Arena Magazine 151

EDITORIAL: KEEPING US SAFE?

The fetishisation of safety points to a larger transformation across Western democracies.

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Arena Magazine issue no. 151, 2017

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
EDITORIAL
Simon Cooper2
LEAD GRAPHIC
INGENUITY AND COOPERATION ON MANUS ISLAND
4
STATEMENT
STATEMENT FROM MANUS ISLAND
On peaceful resistance
Behrouz Boochani5
COMMENTARY
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS, THE CHRISTMAS JIGSAW
Progressive political victories have given a broken system new legitimacy, as social power shifts
Guy Rundle6
MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN AND THE ART OF WAR
The Saudi coup, and manoeuvres across the Middle East
Kylie Moore-Gilbert8
Technology, debt and control in China's Social Credit System
Timothy Erik Ström11
'AUSTRALIA'S SHAME' CONFIRMED
Problems in the NT legal system compounded the suffering of Don Dale's Aboriginal detainees
John B. Lawrence14
VISUAL ESSAY
CENTRING TO STILLPOINT
The beauty of ceramic vessels and the delight of their creation
Petrus Spronk26
FEATURES
TRUMPED IN THE LOOKING-GLASS
On the accelerating anticipation of disaster that attaches to the Trump presidency
John Cash17
THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS AND THE RIGHTS OF PROPERTY
How property rights are embedded in Australian political history
Eran Asoulin22
THE CUCKOO IN THE NEST
Thoughts on neoliberalism, revaluations of capital and the emergence of the corporate state, part 1
Bruce Kapferer and Marina Gold31
HICCUPS AT THE END OF HISTORY
The internal collapse of liberal democracy
Thomas Battersby35
ARTS AND CULTURE
HISTORY AND MYTH
La Mama and the Pram Factory
Bill Garner41
POSTCARD
THE SUMMER OF LOVE, HALF A CENTURY LATER
Nostalgia in California, or lessons to be learned?
Stephen Pascoe44
REVIEWS
A REMEDY AGAINST FORGETTING
Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk
Valerie Krips48
ART AND REVOLUTION
Brunswick Street, by Ann Rittman and Maz Wilson
Grazyna Zajdow50
BEGUILED BY DETECTORISTS
Metal detecting and Life
Neil Maizels53
POETRY
MORE SKILLS FOR LIVING
Paul Mitchell10
THE TINY ROOM
John Gosslee25
IT'S WHAT I NEED TO SAY
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GILLYFLOWER
Kevin Hart47
CARTOON
Matt Bissett-Johnson
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Chris Black

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