THIS IS NOT A DEBATE

Posted on November 23, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged antifa, Casapound, class war, classism, context, criticism, Daniel Swift, debate, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, extremism, Ezra Pound, fascism, free speech, hate speech, intellectual, italian, Italy, Literary Hub, literature, LitHub, media, MSM, Mussolini, neo-fascism, no platform, normalisation, pepe, racism, response, Richard Spencer, Roberto Spada, Rome, ValigiaBlu, violence, Voltaire, Wu Ming Foundation.

by Alex Valente

Contains strong language.

If your opinion, if your ideology, if your personal mindset is that certain groups and communities of people are inferior to others, you do not deserve and will not be allowed to promote that idea. Fuck the notion of censorship, fuck the moderate, tolerant conversation, fuck the high road. Your ‘opinion’ denies the existence of a large portion of the world around you, and actively strives to suppress it. So you know what? Fuck you.Continue Reading

REVIEW: KIMI NO NA WA, OR, WHAT’S IN A NAME

Posted on February 16, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Arrival, art, beauty, body swap, Bologna protests, emotion, film review, gender, heterocentric, hope, Italy, Japanese, kataware-doki, Kimi No N Wa, language, Makoto Shinkai, Mark Kermode, media, Mitshua Miyamizu, Mone Kamishiraishi, PD, RADWIMPS, romance, Rome, Ryunosuke Kamiki, script, sexuality, Taki Tachibana, voice actor, What's in a name, women's general strike, Your Name, 君の名は.

by Alex Valente

A quick preface to the following, which also serves as a way to convince myself that I am … allowed to write about this, rather than the Bologna protests, or the political mess in Rome, or the current turmoil on the Italian left-of-centre party PD, or the upcoming women’s general strike. Those are things at the front of my mind – but I will take this week to find a little glimmer of beauty in a sea of constantly rising anger, instead.

Enter then, one of the two films I saw this year that made me think about language, and how we use it, and how it is used in the media. The other is Arrival, and so much has been written about it already, I decided to focus on Makoto Shinkai’s gorgeous animated film 君の名は (‘Kimi no na wa’), released in English as Your Name.Continue Reading

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