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

THINGS ONLY WOMEN WRITERS HEAR AND THE TROUBLE WITH TWITTER

Posted on April 29, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #everydaysexism, #readwomen, #thingsonlywomenwritershear, #whatwocwritershear, chocolat, comments, echo chamber, family, gender, genre, harassment, Joanne Harris, Laura Bates, misogyny, online, online community, Paul Friere, publishing, rolling stones, sharing, social media, trolling, trolls, twitter, Virginia Woolf, wombles, women writers, writers, writing.

by Hannah Rose

Virginia Woolf stated in her 1929 seminal essay A Room of One’s Own that, because women remain unequal to men in society, they are less likely to succeed as writers. A writer has two basic requirements in order to write productively: an independent income which provides basic necessities—food and shelter— and uninterrupted writing time. In 1929, the majority of British women were either working to provide the basic necessities for others, and did not have a private space in which to pursue a creative life or an independent income. This, says Wolf, is why the literary canon is dominated by men. “Intellectual freedom,” she writes, “depends upon material things.”

Almost a century later, some women are still having to argue their right to a creative life.Continue Reading

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