Arena Quarterly issue no. 9, 2022
Contents
Title | Author | PagePg. |
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Editorial | ||
The ‘Promise of Australia’ and why progressives can’t inspire | Guy Rundle | 1 |
Features | ||
Climate and life after 3 degrees | Hilary Bambrick | 5 |
Permaculture, low tech and the ‘Freedom Movement’ | Terry Leahy | 9 |
Behind the media myth of neoliberal Blairite social ‘achievements’ | Gavin Lewis | 15 |
World | ||
Australia’s role in the 1973 coup and the return to reform in Santiago | Rodrigo Acuña | 22 |
Resisting the wars our Anglo-allies are fomenting and how to institute peace | Alison Broinowski | 28 |
COVID and the long, cold winter of the American homeless | Georgina Ramsay | 35 |
The pandemic emergency as claim and narrative structure | Janet Roitman | 44 |
Person | ||
Mental health by algorithm is reshaping care and sociality | Mark Furlong | 51 |
Visual Essay | ||
In Search of Appropriate Images With an essay by Linda Zhengová | Mattia Balsamini | 59 |
Theory and Practice | ||
On Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s reissued Intellectual and Manual Labour and science as constitutive force | John Hinkson | 65 |
Essay | ||
Brisbane’s bush stone curlews in the shadow of extinction | Dean Biron | 72 |
Essay | ||
Copying, imitation, but not reproduction | John Kinsella | 76 |
Poetry | ||
Night Letters | Kevin Hart | 84 |
A Kindness | 85 | |
Reviews | ||
See How We Roll Melinda Hinkson’s See How We Roll: Enduring Exile between Desert and Urban Australia | Richard Davis | 86 |
Prepared for the Common Good The Nordic Edge: Policy Possibilities for Australia, edited by Andrew Scott and Rod Campbell | Rhonda Small | 89 |
John Lyons’ Dateline Jerusalem: Journalism’s Toughest Assignment | Ned Curthoys | 93 |
Forsaking East Timor Peter Job’s A Narrative of Denial: Australia and the Indonesian Violation of East Timor | Binoy Kampmark | 98 |