Tag: neoliberalism

Après moi, le déluge: Artists after Art

Arena Quarterly

Justin Clemens

25 Sep 2020

The ‘artist’ is no longer simply an individual maker, an avant-garde visionary, a person exploring the specifics and limits of a medium, or indeed any of the other familiar figures of aesthetic modernity. Instead, the ‘artist’ is marked out by their success at doing exactly what late capitalism demands; that is, everything, and in a flagrantly vacuous way.

Win-win for capital, lose-lose for us: Google vs. News Corp vs. the Public

Arena Online

Timothy Erik Ström

3 Sep 2020

...the struggle over the News Media Bargaining Code can be seen for what it is: a minor turf war between factions of monopoly capital.

Downsizing the competition: What higher-education managers might learn from the AFLW

Arena Online

Mark Gibson

27 Aug 2020

…both [sport and universities] have seen a massive growth of competitive performance development… The growth of these fields has been associated in both cases with a ballooning management stratum.

Hollowing Out the Humanities: Morrison’s attack on Australia’s Political Potential

Arena Online

Lachlan Howells, Rebecca Persic

20 Aug 2020

… a humanities education is one of the most effective for the underprivileged, offering an environment in which to be critical of the structures that govern our lives while giving rise to discoveries both academic and personal.

Rewilding capitalism: COVID-19 and the rebooting of Australia’s neoliberal order

Arena Online

Richard Hil

20 Aug 2020

Many of us have made the mistake of separating the pandemic from the egregious effects of neoliberal capitalism—they are, in fact, deeply enmeshed, as the genesis of the crisis and its differential effects testify.

Cruel Irony or Structural Cruelty? How Good People are Destroying Our Universities

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Paul James

13 Aug 2020

Here, the cruel irony (of destroying people’s working lives in order to balance the budget) shifts into a further phase: what might be called ‘structural cruelty’.

Renting During COVID-19: Housing Security and Market Failures

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Joanne Knight

28 Jul 2020

After decades of encouraging competition between landlords and tenants, the government has turned around at lightning speed and now wants landlords and tenants to cooperate and negotiate. This is not in the nature of free-market economics...

Unacknowledged Legislators

Arena Quarterly no. 2

Robert DiNapoli

Jul 2020

All the received wisdoms and shibboleths of contemporary politics and economics, which have (among much else) lifted Donald Trump to his present bad eminence and left parliaments in many lands beset by extreme right-wing parties and ideologues, need reviewing in a fresh light.

American Dream

Arena Quarterly no. 2

Alison Caddick

Jul 2020

Not just precarity but destitution threatens under conditions of COVID, and especially in the United States it threatens people of colour.

Last Chance for Universities?

Arena Quarterly no. 2

Simon Cooper

Jul 2020

How bad will it be? Up until the COVID-19 pandemic, international-student revenue for Australian universities had been around 25 per cent across the sector, with many of Australia’s ‘sandstone’ universities relying on international students for at least a third of their income. The loss of much of this revenue for the near to mid-future represents the biggest crisis the sector has faced. …universities will act vigorously to manage their finances.

Everything Is Thinkable, So What Is To Be Done?

Arena Quarterly no. 2

Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson

Jul 2020

This is not a time of species affirmation; it is the hour of gravest peril. It is also a reopening of human possibility.

‘Push’Em All’: Corroding the Rule of Law

Arena Quarterly no. 1

Desmond Manderson

Mar 2020

Australian society is being slowly fractured into classes of differential vulnerability, to whom different laws and rights apply.