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“But it's Alright, Ma, it's Life, and Life Only”: Radicalism as Survival
Author(s) -
Heynen Nik
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
antipode
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1467-8330
pISSN - 0066-4812
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2006.00486.x
Subject(s) - happening , wright , staring , political radicalism , sociology , art history , art , aesthetics , law , political science , performance art , politics , communication
Hunger stole upon me so slowly at first. I was not aware of what hunger really meant [emphasis added]. Hunger had always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger, staring at me gauntly … this hunger baffled me, scared me, made me angry and insistent … I would grow dizzy and my vision would dim. I became less active in my play, and for the first time in my life I had to pause and think of what was happening to me. (Wright 1977) Hey, hey Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song ‘Bout a funny ol' world that's a‐comin' along. Seems sick an' it's hungry, it's tired an' it's torn, It looks like it's a‐dyin' an' it's hardly been born. (Bob Dylan 1962) If no one seems to understand Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a T‐shirt away (Billy Bragg 1998)