Tag: technosciences

Fusion Power: Big Energy fuses with Big Spin

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Darrin Durant

24 Feb 2022

On 9 February 2022 researchers at the Joint European Torus (JET) fusion reactor, based at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) in the United Kingdom, announced that ‘JET produced a total of 59 Megajoules of heat energy from fusion over a five second period’, during which JET ‘averaged a fusion power (i.e., energy per […]

Suture Shock: Humanity goes Under the Knife

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Richard King

9 Dec 2021

As we become ever more remote from ‘meatspace’, it’s worth considering the role the scalpel and the needle may play in that development.
"Rod Beecham on The reductio ad absurdum of Commonwealth education policy

My University

Arena Magazine 106

Jun 2010

Rod Beecham on The reductio ad absurdum of Commonwealth education policy
"John Hinkson discusses the implications of two worlds developing on the cultural stage

Two Worlds

Arena Magazine 106

Jun 2010

John Hinkson discusses the implications of two worlds developing on the cultural stage
"Robert Manne and David McKnight’s plan to reform social democracy misses fundamental questions about the…

No Break from ‘All That’?

Arena Magazine 105

Apr 2010

Robert Manne and David McKnight’s plan to reform social democracy misses fundamental questions about the sources of the climate crisis writes Geoff Sharp
"The distancing effects of techno-weaponry and a sanitised global media are the altering the structural…

The Age of Meta-War

Arena Magazine 64

Apr 2003

The distancing effects of techno-weaponry and a sanitised global media are the altering the structural basis of modern warfare writes Paul James
"Geoff Sharp: In the wake of the terrorist attacks in the United States, the tension…

What Hope for Years to Come?

Arena Magazine 55

Oct 2001

Geoff Sharp: In the wake of the terrorist attacks in the United States, the tension between religious piety and imperial power reveals the urgent need for re-examination of the new social forms