Author Archives: Jonathan Bowden

Jonathan Bowden

Jonathan Bowden, 1962–2012, was a British novelist, playwright, painter, essayist, and orator.

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Robert E. Howard & the Heroic:
The Complete Audio & Transcript

Jonathan Bowden

61:00 / 10,112 words

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Published: June 11, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Conan the Barbarian, fantasy literature, Jack London, Jonathan Bowden, manliness, North American New Right, originals, Puritanism, Robert E. Howard, Solomon Kane | Comments closed

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New Release Date!
Pulp Fascism:
Right-Wing Themes in Comics, Graphic Novels, & Popular Literature

Jonathan Bowden

100 words

Jonathan Bowden’s Pulp Fascism has a new release date for a very good reason: we learned that there was a complete recording out there of his fragmentary Robert E. Howard speech. That recording has been found and is in the hands of our transcriptionist.

The E-book edition of the book will be available by June 14th and the print versions will be available about 10 days to 2 weeks after that.

Published: June 8, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Jonathan Bowden, news item, Pulp Fascism | Comments closed

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Robert E. Howard & the Heroic

Jonathan Bowden

8,124 words

Editor’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by John Morgan of a lecture by Jonathan Bowden, “Robert Erwin Howard: Pulpster Extraordinaire,” given at the 26th New Right meeting in London on Saturday, April 17, 2010. The audio is available on YouTube.

Published: May 14, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Conan the Barbarian, fantasy literature, heroism, Jack London, Jonathan Bowden, manliness, North American New Right, originals, Protestantism, Puritanism, Robert E. Howard, Solomon Kane | Comments closed

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Jonathan Bowden’s Last Interview, Part 2: Transcript

Jonathan Bowden

Jonathan Bowden, in the moment

4,643 words

Podcast here

Transcript by V. S. and S. F.

Greg Johnson: You are an author as well as a reader of comics and graphic novels. Read more …

Published: April 29, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Ayn Rand, comics and graphic novels, Darwinism, devolution, film, film music, Friedrich Nietzsche, heroism, Jonathan Bowden, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Robert E. Howard, superheroes, Traditionalism | Comments closed

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Forthcoming from Counter-Currents!
Pulp Fascism:
Right-Wing Themes in Comics, Graphic Novels, & Popular Literature

Jonathan Bowden

Jonathan Bowden
Pulp Fascism: Right-Wing Themes in Comics, Graphic Novels, and Popular Literature
Edited by Greg Johnson
San Francisco: Counter-Currents
210 pages

Hardcover: $35

Paperback: list price $20, our price $18

Published: April 26, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents title, news item | Tagged Bowden book, Jonathan Bowden, news item, Pulp Fascism | Comments closed

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Hans-Jürgen Syberberg:
Leni Riefenstahl’s Heir?

Jonathan Bowden

53:48 / 7,483 words

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Editor’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by V. S. of a lecture by Jonathan Bowden given at the 14th New Right meeting in London on April 5, 2008. Read more …

Published: April 23, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Adolf Hitler, articles, Germany, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Hitler: A Film from Germany, Hitler: Ein Film aus Deutschland, Jonathan Bowden, Leni Riefenstahl, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Parsifal, Richard Wagner, the holocaust, white guilt, Winifred Wagner | Comments closed

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Thoughts on Francis Bacon

Jonathan Bowden

594 words

Edited by Alex Kurtagić

Editor’s Note:

The following is excerpted from Jonathan Bowden’s Skin, a book he wrote in the early 1990s. The text has been lightly edited, mainly for punctuation, spelling, and capitalization.

Published: April 2, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged art criticism, book excerpts, Francis Bacon, Jonathan Bowden, nihilism, North American New Right, painting, reprints, Samuel Beckett | Comments closed

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Pulp Fascism

Jonathan Bowden

9,838 words

Editor’s Note:

The following text is a transcription by V. S. of a lecture entitled “Léon Degrelle and the Real Tintin,” delivered at the 21st meeting of the New Right, London, June 13, 2009. The lecture can be viewed on YouTube here. (Please post any corrections as comments below.)

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Thoughts on Samuel Beckett

Jonathan Bowden

1,340 words

Edited by Alex Kurtagić

Editor’s Note:

The following is excerpted from Jonathan Bowden’s Skin, a book he wrote in the early 1990s. The text has been lightly edited, mainly for punctuation, spelling, and capitalization.

