commodification – arena

Tag Archives: commodification

Habeas Corpus

October 2, 2001 – 7:51 pm

Angela Mitropoulos: Citizens are commodities, dialogue is dead and civilisation is barbaric in the new global order. Against capital and state, open borders represent hope.

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also tagged activism, Angela Mitropoulos, anti-globalisation, Bhuta, border policing, citizenship, civil society, civilisation, colonisation, corporatism, Costello, G8, global protest movement, globalisation, hierarchy, J18, lobbyists, Maksimovic, mediation, migration policy, Patrick Buchanan, protesters, public relations (PR), Ralph Nader, rule of law, S11, second world, sovereignty, state, state violence, sweatshops, Third World, Third World debt, wage labour, World Economic Forum (WEF) | Comments (0)

On the Frontier of the Bio-tech Boom

August 2, 2001 – 7:36 pm

Kate Cregan: Victoria Embraces the Genetic Argument Without Argument

Posted in against the current | Also tagged agricultural research, Australian Health Ethics Committee, biotechnology, Deloitte Biotech Index, human cloning, Infertility Act, John Brumby, Kate Cregan, medical research, Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development, Monash University, Scott Kinnear, stem cells, synchrotron, therapeutic cloning | Comments (0)

AIDS in Africa

April 2, 2001 – 9:26 am

Guy Rundle on Big Pharma’s response to the AIDS epidemic in Africa

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Africa, AIDS, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, biotechnology, chemical compounds, free trade, generic drugs, genes, George W Bush, Guy Rundle, intellectual property, molecular biology, patent applications, pharmaceutical companies, political lobbying, postmodern economy, private property, public funding, public relations, trade legislation | Comments (0)

Liberal Post-Humanism?

November 2, 2000 – 6:53 am

Alison Caddick on Peter Singer and the Genetic Manipulation of Intelligence

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Alison Caddick, bio-tech, genetic engineering, genetic manipulation, human cloning, Peter Singer | Comments (0)

Capital’s First International?

June 2, 2000 – 4:41 pm

James Goodman The World Economic Forum is Coming to Town

Posted in against the current | Also tagged academia, Al Gore, Asia, Bill Clinton, capitalism, Chief Executives, class, corporate responsibility, democracy, economic research, environmentalism, executive salaries, George Soros, global inequality, globalisation, International Monetary Fund (IMF), James Goodman, Kofi Annan, market fundamentalism, media, neo-liberalism, non-government organisations (NGO), Russia, social dislocation, sustainability, Switzerland, Ted Turner, Tony Blair, trade unions, transnational corporations, United Nations (UN), United States, World Economic Forum (WEF) | Comments (0)

Shock Fetish Shoes, Sex and Shock

April 2, 2000 – 4:30 pm

Michele Willson asks how far can shock advertising go before we become unshockable.

Posted in against the current | Also tagged advertising, consumers, cynicism, desenstisation, images, media, mediation, Michele Willson, objectification, sex, sexism, sexual imagery, spectacle society, voyeurism, women | Comments (0)

Loading tweets...

Follow Arena on Twitter