Arena Magazine no. 156

Editorial: RELIGIOUS VALUE

On both sides of this politics there is an often rabid concern with boundaries and differences—think Manus Island and Border Force, but also no-platforming and trigger warnings.

Arena Magazine issue no. 156, 2018

Title	Author	PagePg.
Editorial
RELIGIOUS VALUE	Alison Caddick	2
Lead Graphic
	Matt Bissett-Johnson	4
Commentary
FINANCIAL FICTIONS The social form behind the GFC	John Hinkson	5
TEACHING TO THE SET The student as consumer and monitoring academic staff	Grazyna Zajdow	7
BRUTAL REALITIES Is Uganda slipping away from America's kingpin Yoweri Museveni?	Ray Mwareya	9
AGRICULTURAL ADDICTIONS The herbicide to GM merry-go-round undermining our food	Maarten Stapper	11
COMMENT
AUTOMATING SOCIAL WORK Turning people into a data field	Jack Davenport	14
VISUAL ESSAY
DEBRIS OF THE BORDER Seeing, and seeing with, objects discarded by migrants	Karina Horsti, in collaboration with Adal Neguse	26
Features
INTO THE INDO-PACIFIC French colonialism and regional slavery	Nic Maclellan	15
OUR CLIMATE-CHANGE APATHY Gifting our grandchildren a living hell	Ian Bayly	19
PREJUDICE AND PRIDE The legacy of Orientalism in the work of Bernard Lewis	Ihab Shalbak	23
THE DEAD HAND OF THE PAST The Armenian genocide and the Kurdish question	John Tully	31
ABSTRACT AND CONTROL: TWENTY YEARS OF GOOGLE The third in a series of articles	Timothy Erik Ström	35
Essay
THE EVIL BENEATH THE CARAPACE War crimes—learning from the Holocaust	Kirsty Sangster	40
ARTS AND CULTURE
ART AGAINST GENTRIFICATION Painting Sydney’s industrial past: Jane Bennett’s urban landscapes	Edwin Montoya Zorrilla	44
REVIEWS
ANGLETON AND US EXCEPTIONALISM The Ghost, Jefferson Morley’s definitive assessment of James Jesus Angleton	Phillip Frazer	49
THE UGLY INTERNET Yasha Levine’s Surveillance Valley, on the internet’s military-industrial roots	Timothy Erik Ström	50
WHO KILLED JUANITA NIELSEN? Zanny Begg’s experimental video work The Beehive	Natalie Thomas	52
THINKING ABOUT CLASSICAL MUSIC Janine Hosking’s The Eulogy, a documentary about pianist Geoffrey Tozer	Simon Cooper	53
Poetry
BERGER’S GLOVE; BORGES’ GRAVE	Mitchell Welch	10
CAN’T COPE WITH HOPE	Edith Speers	13
THE BEECHWORTH MENTAL HOSPITAL	Peter Murphy	43
A DETECTIVE CALLS
SLIPS OF THE TONGUE
AGENCY	Robert DiNapoli	53
NEW YEAR'S DAY		54
Cartoon
	Matt Bissett-Johnson
Cryptic Crossword
	Chris Black

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Arena Magazine no. 156

Editorial: RELIGIOUS VALUE

Arena Magazine issue no. 156, 2018

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