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.

Arena Magazine issue no. 150, 2017

Title	Author	PagePg.
EDITORIAL
MARRIAGE AND OUR TECHNO-FUTURE?	Alison Caddick	2
LEAD GRAPHIC
	Michael Leunig	4
COMMENTARY
LEARNING FROM LAS VEGAS Autonomous mass killers-terrorism from within?	John Hinkson	5
THE SENSIBLE CENTRE Our politicians' loyalty is to the market, not democracy	Colin Long	6
PRESENCE LOST IN A WORLD OF AUTOMATA What will day-to-day life feel like if AI triumphs?	Dirk den Hartog	8
VISUAL ESSAY
OPEN CUT: LIFE ON AN AUSTRALIAN FRONTIER? An exhibition by Jacky Green, Therese Ritchie and Seán Kerins	Seán Kerins	26
FEATURES
MODERN SLAVERY IN REMOTE AUSTRALIA? The government's welfare reforms for Indigenous Australians look like slavery	Jon Altman	12
THE BOLSHEVIK CENTURY The October revolution in the twentieth-century political imagination	Guy Rundle	16
KOREA: THE FORGOTTEN WAR CONTINUES The Korean War in popular consciousness and as experience	Liz Reed	31
ESSAY
BROOKES JETTY How local history scripts activism	Bill Garner	35
ARTS AND CULTURE
REVELATIONS: FROM ALICE SPRINGS TO SICILY The significance of place for Arrernte and Sicilians	Rod Moss	40
REGULARS
EVERYBODY KNOWS Denialism's emotional logic	Mark Furlong	11
REVIEWS
AUSTRALIANS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA A photographic exhibition at the Monash Gallery of Art	Helen Gardner	46
RUBBISH THEORY Michael Thompson's reissued masterwork of anthropology	David Boarder Giles	49
RESIZING PSYCHOLOGY Mark Furlong's Re-Sizing Psychology in Public Policy and the Private Imagination	Grazyna Zajdow	50
PAPERLESS PILGRIMS Óscar Martínez's The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail	Jarrod Hedel	53
POETRY
FLOWERING SARAJEVO	Robyn Rowland	45
WHEN THE FIRST KNIGHT	Peter Murphy	48
FRIDAY NIGHT IN THE SUPERMARKET		50
LOST RIVERS		52
CARTOON
	Matt Bissett-Johnson
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
	Chris Black

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Arena Magazine 150

EDITORIAL: MARRIAGE AND OUR TECHNO-FUTURE?

Arena Magazine issue no. 150, 2017

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