
LEAD GRAPHIC
Damien Shen4
COMMENTARY
WE ARE ALL TROLLS NOW
Inauguration Day and the crisis of political speech
David Boarder Giles5
TRUMP CHAOS TO OUR NORTH?
Where do we stand at the end of US hegemony in Asia?
Richard Tanter7
The capitalist ideology of disruption
Robert Geroux9
COMMENT
18C: WHOSE FREE SPEECH?
Adrianne Walters, Simon Cooper, Shelley Bielefeld, Doug Lorman, John Hinkson13
IMMIGRATION
Markus Heinrich17
CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES ON TREATY
Glenn Loughrey, Brooke Prentis18
FEATURES
A very predictable disaster
Gerard McPhee20
DARK JUSTICE
Orwellian justice in the era of the Australian Border Force
Dean Biron23
The wildness of democracy and emergence of the corporate state
Bruce Kapferer31
A SORDID TRADE WAR
Australia's place at the intersection of empires
Humphrey McQueen35
THIS IS NOT A TRUCK
Misapprehending terror, recognising resistance
Micaela Sahhar39
ESSAY
BEOWULF FOR TODAY
A hero of unquestionable stature...
Robert DiNapoli45
VISUAL ESSAY
ON THE FABRIC OF THE NGARRINDJERI BODY: VOLUME II
Damien Shen26
POSTCARD
THEY SHOOT ELEPHANTS, DON'T THEY?
Melody Kemp43
REVIEWS
IMAGING IDENTITY
Portraiture in the digital age
Neil Maizels50
SOVEREIGNTY
An exhibition by southeastern Indigenous artists
Sabra Thorner52
POETRY
DAY OF LOST THINGS
John Gosslee12
NIGHT OF LOST THINGS
John Gosslee12
DANGER
Noel King41
FRAGMENTS FOR LEILA
John Falzon42
CARTOON
Matt Bissett-Johnson
DRAWING
James Alexander Martin
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Chris Black

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