Editorial – Issue 47/48. ‘Confronting a New Leviathan’, by Dan Tout
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This issue of Arena Journal, as many before it have been, is concerned with both specific and more general processes of transformation and crisis. While, considered together, the contents of this issue paint a bleak picture about the contemporary situation and future prospects, they also point towards more hopeful, if provisional and conditional futures.
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’
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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Four 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’, ‘Misreading the Deeper Current: The Limits of Economic Rationality’, ‘A Postmodern Market Society?’ (Frankel), and ‘Ships in the Night: A Reply to Boris Frankel’
Foundation Arena Articles: Alison Caddick
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Two articles on feminism by Alison Caddick, from 1986 and 1992: ‘Feminism and the Body’, and ‘Feminist and Postmodern: Donna Haraway’s Cyborg’
Foundation Arena Articles: Gerry Gill
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‘Post-Structuralism as Ideology’: An article in PDF format by Gerry Gill, from Arena issue 69, 1984
Call for paper proposals — Humanity: Surplus to requirements
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We invite proposals for papers that explore the issue of ‘surplus humanity’. Provocative incursions in the range of 2-3,000 words as well as proposals for fully developed papers of 7-8,000 words are welcomed.