SUBJECTIVE TIME: HOW TO MASTER THE YEARS

Posted on January 21, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged capitalism, featured, focus, life, life expectancy, modernism, money, Mrs Dalloway, NHS, objective, postmodernism, power, reflection, Schiller, self care, self-help, Sonia Golani, subjective, time, Virginia Woolf.

by Sunetra Senior

Around this time of year, you’ll have witnessed a flood of articles that aggressively motivate you to increase your dwindling productivity and ‘get yourself back on’ the proverbial ‘track’. If you’re the Daily Mail, you might be delightedly telling people how average UK life expectancy has ground disastrously ‘to a halt.’ However, this obsession with life span and these generally flat, statistical measures of personal power are the real issue, and what I would argue even obscure the long-term, self-preservative solution.Continue Reading

A CHANGE IS AS GOOD AS A REST?

Posted on December 23, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged confession, depression, disability, ehlers danlos sydrome, healthcare, life, mental health, mental health stigma, mental illness, norwich, personal, Perspectives, PTSD, royal national orthopaedic hospital, Scotland, uk.

by Alice Thomson

So much has happened in only a few months, for me personally as well as globally – let’s be honest, the the past year’s events in the United States of America alone of the past year would be tough to sum up in a 1,000 word article. I don’t think I could do justice to the topic. As this is my first article in a while, I thought I’d focus on what I’ve been up to, to give you an idea of the reasons for my absence the last few months.Continue Reading

EASTER EGGS AND THE CAMPUS CONVENIENCE CONSUMERISM CONUNDRUM

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged beauty, berlin, bins, chocolate, climate change, coffee, coffee cups, consumerism, convenience, Easter, Easter eggs, environment, environmentalism, excess, food industry, food waste, future generations, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, individualism, life, luxury, Milena Glimbovski, nature, NUA, on-the-go, Original Unverpackt, packaging, plastics, recycling, Sara Wolf, spring, student life, students, UEA, universities, Wake Up and Smell the Waste, waste, young people.

By Laura Potts

As spring approaches, so do the grasping hands of Easter and the shelves full of egg-shaped chocolate treats, in a hundred sizes and colours. But the main thing I notice as I walk through the supermarket is the quantity of packaging that comes with them. Each egg is sealed in plastic and stored in a cardboard box, and most come with other individually wrapped chocolates. The brightly coloured decorations upon the eggs and boxes are reminiscent of nature and the beautiful colours of spring.

The great irony, of course, is that the packaging boasting this decoration directly contributes to the destruction of that natural beauty. Through this attitude to resources, companies are investing in a ‘throw away society’, and future generations will have to carry the burden.

THE INTERNET IS BREAKING

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged AI, alternative intelligence, archaeologists, Baghdad battery, break, civilisations, digital age, evolution, external, God, gods, google maps, human engineering, internet, ipad, life, malfunction, mortality, promethean, radio, simplify, technology, Turing test, virtual world.

by Pip Morgan

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” -Vladimir Lenin.

The internet is breaking, this news greeted my ears during the early days of last summer, the man speaking on the radio (the expert), was trying very hard to make the problem intelligible to the layman, explaining the momentary stammers and false starts. Interestingly this is the recent diagnosis that the internet received; at running the risk of over simplifying; it is ‘on the blip’.

All over the world there are anonymous administrators monitoring the waves, and giving it the occasional zap with the equivalent of a defibrillator when servers become overloaded.Continue Reading

MY CONFESSION

Posted on January 21, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged depression, disability, ehlers danlos sydrome, healthcare, life, mental health, mental health stigma, mental illness, personal, Perspectives, royal national orthopaedic hospital.

by Alice Thomson

It’s January, and we all know what that means. Short days, cold weather, no money and January Blues. For many, this can be a tough, unhappy time of year. For some – especially those with mental illnesses – it can be even worse. One in four people suffer with depression. I am part of that one in four. This is for them, and for those want to try to understand.

AN ORDINARY DAY

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #prayersforbrussels, #readwomen, Aleppo, Alessandra Racca, ambivalence, an ordinary day, Ankara, bomb, bombings, brussel attacks, Brussels, death, family, grand bassam, headlines, Hilla, italian, italian women, italian women in translation, life, loss, Maiduguri, media, people, peshawar, poem, poetry, prayers for brussels, suicide attacks, terror, terrorism, translation, women, women writers, write, writing.

by Alex Valente

Original Italian by Alessandra Racca (1979-), ‘Un giorno qualunque’

In the match
between what we call good
and we despise as evil
today a bomb will make noise
smoke will assault the eyes
scattering shards on screens
and people
a woman’s tears
will stand stillContinue Reading

PUPPETEER

Posted on November 1, 2014 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged creative writing, death, italian, italian women in translation, Italy, Jolanda Insana, life, poet, poetry, puppet, sex, translation, women, writing.

by Alex Valente.

Original Italian by Jolanda Insana (1937-2016)

am a puppeteer
and do shows with two puppets only
her and herContinue Reading

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SUBJECTIVE TIME: HOW TO MASTER THE YEARS

A CHANGE IS AS GOOD AS A REST?

EASTER EGGS AND THE CAMPUS CONVENIENCE CONSUMERISM CONUNDRUM

THE INTERNET IS BREAKING

MY CONFESSION

AN ORDINARY DAY

PUPPETEER

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