Arena Magazine issue no. 161, 2019
Contents
| Title | Author | PagePg. |
|---|---|---|
| EDITORIAL | ||
| John Hinkson | 2 | |
| LEAD GRAPHIC | ||
| Chips Mackinolty | 4 | |
| COMMENTARY | ||
WHO’S AFRAID OF JEREMY CORBYN? The UK Labour Party and accusations of anti-Semitism | Emma Fajgenbaum | 5 |
Cultural supremacism or shared ordinariness? | Christopher Houston | 7 |
PRIVATISING ASYLUM From community volunteer action to neoliberal refugee settlement | John Brinnand | 9 |
GEOENGINEERING We need technologies of humility, not of hubris | Jeremy Baskin | 11 |
THE THIRD DEGREE Mobilising for future climate scenarios | Alia Armistead | 14 |
| REPLY | ||
WHEN IS OUR DAY? A reply to Barry Morris on the Frontier Wars commemoration | Humphrey McQueen | 17 |
| VISUAL ESSAY | ||
THE FALLEN | Therese Ritchie | 26 |
| FEATURES | ||
On the uberisation of everything | H. C. Gildfind | 19 |
PROFITING FROM DISASTER The Australian scramble for Bougainville’s mineral wealth | Kristian Lasslett | 24 |
The stock critiques made by Ramsay and friends show how little it knows about the humanities | Nick Riemer | 31 |
The fortune of a salesman and the fate of the Palestinians | Ihab Shalbak | 35 |
| ARENA ESSAY | ||
THE ANNIHILATING CORE Facing extinction: will we consent to our own negation? | Guy Rundle | 38 |
| ARTS AND CULTURE | ||
THE FOREMOST DONATION OF ALL Tibetan protest and cultural regeneration | Tim Robertson | 43 |
| REVIEWS | ||
THE TROUBLE WITH HYPER-MOBILITY Exploring the complexities of Suketu Mehta’s This Land Is Our Land | Melinda Hinkson | 48 |
PARTICIPATING IN THE POLITY Judith Brett’s From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage | Bernard Keane | 49 |
SOLIPSISM IN SPACE David Greig’s stage adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris | Owen Richardson | 51 |
THE ARTIST UNDER TOTALITARIANISM Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Never Look Away | Grazyna Zajdow | 52 |
TRIGGER WARNINGS: AN EXCHANGE Guy Rundle’s review of Jeff Sparrow’s Trigger Warnings: a discussion | Jeff Sparrow and Guy Rundle | 53 |
| POETRY | ||
WHAT BECOMES OF THE QUEEN’S HATS | Peter Murphy | 22 |
PEOPLES PERMANENTLY AT WAR | 54 | |
SEVEN DEAD EMUS | Donna Mazza | 46 |
SORRY BUSINESS FOR JANGALA | K. A. Nelson | 47 |
BALLISTICS | Robert DiNapoli | 50 |
| CARTOONS | ||
| Matt Bissett-Johnson | ||
| CRYPTIC CROSSWORD | ||
| Chris Black | ||