Arena Magazine no. 163

EDITORIAL: NEW ARENA RISING…

A new Arena for dangerous times: responding to world events and cultural trajectories—participating in the emerging debates

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Arena Magazine issue no. 163, 2019

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
EDITORIAL
Alison Caddick2
LEAD GRAPHIC
Chips Mackinolty4
COMMENTARY
THE UNIVERSITY EATS ITS OWN
Gerd Schröder-Turk and academic freedom
Simon Cooper5
TURKEY IN SYRIA
The Kurds, the Russians, and democracy in Turkey
Christopher Houston7
IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST?
The Morrison government’s foreign policy
Allan Behm9
Reassessing Australia’s emissions profile
Kaj Löfgren11
THE HYBRID HOME
Smart devices and surveillance in everyday life
Ziying Meng13
FEATURES
The death of Kumanjayi Walker—the Northern Territory as police state
Melinda Hinkson and Thalia Anthony16
INDIGENOUS LIVES MATTER
The broken NT legal system, ‘disremembering’, and the Indigenous struggle
John B. Lawrence22
WHITE HOUSE VS DEEP STATE
Trump, Clinton and the US national-security establishment
Scott Burchill25
The turbulent state of the Middle East
Amin Saikal29
DATA-DRIVEN DEMOCRACY
A parallel to the Cambridge Analytica scandal
Timothy Erik Ström32
ALAN ROBERTS PRIZE ESSAYS
RESISTING THE CLIMATE LEVIATHAN
Emergency climate politics and the state of exception
Angie Sassano36
‘BETTER A ROBOT THAN A REAL CHILD’
The spurious logics used to justify child sex dolls
Caitlin Roper40
COMMON TOUCH
READ MY ‘I’
Mark Furlong15
THIRTY YEARS ON…
AN AUSTRALIAN NARRATIVE
Arena Magazine’s Australia: the past thirty years
Guy Rundle44
ARENA ESSAY
SOCIAL AGENCY AND THE ANTHROPOCENE
High-tech science as bearer of the Anthropocene
John Hinkson48
REVIEWS
PRIVILEGED IMAGES
Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir
Valerie Krips54
REDUCTION TO MEME
Aaron Bastani’s Fully Automated Luxury Communism
Guy Rundle55
TIME AND MEMORY
Rachel Buchanan’s Ko Taranaki Te Maunga
Kirsty Gover57
ARE WE ALL KEYNESIANS (AGAIN) NOW?
Geoff Mann’s In the Long Run We Are All Dead
Sam Quigley58
FINDING A WAY FORWARD
Geoff Robinson’s Being Left Wing in Australia
Elizabeth Humphrys60
GESTATION FOR ALL GENDERS?
Sophie Lewis’s Full Surrogacy Now
Alison Caddick61
POETRY
THE PROPER TRUTH
Barry Hill31
OPPOSITIONAL STANCE
John Zedolik39
AT THE GRAVE OF ANTONIO MACHADO
BN Oakman52
FINISTERRE
53
SCREWTAPE REDUX: A DEVIL’S VAUNT
Robert DiNapoli59
CARTOONS
Matt Bissett-Johnson
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Chris Black

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