NOTHING WILL STOP THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

Posted on August 2, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged BRI, business, California, capitalism, china, climate, climate change, climate change denial, destruction, DRC, economy, Endangered Species Act, environment, environmental, featured, fire, fossil fuels, fuel emissions, government, Greece, heat, heatwave, industry, Ireland, Japan, logging, politics, summer, USA.

by Gunnar Eigener

The environment is changing. All across the globe, weather patterns have shifted, resulting in abnormal meteorological behaviour and pushing society towards conditions it is not used to. The UK has just come out of a record-breaking heatwave. Japan declared a national emergency after heatwaves there killed 65 people. Wildfires in Greece left over 70 people dead and in California, over a dozen people are missing as fires spread. Visitors required evacuation from Yosemite National Park and wind threatens to fan flames in Sweden’s forests.

However, should we be surprised by these events? Continue Reading

REVIEW: LARRY SULTAN’S HERE AND HOME, SFMOMA

Posted on July 8, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged art, arts, California, camera, dad, David Foster Wallace, exhibition, family, glam, here and home, home, Homeland, immigrant, larry sultan, mum, Observer, photo, photographs, photography, pictures from home, porn, pose, review, san francisco, sex, Tate, Tracey Emin, visual art, voyeur.

by Hannah Rose

Finding the right home for his pictures was a feature of Larry Sultan’s early career. Museums and galleries dismissed his satirical images—which played out an ironic commentary on modern American life—and found themselves on billboards scattered across America instead. Striking and immediate, perhaps they made more of an impact outside gallery walls.

Now Sultan’s photographs can be viewed in galleries including the Solomon Guggenheim Museum and SFMOMA, where his collection Here and Home is on view until July 23rd.Continue Reading

GENERATION AIRBNB – SAN FRANCISCO

Posted on June 24, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged Airbnb, California, crisis, frisco, gentrification, Google, home, homeless, homelessness, housing, neoliberalism, prison, rent, san francisco, startups, Summer of Love, tech, The Mission, travel, Uber, US, USA, Valencia, work.

by Hannah Rose

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
Allen Ginsberg, San Francisco. 1955

Aliyah has lived in San Francisco’s Mission district her entire life, which I estimate at being around twenty-eight years. Mission is the city’s working class and Latino area. She sleeps on the living room floor. The TV is on and throws intermittent light over her slumbering form, phone still in hand. I have to step over Aliyah on my way to her room—which I am renting through Airbnb for the week—and am careful not to wake her despite the blare of the TV. On the wall, beneath a tangle of half-deflated gold balloons left over from a party, is a giant poster of Whitney Houston—the queen of pop. Behind the water cooler is the silhouetted form of Michael Jackson—the king of pop—suspended on tippy-toes and ‘He Lives’ stencilled beneath.

Photographs of Aliyah and her husband smile back at me from heart-shaped frames that decorate the far wall and on a small, white canvas the words ‘Life is the Flower for which Love is the Honey’ are in poppy-red. One of a few splashes of colour in this windowless, dimly lit apartment.Continue Reading

TAINTED FOOD: HOW THE FOOD WE EAT IS CONTAMINATED BY OUR WASTE

Posted on November 8, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged amazon, California, Chevron-Texaco, crops, drought, food, genetic modification, globalisation, GMO, governments, health, Kevin McCarthy, nestle, pressure, SEGH, sewage, trade deals, waste, watchdog, water.

by Gunnar Eigener

“But if you’re gonna dine with them cannibals, sooner or later, darling, you’re gonna get eaten….”
Nick Cave

GMO agriculture regularly grab the headlines, whether it’s talk of ‘frankenfoods’ or the ability to generate larger crop yields. This has taken the focus away from an issue that is becoming increasingly detrimental to global health: the entry of industrial waste into the food cycle and human consumption.

GMOs, while unpopular, have been genetically altered so as to maximise the success rate of production of crops. This will save lives, enabling crops to grow in conditions that would normally tend to push harvests towards failure. The changing of weather patterns have created new wet and dry points, affecting crop cycles and affecting the amount of food available for communities already living close to the edge. But water is becoming an issue. Only about 3% of the world’s water is freshwater and with companies like Nestle being allowed to extract vast quantities from aquifiers for minimal cost, alternatives are being sought be provide enough water for crop irrigation.Continue Reading

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NOTHING WILL STOP THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

REVIEW: LARRY SULTAN’S HERE AND HOME, SFMOMA

GENERATION AIRBNB – SAN FRANCISCO

TAINTED FOOD: HOW THE FOOD WE EAT IS CONTAMINATED BY OUR WASTE

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