Pandemonium

The spring 2021 issue explores the social and political fragmentation wrought by COVID, and by the realities of contemporary life: neoliberal governance, the techno-sciences, a disconnection from nature, and rampant commercialisation and commodification.

Editorial: The Biopolitics of COVID

The pandemic very likely is the result of development pressing into once wild places and disturbing achieved balances between nature and human settlement, development that has been fuelling worldwide consumption and a disconnection from nature at an ever-accelerating pace.

Arena Quarterly issue no. 7, 2021

Title	Author	PagePg.
Editorial
The Biopolitics of COVID	Alison Caddick	1
Nation/Empire
The Light on the Hillsong Neither party, nor the system, can answer the categorical challenges of our era	Guy Rundle	4
Paying for the Pandemic Will expanding government debt only entrench the wealth divide?	John Quiggin	7
The Rules-Based Order Empire by another name	Clinton Fernandes	12
The Bloody Trade Australia’s Yemen War and the supply of arms to rogue regimes	Michelle Fahy	22
Australia’s Unfinished Timor Business Australian encouragement to the strongman and decades of denial	Peter Job	28
Theory and Practice
Identity Crisis Radical gender theory and the Left	Richard King	36
Science/Culture
Should We ‘Follow the Science’? A philosophical counter to science’s claim to culture-transcending knowledge	Christopher Houston	43
Googling Earth Our abstract ways of viewing	Madeline Frolich	52
Alan Roberts Prize
What if Ivan Illich Were Elected Mayor? A ‘miraculous epilogue’ to the industrial city	Samuel Alexander and Brendan Gleeson	57
Place and Community
Our Local Funeral Parlour When development threatened a marker of place and community	Rachel Coghlan	63
Review Essay
Decolonisation or Redemption? The one-state solution: Unsilencing Gaza, by Sara Roy, and Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine, by Jeff Halper	Christopher Wise	75
Reviews
Dark Emu’s Critics Farmers or Hunter-Gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate, by Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe	Richard Davis	80
Withdrawing and Unmaking The Unconstructable Earth, by Frédéric Neyrat	Melinda Hinkson	84
Why Crime Is Declining	Grazyna Zajdow	88
Among the Shades Where the Water Ends, by Zoe Hollman	Robert DiNapoli	91

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Pandemonium

Editorial: The Biopolitics of COVID

Arena Quarterly issue no. 7, 2021

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