 All of these are underpinned by a preoccupation with the questions of social abstraction, including the abstraction of intellectual practices.They include a special emphasis on the cultural and social contradictions of globalised hi-tech society, which the "Arena" editors took to be misrepresented within prevailing media theory and post-structuralism.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.