In Samuel Beckett’s work . . . , which has become emblematic of the modern condition, Read more …

Published: March 14, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Arnold Geulincx, Arthur Schopenhauer, book excerpts, drama, existentialism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jonathan Bowden, minimalism, nihilism, North American New Right, philosophy, René Descartes, reprints, Samuel Beckett | Comments closed

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Counter-Currents Radio
The Real Meaning of Punch & Judy

Jonathan Bowden

56:35 / 10,232 words

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Published: March 11, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Tagged Counter-Currents Radio, culture, folk art, Jonathan Bowden, oratory, podcasts, Punch and Judy, rhetoric, theater | Comments closed

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Marxism & Satanism

Jonathan Bowden

1,320 words

Edited by Alex Kurtagić

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The Following is an excerpt from Blood, written between April and May 1992. Read more …

Published: March 1, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book excerpts, Christianity, Jonathan Bowden, Marxism, North American New Right, religion, reprints, Satanism, vitalism | Comments closed

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Bowden on Bowden
You Can Never Be Too Right Wing!

Jonathan Bowden

506 words

Edited by Alex Kurtagić

Editor’s Note:

The following excerpt is from Jonathan Bowden’s Frenzy, a book he finished writing before April 3, 1994. The text has been mildly edited for punctuation, spelling, and capitalization.

As far as my own political views are concerned, I do not believe you can be too Right wing. Read more …

Published: February 18, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged book excerpts, Jonathan Bowden, nihilism, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints | Comments closed

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Jonathan Bowden on Wyndham Lewis

Jonathan Bowden

Wyndham Lewis, “La Suerte,” 1938

53:47 / 54 words

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One of Jonathan Bowden’s most compelling lectures: the life and work of Right-wing Nietzschean modernist painter, novelist, and critic Wyndham Lewis. Read more …

Published: February 11, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Tagged Counter-Currents Radio, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jonathan Bowden, literature, modernism, National Socialism, painting, podcasts, Wyndham Lewis | Comments closed

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The Comic Book as Linear Energy

Jonathan Bowden

Modesty Blaise

903 words

Edited by Alex Kurtagić

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The following is excerpted from a book called Scum, written in 1992. Read more …

Published: February 5, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Batman, biologial sex differences, biological sex differences, Doctor Doom, graphic novels and comics, heroism, Jonathan Bowden, Modesty Blaise, sexuality, Superman, the Joker | Comments closed

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Cultural Communism & the Inegalitarian Basis of All Genuine Art

Jonathan Bowden

2,122 words

Edited by Alex Kurtagić

Editor’s Note:

The Following is an excerpt from Blood, written between April and May 1992. It is part of a much longer discussion about art, where Bowden explores one of his favorite themes: the art of the radical Left versus the art of the radical Right. Read more …

Published: January 30, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged art, art criticism, Communism, degenerate art, Guy Debord, Jonathan Bowden, Marxism, modern art, nihilism, North American New Right, Raoul Vaneighem, reprints, Situationism, Stewart Home | Comments closed

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Jonathan Bowden’s Last Interview, Part 1: Transcript

Jonathan Bowden

5,888 words

Podcast here

Welcome to Counter Currents Radio. I’m your host Greg Johnson. With us today is Jonathan Bowden. First of all, I need to ask you is it “Boden” or Bowden?

JB: Depends where you are in England basically, if you are in the North of England you say “Boden,” but if you are from the South of England, and I’m from the South of England, you say Bowden. Read more …

Published: January 25, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged architecture, Arno Breker, Ayn Rand, classical music, Counter-Currents Radio, David Lynch, Dimitri Shostakovich, film, Flannery O'Connor, Francis Bacon, Gertrude Stein, Greg Johnson, interviews, J. G. Ballard, Jonathan Bowden, Leni Riefenstahl, modernism, opera, originals, Pablo Picasso, painting, podcasts, poetry, Robinson Jeffers, Salvador Dalí, Socialist Realism, William Blake | Comments closed

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The Communist Cell at Cambridge University, Part 2

Jonathan Bowden

2,388 words

Guy Burgess

Edited by Alex Kurtagić

Part 2 of 2

Editor’s Note:

The following is an excerpt from Jonathan Bowden’s Vermin. Read more …

Published: January 24, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Anthony Blunt, Cambridge University, Communism, David Haden-Guest, Donald Maclean, E. J. Hobsbawn, England, Enoch Powell, espionage, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Guy Burgess, homosexuality, individualism, Jonathan Bowden, Kim Philby, Marxism, nihilism, Rajani Palme Dutt, The Apostles, the USSR | Comments closed

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The Communist Cell at Cambridge University, Part 1

Jonathan Bowden

Spy Kim Philby honored on Soviet postage stamp

3,017 words

Edited by Alex Kurtagić

Part 1 of 2

Editor’s Note:

The following is an excerpt from Jonathan Bowden’s Vermin. The book was written sometime between 1990 and 1991. The text has only been lightly edited for punctuation, spelling, and capitalization.