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Reflection on a Time

December 22, 2011 – 10:30 am

by Alison Caddick

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Greens, Marxism, philosophies, Same sex marriage, social theories | Comments (0)

Challenging the Mining Elites

December 15, 2011 – 12:25 pm

The implications for the capitalist economy and Australia’s mining in the face of Climate Change by Conal Thwaite

Posted in features | Also tagged Australian Economy, economics, Marxism, mining | 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

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Adam Smith, Arab, China, colonialism, democracy, global markets, Greens, Greg Sheridan, intifada, Iraq, Israel, John Hinkson, Julia Gillard, market, media, Middle East, Muslim, Pakistan, technology, terrorism, Tony Abbott, United Sates, universities, war, Western culture | Comments (0)

Two Worlds

June 2, 2010 – 3:24 pm

John Hinkson discusses the implications of two worlds developing on the cultural stage

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Arena Magazine June-July 2010, climate change, culture, debt crisis, economics, EU, GFC, global financial crisis, humanities, IMF, individualism, John Hinskon, mining tax, oil, resource tax, technosciences, Tim Jackson, universities | Comments (0)

Food Riots: System Breakdown

April 2, 2008 – 1:13 pm

John Hinkson on food shortages, population growth, climate change, and why neo-liberalism as an untenable social order

Posted in editorial | Also tagged 2020 Summit, bio-fuels, climate change, commodity consumption, ethics, food availability, food prices, food riots, food shortages, global market, global population, global trade, global travel, International Monetary Fund (IMF), John Hinkson, neo-liberalism, oil and gas shortages, peak oil, water availability, World Bank | Comments (0)

Climate Change is Not the Basic Issue

February 2, 2008 – 1:06 pm

GEOFF SHARP argues that the technoscience–capitalism convergence has supercharged climate change. We need a movement to tackle that.

Posted in arena essay | Also tagged Arena Thesis, climate change, Cultural Contradiction, Politics, Science, technology | Comments (0)

Just Keep Walking

February 2, 2006 – 8:42 am

Shame has become passé, a victim of a culture that views it as an impediment to achieving one’s own ends. But at what cost to how we treat others, asks Mark Furlong

Posted in features | Also tagged neo-liberalism, psychology, psychotherapy, Shame | Comments (0)

Black Pluto’s Door

October 2, 2001 – 8:02 pm

Tom Nairn: The beginnings of a new and undisguised american unilateralism has led many to suggest global forms of justice. But peace may only be achieved by overcoming the impasse of nationalisms in the region

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also tagged 9/11, anti-Americanism, authoritarianism, Brendan O’Leary, Christian conservatism, Christianity, Colin Powell, democracy, ethnic cleansing, free trade, fundamentalism, globalisation, hierarchy, imperialism, information technology, Islam, justice, nationalism, OpenDemocracy, oppression, Osama bin Laden, Palestine, propaganda, rationality, recession, religious toleration, secularism, sharia law, technology, terrorism, theocracy, Tom Nairn, unilateralism, United States, war | Comments (0)

I’m Branded

August 2, 2001 – 7:46 pm

Jeannie Rea: No Logo, Naomi Klein, Flamingo/Harper Collins, London, 2001.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged activism, advertising, anarchist theory, anti-corporate movement, appropriation, branding, consumer protest, culture jammers, democracy, environmental destruction, exploitation, free trade, human rights, Jeannie Rea, media, Naomi Klein, product placement, public relations, solidarity, sponsorship, sweat shops, working conditions | Comments (0)

Surviving Reality

April 2, 2001 – 9:24 am

Simon Cooper Reality TV is Social Life Minus the Messy Social Aspect

Posted in against the current | Also tagged detention centres, entertainment, exploitation, game shows, illegal immigrants, indigenous people, John Morse, managerialism, media, men's movements, reality TV, Simon Cooper, spectacle, tourism, voyeurism | Comments (0)

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