Arena Magazine issue no. 163, 2019
Contents
| Title | Author | PagePg. |
|---|---|---|
| EDITORIAL | ||
| Alison Caddick | 2 | |
| LEAD GRAPHIC | ||
| Chips Mackinolty | 4 | |
| COMMENTARY | ||
THE UNIVERSITY EATS ITS OWN Gerd Schröder-Turk and academic freedom | Simon Cooper | 5 |
TURKEY IN SYRIA The Kurds, the Russians, and democracy in Turkey | Christopher Houston | 7 |
IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST? The Morrison government’s foreign policy | Allan Behm | 9 |
Reassessing Australia’s emissions profile | Kaj Löfgren | 11 |
THE HYBRID HOME Smart devices and surveillance in everyday life | Ziying Meng | 13 |
| FEATURES | ||
The death of Kumanjayi Walker—the Northern Territory as police state | Melinda Hinkson and Thalia Anthony | 16 |
INDIGENOUS LIVES MATTER The broken NT legal system, ‘disremembering’, and the Indigenous struggle | John B. Lawrence | 22 |
WHITE HOUSE VS DEEP STATE Trump, Clinton and the US national-security establishment | Scott Burchill | 25 |
The turbulent state of the Middle East | Amin Saikal | 29 |
DATA-DRIVEN DEMOCRACY A parallel to the Cambridge Analytica scandal | Timothy Erik Ström | 32 |
| ALAN ROBERTS PRIZE ESSAYS | ||
RESISTING THE CLIMATE LEVIATHAN Emergency climate politics and the state of exception | Angie Sassano | 36 |
‘BETTER A ROBOT THAN A REAL CHILD’ The spurious logics used to justify child sex dolls | Caitlin Roper | 40 |
| COMMON TOUCH | ||
READ MY ‘I’ | Mark Furlong | 15 |
| THIRTY YEARS ON… | ||
AN AUSTRALIAN NARRATIVE Arena Magazine’s Australia: the past thirty years | Guy Rundle | 44 |
| ARENA ESSAY | ||
SOCIAL AGENCY AND THE ANTHROPOCENE High-tech science as bearer of the Anthropocene | John Hinkson | 48 |
| REVIEWS | ||
PRIVILEGED IMAGES Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir | Valerie Krips | 54 |
REDUCTION TO MEME Aaron Bastani’s Fully Automated Luxury Communism | Guy Rundle | 55 |
TIME AND MEMORY Rachel Buchanan’s Ko Taranaki Te Maunga | Kirsty Gover | 57 |
ARE WE ALL KEYNESIANS (AGAIN) NOW? Geoff Mann’s In the Long Run We Are All Dead | Sam Quigley | 58 |
FINDING A WAY FORWARD Geoff Robinson’s Being Left Wing in Australia | Elizabeth Humphrys | 60 |
GESTATION FOR ALL GENDERS? Sophie Lewis’s Full Surrogacy Now | Alison Caddick | 61 |
| POETRY | ||
THE PROPER TRUTH | Barry Hill | 31 |
OPPOSITIONAL STANCE | John Zedolik | 39 |
AT THE GRAVE OF ANTONIO MACHADO | BN Oakman | 52 |
FINISTERRE | 53 | |
SCREWTAPE REDUX: A DEVIL’S VAUNT | Robert DiNapoli | 59 |
| CARTOONS | ||
| Matt Bissett-Johnson | ||
| CRYPTIC CROSSWORD | ||
| Chris Black | ||