Arena Magazine no. 155

Editorial: Alt-Right Dreaming

One of the vastly different aspects of anything that can be considered cultural politics today is its expression as identity politics, and as pointed out by others, the alt-Right itself fits this description.

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Arena Magazine issue no. 155, 2018

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
Editorial
Alison Caddick2
Lead Graphic
Barry Dickins4
Commentary
THE END OF NEOLIBERALISM?
The cultural-political ground has shifted
Guy Rundle5
WHEN BANKING EATS ITS CUSTOMERS
The Hayne royal commission
Gerard Brody7
The Enemy Within
Trump, NATO and the Russia narrative
Nicolas Hausdorf10
Vice Media
A cultural politics of transgression
Paddy Gordon12
Postcard
PAKISTAN TO KASHGAR TO TIBET
Experiencing China’s imperialism up close
Mark Furlong15
Visual Essay
The Poor Cartoons
Barry Dickins28
Features
The Water Paradigm and a new way forward
Ariel Salleh18
Australian mercenaries and the shifting sands of Australia–Middle East alliances
Richard Tanter21
On the proper scope and use of the military
Paul Barratt25
Arts and Culture
PREOCCUPIED WITH THE CIRCUITRY OF THE SPECIES
The highly original art of polymath Edwin Tanner
Sarah Bailey46
THE UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATION
On the ruins of Western civilisation
Bruce Buchan33
BEING THERE
What you miss out on when face-to-face teaching disappears
Dirk den Hartog38
A SUPPLEMENT TO AMBROSE BIERCE'S A DEVIL'S DICTIONARY
Robert DiNapoli41
THE ROCK STAR AT THE UNIVERSITY
Disruption—will the academic of the future no longer need to read and write?
Giles Simon Fielke42
WHAT IS EDUCATION?
When ‘education’ is the crisis yet more of it is the answer, aren’t we missing something?
A. J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens45
Reviews
WHEN THE FACTS CHANGE
Robert Manne’s On Borrowed Time
Richard King54
THE TEMPER OF THE TIME
Ray Argall’s Midnight Oil: 1984
Grazyna Zajdow55
A MAN OF ONLY RELATIVE AUTONOMY
Judith Brett’s The Enigmatic Mr Deakin
Geoff Robinson56
LABOR'S GREEN CREDENTIALS
Moss Cass and the Greening of the Australian Labor Party, by Cass, Encel and O'Donnell
Geoff Robinson57
Poetry
MANILA
Sian Vate17
I'M IN THE LABOR PARTY
20
'DIM LANDS OF PEACE'
David Mason53
CHANT OF THE EUMENIDES
Cartoons
Matt Bissett-Johnson
Cryptic Crossword
Chris Black

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