The New Danger Zones

Editorial: Battening Down the Hatches

Despite all our problems—all our terrible forebodings—it seems we remain wedded, yet, to a form of life that is, simply, unsustainable, and to a form of human organisation that is ethically bankrupt.

Arena Quarterly issue no. 8, 2021

Title	Author	PagePg.
Editorial
Battening Down the Hatches	Alison Caddick	1
Climate
The Limits of COP2 From the ecological moment to uninterrupted systems management	Guy Rundle	3
Fracked Futures Funding climate collapse in the Northern Territory	Kirsty Howey	7
Subdue and Rule the Earth Scott Morrison’s climate politics and theology of natural exploitation	Paul Tyson	12
COVID
Relational Medicine COVID, colonialism and fighting the memes of conspiracy in the Northern Territory	Lisa Stefanoff	17
When the General Calls Medicine and military tactics against COVID-19 in Australia	Warwick Anderson	22
Who Are You? As we emerge from this strange COVID season, can we know what makes us human?	Robert DiNapoli	27
AUKUS
Australia’s Nuclear Future? There’s nothing normal or safe about nuclearisation	John Hinkson	32
Forever Partnership, Forever War AUKUS has ensured that Australia’s future will be tied to US warmongering	Alison Broinowski	41
What Are the Submarines Really For? AUKUS and the Australian Way of War	Clinton Fernandes	49
WORLD
Merkel Melancholia Moving on from Merkelism?	Ben Gook	55
Revolution in Myanmar Fighting sovereign commandment in the name of popular will	Nick Cheesman	60
CULTURE
Cultural Appropriation and the Politics of the Imagination Identity and the affective regimes of information and cultural consumption	Simon Cooper	71
STORY
Time Travel Through Unfinished Business	Kathleen Mary Fallon	79
POLITICAL MEMOIR
From the US Maelstrom to Political Economy Another personal story from the 1960s	Evan Jones	84
REVIEWS
You Should Give a Fck About Your Food Why You Should Give a Fck about Farming, by Gabrielle Chan	Stefano Di Pieri	89
Mind the Gap Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis: Steps Towards a Metacosmics, by Daniel Ross	Richard King	92
How Should We Protest? Peace Crimes: Pine Gap, National Security and Dissent, by Kieran Finnane	Gerry Simpson	94
POETRY
The Magi’s Visitation	Robert DiNapoli	54
Obviously Blast; Intimations; Vedic Shit Shows, One More Time; Sleep Out; From River Deeps, Dragons Sing Out; Nothing Coming Off	Barry Hill	66

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The New Danger Zones

Editorial: Battening Down the Hatches

Arena Quarterly issue no. 8, 2021

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