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.

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Arena Magazine issue no. 156, 2018

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
Editorial
Alison Caddick2
Lead Graphic
Matt Bissett-Johnson4
Commentary
FINANCIAL FICTIONS
The social form behind the GFC
John Hinkson5
The student as consumer and monitoring academic staff
Grazyna Zajdow7
BRUTAL REALITIES
Is Uganda slipping away from America's kingpin Yoweri Museveni?
Ray Mwareya9
AGRICULTURAL ADDICTIONS
The herbicide to GM merry-go-round undermining our food
Maarten Stapper11
COMMENT
AUTOMATING SOCIAL WORK
Turning people into a data field
Jack Davenport14
VISUAL ESSAY
DEBRIS OF THE BORDER
Seeing, and seeing with, objects discarded by migrants
Karina Horsti, in collaboration with Adal Neguse26
Features
INTO THE INDO-PACIFIC
French colonialism and regional slavery
Nic Maclellan15
Gifting our grandchildren a living hell
Ian Bayly19
PREJUDICE AND PRIDE
The legacy of Orientalism in the work of Bernard Lewis
Ihab Shalbak23
THE DEAD HAND OF THE PAST
The Armenian genocide and the Kurdish question
John Tully31
ABSTRACT AND CONTROL: TWENTY YEARS OF GOOGLE
The third in a series of articles
Timothy Erik Ström35
Essay
THE EVIL BENEATH THE CARAPACE
War crimes—learning from the Holocaust
Kirsty Sangster40
ARTS AND CULTURE
ART AGAINST GENTRIFICATION
Painting Sydney’s industrial past: Jane Bennett’s urban landscapes
Edwin Montoya Zorrilla44
REVIEWS
ANGLETON AND US EXCEPTIONALISM
The Ghost, Jefferson Morley’s definitive assessment of James Jesus Angleton
Phillip Frazer49
THE UGLY INTERNET
Yasha Levine’s Surveillance Valley, on the internet’s military-industrial roots
Timothy Erik Ström50
WHO KILLED JUANITA NIELSEN?
Zanny Begg’s experimental video work The Beehive
Natalie Thomas52
THINKING ABOUT CLASSICAL MUSIC
Janine Hosking’s The Eulogy, a documentary about pianist Geoffrey Tozer
Simon Cooper53
Poetry
BERGER’S GLOVE; BORGES’ GRAVE
Mitchell Welch10
CAN’T COPE WITH HOPE
Edith Speers13
THE BEECHWORTH MENTAL HOSPITAL
Peter Murphy43
A DETECTIVE CALLS
SLIPS OF THE TONGUE
AGENCY
Robert DiNapoli53
NEW YEAR'S DAY
54
Cartoon
Matt Bissett-Johnson
Cryptic Crossword
Chris Black

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