Arena Quarterly no. 1

Inaugural issue of Arena Quarterly

Editorial: Will the Fires Change Everything?

We are passing into an elemental moment, but do we have the language for grasping this?

Arena Quarterly issue no. 1, 2020

Title	Author	PagePg.
Editorial
Will the Fires Change Everything?	Alison Caddick	2
Features
FROM THE AMAZON TO AUSTRALIA, AND ALL OVER The depth of the planetary crisis	Arturo Escobar	4
TIME IN THE ANTHROPOCENE What must humanity become when we are out of time?	Bruce Buchan	8
MELANCHOLIA IN FIELDS OF FIRE Will the fires lead us to a proper mourning?	Julie Macken	13
GREEN PATHWAYS TO A PEOPLE'S FUTURE Managing a climate emergency democratically	Adam Bandt	20
PUSH'EM ALL: CORRODING THE RULE OF LAW	Desmond Manderson	24
THE LIMITS OF CONTROL Surveillance as a surrogate for solidarity	Timothy Erik Ström	38
'NATIVIST' SOCIAL MOVEMENT TO 'POSTCOLONIAL' DEMOCRATISATION Myths of history and identity leading to the Hong Kong protests	Allen Chun	43
AMERICAN–IRANIAN ENMITY Trump’s regional strategies are being undermined by Iran’s new alliances	Amin Saikal	50
Arena Essay
SHOCK OF THE NEW New nationalism and the crisis of political progressivism	Guy Rundle	62
ARTS AND CULTURE
THE NEW ANTHROPOSCENERY When our desire for urban nature becomes a performance of mastery	Siobhan Lyons	74
VISUAL ESSAY
THE BUILD UP	Abigail Varney	55
REVIEW ESSAYS
LEARNING, HEARING, KNOWING Samia Khatun’s Australianama and Reg Dodd and Malcolm McKinnon’s Talking Sideways	Eve Vincent	81
FROM UNIVERSAL LOVE TO GLOBAL ANOMIE Christos Tsiolkas’ Dasmascus and Michel Houellebecq’s Serotonin	Simon Cooper	85
SCENES FROM A BROTHEL David Simon’s The Deuce and Moira Buffini and Alison Newman’s Harlots	Grazyna Zajdow	91
POETRY
SUMMER 2020: THREE POEMS 'Revelations', 'The Last Post', and 'Straw Dogs'	Barry Hill	71
THE FREE AND THE BRAVE	Robert DiNapoli	37

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Arena Quarterly no. 1

Editorial: Will the Fires Change Everything?

Arena Quarterly issue no. 1, 2020

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