Arena Magazine 150

EDITORIAL: MARRIAGE AND OUR TECHNO-FUTURE?

The choices, in terms of argument and justification for political positions and action in this field, aren’t definitive; even the differences among proponents are more varied than many might see.

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Arena Magazine issue no. 150, 2017

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
EDITORIAL
Alison Caddick2
LEAD GRAPHIC
Michael Leunig4
COMMENTARY
LEARNING FROM LAS VEGAS
Autonomous mass killers-terrorism from within?
John Hinkson5
THE SENSIBLE CENTRE
Our politicians' loyalty is to the market, not democracy
Colin Long6
PRESENCE LOST IN A WORLD OF AUTOMATA
What will day-to-day life feel like if AI triumphs?
Dirk den Hartog8
VISUAL ESSAY
OPEN CUT: LIFE ON AN AUSTRALIAN FRONTIER?
An exhibition by Jacky Green, Therese Ritchie and Seán Kerins
Seán Kerins26
FEATURES
The government's welfare reforms for Indigenous Australians look like slavery
Jon Altman12
THE BOLSHEVIK CENTURY
The October revolution in the twentieth-century political imagination
Guy Rundle16
KOREA: THE FORGOTTEN WAR CONTINUES
The Korean War in popular consciousness and as experience
Liz Reed31
ESSAY
BROOKES JETTY
How local history scripts activism
Bill Garner35
ARTS AND CULTURE
REVELATIONS: FROM ALICE SPRINGS TO SICILY
The significance of place for Arrernte and Sicilians
Rod Moss40
REGULARS
EVERYBODY KNOWS
Denialism's emotional logic
Mark Furlong11
REVIEWS
AUSTRALIANS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA
A photographic exhibition at the Monash Gallery of Art
Helen Gardner46
RUBBISH THEORY
Michael Thompson's reissued masterwork of anthropology
David Boarder Giles49
RESIZING PSYCHOLOGY
Mark Furlong's Re-Sizing Psychology in Public Policy and the Private Imagination
Grazyna Zajdow50
PAPERLESS PILGRIMS
Óscar Martínez's The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
Jarrod Hedel53
POETRY
FLOWERING SARAJEVO
Robyn Rowland45
WHEN THE FIRST KNIGHT
Peter Murphy48
FRIDAY NIGHT IN THE SUPERMARKET
50
LOST RIVERS
52
CARTOON
Matt Bissett-Johnson
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Chris Black

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