Arena Publications

Arena Publications Arena is an independent publisher of ideas that explore the history, structures and practices that s

"The long-term, systematically planned nature of the siege needs re-emphasising as a fundamental aspect of the causation...
27/10/2023

"The long-term, systematically planned nature of the siege needs re-emphasising as a fundamental aspect of the causation of the massacres that have taken place on either side of Israel’s militarised border."

Critical * Radical * Australia * Earth

"The solution is based on the peaceful coexistence and the equality of all citizens, regardless of their religion and et...
27/10/2023

"The solution is based on the peaceful coexistence and the equality of all citizens, regardless of their religion and ethnicity, in one democratic state."

Critical * Radical * Australia * Earth

"Seismic exploration has the central contradiction that has been with us since the first nuclear explosions opened the n...
16/08/2023

"Seismic exploration has the central contradiction that has been with us since the first nuclear explosions opened the new epoch: the combination of the highly rational and the entirely mad."

Critical * Radical * Australia * Earth

"The simple and seemingly commonsensical conversation around consent makes it difficult to turn a critical eye to the co...
25/07/2023

"The simple and seemingly commonsensical conversation around consent makes it difficult to turn a critical eye to the concept."

Critical * Radical * Australia * Earth

"Any form of networked computing machinery that could exist properly apart from capitalism would be completely different...
21/07/2023

"Any form of networked computing machinery that could exist properly apart from capitalism would be completely different from the anti-social consumer-media conglomerates that dominate the present."

Critical * Radical * Australia * Earth

"Progressive politics has become increasingly accommodating of state power in the last two decades, reversing positions ...
21/07/2023

"Progressive politics has become increasingly accommodating of state power in the last two decades, reversing positions that have historically underpinned left-liberal politics."

Critical * Radical * Australia * Earth

"The recurrence of this interface between the individual and resonances of the uncanny in late capitalist reproduction i...
18/06/2023

"The recurrence of this interface between the individual and resonances of the uncanny in late capitalist reproduction in DeLillo’s work is something that Baumbach obviously ‘gets’."

Critical * Radical * Australia * Earth

"The evils of the slavery and colonialism gravy-train—of which apartheid Israel is the only latest manifestation—are abs...
18/06/2023

"The evils of the slavery and colonialism gravy-train—of which apartheid Israel is the only latest manifestation—are absented from history and the Western racist-imperialist agenda can be spun as a giant white saviour narrative."

Critical * Radical * Australia * Earth

02/06/2023

"The dilemma for Australian First Nations people is that they are getting a foothold on sovereign claims within the nation, at the same time as the sovereignty that was to be divided is being given away as a whole package." https://arena.org.au/outside-in-aukus/

"This indicates that the risk of psychological injury remains disturbingly high and a consequence of this is a loss of e...
02/06/2023

"This indicates that the risk of psychological injury remains disturbingly high and a consequence of this is a loss of experienced workers in areas of the economy where staffing shortages are already endemic."

Critical * Radical * Australia * Earth

"Is Australia becoming: a retirement village for servants of the US defence-security-intelligence complex?"
12/05/2023

"Is Australia becoming: a retirement village for servants of the US defence-security-intelligence complex?"

Critical * Radical * Australia * Earth

“Australia would look very different if it wasn’t for sustained intergenerational effort to resist the nuclear option.”
08/05/2023

“Australia would look very different if it wasn’t for sustained intergenerational effort to resist the nuclear option.”

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About Arena

Arena is a cooperative project based in Melbourne that critiques and challenges the contemporary status quo. We focus on the socially and environmentally destructive nature of late-capitalist society. While Arena has roots in left traditions, it sees the left–right distinction in politics as outmoded in key ways, arguing that a much more general crisis of life has been set in train along multiple pathways, defying that simple division.

We are focused on the publication of ideas that explore the history, structures and practices that have shaped our world, and that provide openings to new possibilities for cooperative life and flourishing personhood. Arena is especially interested in how people and communities draw on complex cultural histories and life-ways that may defy the logic of late capitalism, and on which basis the social might be understood anew.

The core value of cooperation stands at the centre of what motivates the practices and discussions of people at Arena. It is a value that has had meaning for many groups but needs to be rethought in basic ways given the collapse of older notions of socialist cooperation. This question enlivens all the discussions held in Arena settings and shapes the activities and publications of Arena editors.

We produce two publications: Arena, a new quarterly publication, and Arena Online, a free weekly service available on our website. Arena also organises public discussions, reading and research groups and other activities.