Arena Quarterly no. 3

After the Deluge: essays on defence, democracy, COVID, capitalism, the arts, resilience, and the Murray-Darling

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Arena Quarterly issue no. 3, 2020

Title	Author	PagePg.
Editorial
Defence After the Rise of China	John Hinkson	2
World
War Within, Rot Without The collapse of Australian party politics	Guy Rundle	4
Pandemic Capitalism The Great Depression to come?	Joe Collins	12
Fuelling 'The China Threat' Perception and hypocrisy as we rush to supplicate the other superpower	Scott Burchill	18
No Space for Memory? Monuments, memorials and residues of war in Sri Lanka's north	Lia Kent	26
Inland
Whatever It Takes The politics of Indigenous vulnerability and extracted futures in northern Australia	Lisa Stefanoff	32
'Not the Hilton' 'Vernacular violence' in COVID-19 quarantine and detention hotels	Claire Loughnan	39
This Is Water Life on the Darling-Baaka	Dan Schulz	47
Essay
There's No Time Left Not to Do Everything Cultivating new democratic systems based on ecology itself	Tim Hollo	53
Arena Essay
Against Resilience How did the capacity for bouncing back from adversity turn into a technocratic burden?	Paul James	62
Considerations
Stop Press Farewell to Arena Printing	Guy Rundle, Melinda Hinkson and Simon Cooper	70
Arts and Culture
Après moi, le déluge: Artists After Art The political abandonment of the arts may be positive for artists	Justin Clemens	78
Review Essay
Make or Mar Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light	Valerie Krips	90
To Let Things Live Anthropology, images and the breach of distance	Melinda Hinkson	95
Poetry
To the Tune of ‘On the Road Somewhere’	Kevin Hart	86
To the Tune of ‘Fahet uns die Füchse’		87
Trench Art	John Falzon	88
All I think about is Jacqueline		88
The duende came		89
Trench Art		89

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Arena Quarterly no. 3

Arena Quarterly issue no. 3, 2020

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