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Ideas on Populism, by Bruce Kapferer
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That Trump should inhabit this space [of social media] and make regular use of it indicates a new era of populism as a force of more or less constant pressure on political realities.
Trump: The Point of No Return, by Simon Cooper
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It’s now clear that Trump was not merely full of bluster during campaign mode but intends to realise as many of his promises as possible.
Centrelink’s Data-Matching Fiasco, by Gerard McPhee
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A very predictable disaster
Latest comment: Well done, Gerard. I did not fully understand the nature of the Centrelink debacle, until you explained...
Introduction – Issue 45/46 ‘Cold War to Hot Planet: Fifty Years of Arena’
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This issue of Arena Journal emerges from a day-long symposium held at the University of Melbourne in 2013 marking fifty years of publications by the Arena group. The event was composed of diverse presentations, some from among the original editors of the first series of Arena, some by contributors to that first series and others by editors and contributors from more recent times. The day was marked by an unusual vitality as well as recognition of a unique contribution made by the publications, not only to Australian political and cultural history but also to the development of a theory of social transformation not found in publications elsewhere. There was a strong sense that something of this contribution needed to be reflected upon in a further publication looking back on those past fifty years.
Foundation Arena Articles: Paul James
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Four articles by Paul James (one with Freya Carkeek), from the eighties and early nineties: ‘Australia in the Corporate Image: A New Nationalism’, ‘The Nation and its Post-Modern Critics’, ‘ Theory Without Practice: The Work of Anthony Giddens’, and ‘ This Abstract Body’
Foundation Arena Articles: John Hinkson
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Three articles by John Hinkson and a reply by Boris Frankel, from Arena issues spanning 1982 – 1992: ‘Beyond Imagination? Responding to Nuclear War’, ‘Post-Lyotard: A Critique of the Information Society’, ‘A Postmodern Market Society?’ (Frankel), and ‘Ships in the Night: A Reply to Boris Frankel’
Foundation Arena Articles: Geoff Sharp
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Four articles by Geoff Sharp from Arena issues between 1968 and 1992, in PDF format: ‘Features of the Intellectually Trained’, ‘Intellectuals in Transition’, ‘Constitutive Abstraction and Social Practice’, and ‘Intellectual Interchange and Social Practice’