Archive: Arena Journal

"This special issue of Arena Journal addresses the accelerating structural displacement of human participation in…

Editorial – issue 51/52: In Humanity’s Wake

Arena Journal no. 51/52

Melinda Hinkson

Jul 2018

This special issue of Arena Journal addresses the accelerating structural displacement of human participation in contemporary society.
"Introduction to Arena Journal no. 49/50, June 2018. By Stephen Ames, Ian Barns, John Hinkson,…

Whither Religion in a World of Compounding Crises?

Arena Journal no. 49/50

Gordon Preece, Ian Barns, John Hinkson, Paul James, Stephen Ames

Jun 2018

Introduction to Arena Journal no. 49/50, June 2018. By Stephen Ames, Ian Barns, John Hinkson, Paul James and Gordon Preece
"This issue of Arena Journal, as many before it have been, is concerned with both…

Editorial – Issue 47/48. ‘Confronting a New Leviathan’, by Dan Tout

Arena Journal no. 47/48

Dan Tout

Jan 2017

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.
"Four articles by Geoff Sharp from Arena issues between 1968 and 1992, in PDF format:…

Foundation Arena Articles: Geoff Sharp

Geoff Sharp

2 Jan 2017

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'
"This issue of Arena Journal emerges from a day-long symposium held at the University of…

Introduction – Issue 45/46 ‘Cold War to Hot Planet: Fifty Years of Arena’

Arena Journal no. 45/46

Jan 2016

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…
"Four articles by Paul James (one with Freya Carkeek), from the eighties and early nineties:…

Foundation Arena Articles: Paul James

Paul James

1 Jan 2017

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'
"Four articles by John Hinkson and a reply by Boris Frankel, from Arena issues spanning…

Foundation Arena Articles: John Hinkson

Boris Frankel, John Hinkson

1 Jan 2017

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'
"Two articles on feminism by Alison Caddick, from 1986 and 1992: 'Feminism and the Body',…

Foundation Arena Articles: Alison Caddick

Alison Caddick

1 Jan 2017

Two articles on feminism by Alison Caddick, from 1986 and 1992: 'Feminism and the Body', and 'Feminist and Postmodern: Donna Haraway's Cyborg'
"'Post-Structuralism as Ideology': An article in PDF format by Gerry Gill, from Arena issue 69,…

Foundation Arena Articles: Gerry Gill

Gerry Gill

1 Jan 2017

'Post-Structuralism as Ideology': An article in PDF format by Gerry Gill, from Arena issue 69, 1984
"The recent wave of revolutions across the Arab world has brought to the surface the…

Introduction – Issue 43/44 ‘Making Modernity: From the Mashriq to the Maghreb’

Arena Journal no. 43/44

Jan 2015

The recent wave of revolutions across the Arab world has brought to the surface the contradictions in popular understandings of the Middle East and North Africa. The place of the region in the global history of modernity has been unsettled yet again...
"Humans now have the capacity to produce synthetic life-forms (since 2010) and to destroy life…

Editorial – Issue 41/42 ‘People, Planet and the Anthropocene: Spectators of Our Own Demise?’, by Paul James

Arena Journal no. 41/42

Paul James

Jan 2014

Humans now have the capacity to produce synthetic life-forms (since 2010) and to destroy life on this planet as we know it (since 1952). It is only by recognizing this point — that we are now reconstituting the very basis of nature — that adequate acknowledgement of the Anthropocene starts to hit home.
"by Simon Cooper

MOOCs: Disrupting the University or Business as Usual?

Arena Journal no. 39/40

Jan 2013

by Simon Cooper