Arena Quarterly issue no. 13, 2023
Contents
Title | Author | PagePg. |
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Editorial | ||
Melinda Hinkson & Jon Altman | 1 | |
Global Social War | ||
The Netanyahu government's attack on Israel's Supreme Court | Marcelo Svirsky | 5 |
The status of democracy in the lead-up to Joe Biden’s summit | Alison Broinowski | 10 |
Left movements and deforestation in South America | Freg J. Stokes | 15 |
Special Section: Nuclear Worlds | ||
Nuclear technologies threaten all life, so why do we persist? | John Hinkson | 24 |
How a grassroots movement stopped nuclear in Australia | Dave Sweeney | 31 |
From tragedy to farce, the claims of a nuclear renaissance | Darrin Durant | 38 |
Will it happen here? An emerging shift internationally reveals a technocratic logic | Guy Rundle | 46 |
State and Equality | ||
How to read a popular meme signifying inclusion | Scott Robinson | 50 |
The state as arena of struggle and lasting transformation | John Falzon | 56 |
Essays | ||
Exploring texts on faith and practice in a technocapitalist world | Ian Barns | 64 |
The Psychic Costs of Climate Collapse Looking for Eros in the long hard rain of climate collapse | Mark Furlong | 71 |
Genesis B, Paradise Lost and the dark politics of resentment | Robert DiNapoli | 78 |
Arts and Culture | ||
On Noah Baumbach's film of Don DeLillo's White Noise | Mitchell Welch | 84 |
Reviews | ||
Sub-Imperial Power, by Clinton Fernandes | Richard King | 91 |
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation, by Sophie Lewis | Emma Fajgenbaum | 94 |
So Far, So Good: On Connection, Loss, Laughter and the Torres Strait, by Aaron Fa’Aoso, with Michelle Scott Ticker | Kathleen Mary Fallon | 97 |
Poetry | ||
granite / banksias / labour | Kristy Sangester | 61 |
The Secret History / To the Tune of ‘Swing that Thing’ / To the Tune of ‘Didn’t It Rain, Children?’ | Kevin Hart | 89 |
Love is a Weird Cat / Lawnmower Man / Serpentine Mornings | Damian Balassone | 100 |