Arena Magazine issue no. 150, 2017
Contents
Title | Author | PagePg. |
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EDITORIAL | ||
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 | ||
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 |