 Many of the themes the "Arena" group has explored over the decades relate to those raised by writers like Slavoj Žižek, Zygmunt Bauman and Richard Sennett, and, to some degree, writers associated with the Frankfurt School.However, "Arena"'s critique also suggests that many of these authors stop short of a full critique of the ungrounding of contemporary social life by current global/ technological/ media processes.The quarterly journal "Arena" was founded in Melbourne, Australia in 1963, at a time of crisis for the Old Left and the emergence of the New Left.