Arena Magazine issue no. 156, 2018
Contents
Title | Author | PagePg. |
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Editorial | ||
Alison Caddick | 2 | |
Lead Graphic | ||
Matt Bissett-Johnson | 4 | |
Commentary | ||
FINANCIAL FICTIONS The social form behind the GFC | John Hinkson | 5 |
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 |
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 |