Arena Magazine no. 161

EDITORIAL: A WAR FOOTING?

The global security emergency and its economic eruptions

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Arena Magazine issue no. 161, 2019

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
EDITORIAL
John Hinkson2
LEAD GRAPHIC
Chips Mackinolty4
COMMENTARY
WHO’S AFRAID OF JEREMY CORBYN?
The UK Labour Party and accusations of anti-Semitism
Emma Fajgenbaum5
Cultural supremacism or shared ordinariness?
Christopher Houston7
PRIVATISING ASYLUM
From community volunteer action to neoliberal refugee settlement
John Brinnand9
GEOENGINEERING
We need technologies of humility, not of hubris
Jeremy Baskin11
THE THIRD DEGREE
Mobilising for future climate scenarios
Alia Armistead14
REPLY
WHEN IS OUR DAY?
A reply to Barry Morris on the Frontier Wars commemoration
Humphrey McQueen17
VISUAL ESSAY
THE FALLEN
Therese Ritchie26
FEATURES
On the uberisation of everything
H. C. Gildfind19
PROFITING FROM DISASTER
The Australian scramble for Bougainville’s mineral wealth
Kristian Lasslett24
The stock critiques made by Ramsay and friends show how little it knows about the humanities
Nick Riemer31
The fortune of a salesman and the fate of the Palestinians
Ihab Shalbak35
ARENA ESSAY
THE ANNIHILATING CORE
Facing extinction: will we consent to our own negation?
Guy Rundle38
ARTS AND CULTURE
THE FOREMOST DONATION OF ALL
Tibetan protest and cultural regeneration
Tim Robertson43
REVIEWS
THE TROUBLE WITH HYPER-MOBILITY
Exploring the complexities of Suketu Mehta’s This Land Is Our Land
Melinda Hinkson48
PARTICIPATING IN THE POLITY
Judith Brett’s From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage
Bernard Keane49
SOLIPSISM IN SPACE
David Greig’s stage adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris
Owen Richardson51
THE ARTIST UNDER TOTALITARIANISM
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Never Look Away
Grazyna Zajdow52
TRIGGER WARNINGS: AN EXCHANGE
Guy Rundle’s review of Jeff Sparrow’s Trigger Warnings: a discussion
Jeff Sparrow and Guy Rundle53
POETRY
WHAT BECOMES OF THE QUEEN’S HATS
Peter Murphy22
PEOPLES PERMANENTLY AT WAR
54
SEVEN DEAD EMUS
Donna Mazza46
SORRY BUSINESS FOR JANGALA
K. A. Nelson47
BALLISTICS
Robert DiNapoli50
CARTOONS
Matt Bissett-Johnson
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Chris Black

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