Tag: capitalism

Global Capitalist Crisis: Deadlier than Coronavirus (Part I)

Arena Online

William I. Robinson

14 Apr 2020

Financial speculation, pillaging the state, and debt-driven growth were ‘fixes’ that could not address the underlying structural conditions that triggered the 2008 financial collapse.

Editorial: Undead Undone? Coronavirus and Capitalism

Arena Online

Timothy Erik Ström

7 Apr 2020

The coronavirus pandemic lays bare how the living, the dead and the grey zone in between are organised into a global system of power, ecology and technology; a formation whose vulnerabilities and contradictions are being pressed to boiling point.
"What will happen when it is fully revealed in the operation of the corporate state…

That Liability, Democracy, by Alison Caddick

Arena Magazine no. 147

Alison Caddick

Apr 2017

What will happen when it is fully revealed in the operation of the corporate state that the needs of the people are not its concern?
"Trump's message is to make America great again. The means to do this, according to…

Trump: Logician to Rhetorician, by Jon Altman

Jon Altman

9 Feb 2017

Trump's message is to make America great again. The means to do this, according to him, is to revisit the twentieth-century industrial capitalism that made America ‘great’ before. It is the legacy of this American Dream of bloated materialism and waste that is now choking the planet.
"Arena Magazine changes its masthead

New Realities, New Politics, by Alison Caddick

Arena Magazine no. 144

Alison Caddick

Oct 2016

Arena Magazine changes its masthead
"DIY culture in a time of hyper-detachment

The Maker Movement, by Susie Elliott and Mark Richardson

Arena Magazine no. 142

Mark Richardson, Susie Elliott

Jun 2016

DIY culture in a time of hyper-detachment
"Trump’s success lies in the politics of the personal.

Donald Trump’s Conservatism, by Geoffrey Robinson

Arena Magazine no. 141

Geoffrey Robinson

Apr 2016

Trump’s success lies in the politics of the personal.
"If the money relation sits at the heart of capitalism, how does its present, twenty-first-century…

Global Avarice, by Alison Caddick

Arena Magazine no. 141

Alison Caddick

Apr 2016

If the money relation sits at the heart of capitalism, how does its present, twenty-first-century form, digitised and ultra-globalised, break asunder the assumptions and ethics of a given world?

Reflections on Pasolini’s ‘Weeping Excavator’, by Gerardo Papalia

Arena Magazine no. 140

Gerardo Papalia

Feb 2016

Capitalism and the destruction of the sacred
"As Malcolm Turnbull faces the reality of an unpredictable public and an imminent election, he…

Liberal Tax Dilemma a Sign of the Times

13 Mar 2016

As Malcolm Turnbull faces the reality of an unpredictable public and an imminent election, he is not finding life all that easy.. Being popular without actual policy had only a short term prospect, and most actual policies that are briefly floated turn out to be fraught one way or another. The most exciting of times are hardly straight-forward.
"With the death of Margaret Thatcher we might reflect that we certainly need political leadership…

Thatcher’s ‘Miracles’ Live On

Arena Magazine 123

Apr 2013

With the death of Margaret Thatcher we might reflect that we certainly need political leadership in a new key after the debacles unleashed by the leaders of the 1980s.
"Julia Gillard has announced the date of the next election. As she dons spectacles for…

Shifting Ground by Alison Caddick

Arena Magazine 122

Alison Caddick

Feb 2013

Julia Gillard has announced the date of the next election. As she dons spectacles for the first time in public, perhaps hoping for the well-known ‘halo effect’ of glasses suggesting intelligence, here perhaps rationality, the message is all about purpose, planning and technical competence. What we’re getting is a PM and a party serious about […]