editorial – arena

Hidden from view in our lives in general, animal death is very hard to bear, and with the once relatively confident justifications for it beginning to slip away, the rawness tends to come into focus.

Tagged Alison Caddick, Arena Magazine May-June 2011 | Comments (0)

“We live in a liberal democratic society in which democracy has come to mean openness to individuals’ personal rights and needs, with virtually no examination of what they might mean” writes Alison Caddick

Tagged Alison Caddick, Arena Magazine February-March 2011, democracy, post-humanist, psychology, social democracy, Surrogacy, Surrogate democrary | Comments (2)

WikiLeaks: Power and the Network

January 2, 2011 – 8:32 pm

The underlying story in all this is not the content but the form—the form of the vehicle that brings the revelations in this mass (apparently) uninterpreted form, and the claims that are being made of it, writes Alison Caddick

Tagged Alison Caddick, Arena Magazine December-January 2011, editorial, Julian Assange, Wikileaks | Comments (0)

Afghanistan: Gift or Grand Conceit?

November 14, 2010 – 9:10 am

It is beyond most Westerners to understand today how offers of democracy are really much more than this: there is a widespread incapacity to grasp the social assumptions embedded in our ‘gifts’ writes John Hinkson