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Mark Dyal

Deleuze, Guattari, & the New Right, Part 4:
Becoming-Revolutionary

Carlo Carra, “Interventionist Demonstration,” 1914

4,943 words

“The question is not, ‘Is it true?’ but, ‘Does it work?’ What new thoughts does it make possible to think? What new emotions does it make possible to feel? What new sensations and perceptions does it open in the body?” – Brian Massumi[1]

A Commentary on Deleuze, Guattari, and the New Right

“Deleuze, Guattari, and the New Right” was written for four reasons, equally ontological and epistemological. Read more …

Published: April 30, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, capitalism, Felix Guattari, Francis Parker Yockey, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, J. F. G. Fichte, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, postmodernism, revolution | Comments closed

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Deleuze, Guattari, & the New Right, Part 3:
Capitalism & Schizophrenia

Mark Dyal

5,738 words

“There are things which do not disturb thought and those which force us to think. The first are objects of recognition: thought and all its faculties may be fully employed therein, thought may busy itself thereby, but such employment and such activity have nothing to do with thinking. Read more …

Published: April 25, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged A Thousand Plateaus, Anti-Oedipus, articles, book reviews, capitalism, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Felix Guattari, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, psychology | Comments closed

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Deleuze, Guattari, & the New Right, Part 2

Mark Dyal

3,479 words

“With Platonism, philosophy becomes a police operation.” – Miguel de Beistegui[1]

The Affect of Truth

Deleuze, Guattari, & the New Right, Part 1

Mark Dyal

Left: Gilles Deleuze, 1925–1995; right: Félix Guattari, 1930–1992

2,847 words

“A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.” – Gilles Deleuze[1]

It Begins with Nietzsche

“We are the Real Subalterns”

Mark Dyal

Manifestazione Casapound e Blocco Studentesco

Casa Pound Student Demonstration

1,344 words

“We are the real subalterns,” I was once told by an activist at CasaPound. His words were astonishing, not only because they so presciently invoke the relationship between CasaPound and the neoliberal Italian state, Read more …

Published: March 7, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged anti-globalization, articles, capitalism, Casa Pound, colonialism, fascism, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, globalization, imperialism, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy, subalternity, white activism, white nationalism | Comments closed

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Licurgo e o Estado Espartano

Mark Dyal

3,651 words

English original here

“E Teopompo, quando um estranho continuou a dizer, conforme ele lhe demonstrou gentileza, que em sua própria cidade ele era considerado amante de Esparta, disse: ‘Meu bom senhor, melhor seria para ti ser chamado amante de tua própria cidade’.” – Plutarco [1]

Assim como Mussolini olhava para a Roma Antiga por um modelo de uma sociedade sadia e orgânica, os antigos romanos olhavam para Esparta. Read more …

Published: December 1, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged ancient Rome, articles, Benito Mussolini, education, eugenics, fascism, in Portuguese, in translation, Italy, Lycurgus, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, Plutarch, reprints, Sparta, warrior ethics | Comments closed

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Musolliniho nový fašistický člověk

Mark Dyal

2,593 words

English original here

“Větší účast na moci znamená odlišné vědomí, cítění, odhodlanost a odlišný úhel pohledu.” Friedrich Nietzsche [1]

“Ocel mě poctivě naučila o souladu mezi duší a tělem: zdálo se mi, že slabé emoce mají za následek ochabování svalů, sentimentalita se projevuje ochabnutím žaludku a přecitlivělost má za následek přecitlivělou bledou kůži. Read more …

Published: December 1, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Benito Mussolini, fascism, in Czech, in translation, Italy, manliness, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, organicism, physical fitness, political philosophy, reprints, the Arditi, vitalism | Comments closed

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Nietzsche, Physiology, & Transvaluation

Mark Dyal

5,519 words

“Whenever the will to power falls off in any way, there will also be physiological decline, decadence. And when the most masculine virtues and drives have been chopped off the god of decadence, he will necessarily turn into a god of the physiologically retrograde, the weak.” – Friedrich Nietzsche[1]

Bourgeois bodies exist only within a matrix of consumption, so much so that even “healthy lifestyles” are merely another marketing niche Read more …

Published: November 21, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Christianity, decadence, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mark Dyal, modernity, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, physical fitness, physiology | Comments closed

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Lycurgus & the Spartan State

Mark Dyal

3,758 words

Portuguese translation here

“And Theompopus, when a stranger kept saying, as he showed him kindness, that in his own city he was called a lover of Sparta, remarked: ‘My good sir, it were better for thee to be called a lover of thine own city.’” – Plutarch[1]

Just as Mussolini looked to Ancient Rome for the model of a healthy, organic society, the Ancient Romans looked to Sparta. Read more …

Published: October 25, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged ancient Rome, articles, Benito Mussolini, education, eugenics, fascism, Italy, Lycurgus, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, originals, physical fitness, Plutarch, Sparta, warrior ethics | Comments closed

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Mussolini’s New Fascist Man

Mark Dyal

2,812 words

Czech translation here

“A greater degree of power corresponds to a different consciousness, feeling, desiring, a different perspectival view.” — Friedrich Nietzsche[1]

“The steel faithfully taught me the correspondence between the spirit and the body: thus feeble emotions, it seemed to me, corresponded to flaccid muscles, Read more …

Published: October 16, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Benito Mussolini, fascism, Italy, manliness, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, organicism, originals, physical fitness, political philosophy, the Arditi, vitalism | Comments closed

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Nietzsche’s Loneliness

Mark Dyal

2,831 words

Dr. Gary Van Cott, the only true colleague I had in 13 years of graduate school, once said that New York City made me a structuralist. Read more …

Published: September 14, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, education, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, originals, Peter Gast, philosophy, transvaluation | Comments closed

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Epistemologia e a Nova Direita

Mark Dyal

Gabriel von Max, “Reading Monkey,” circa 1900

4,806 words

English original here

“Se constrói-se uma ilusão enquanto tal, a vontade – se ela quer continuar a existir – deve construir uma nova” – Nietzsche

Após examinar as duas resenhas da American Renaissance postadas no Counter-Currentes em 1 de agosto de 2012 eu não pude deixar de sentir como eu sempre sentia quando eu também era parte da academia americana. Read more …

Published: August 30, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alexander Dugin, articles, epistemology, Felix Guattari, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, in Portuguese, in translation, Mark Dyal, Michel Foucault, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints | Comments closed

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Epistemology & the New Right

Mark Dyal

Gabriel von Max, “Reading Monkey,” circa 1900

5,363 words

Portuguese translation here

“If one construes a delusion as such, the will — if it wants to continue to exist — must create a new one.” — Nietzsche[1]

After perusing the two American Renaissance review essays posted to Counter-Currents on August 1, 2012, I couldn’t help feeling as I always did when I too was part of the American academy. Read more …

Published: August 21, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alexander Dugin, articles, epistemology, Felix Guattari, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Mark Dyal, Michel Foucault, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | Comments closed

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Paganism Without Swords?

Mark Dyal

Detail from Jacques-Louis David’s “Oath of the Horatii,” 1784

3,600 words

“When swords ran every which way like red-stained snakes, our fathers warmed to life; the sun of all peace seemed limp and lackluster to them, but the long peace caused them shame. How they sighed, our fathers, when they saw gleaming bright, dried up swords on the wall! Like them, they thirsted for war. For a sword wants to drink blood and sparkles with desire.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Read more …

Published: July 24, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alain de Benoist, ancient Rome, articles, Collin Cleary, craft, Friedrich Nietzsche, knives, manliness, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, originals, paganism, swords, Titus Livy, warrior ethics | Comments closed

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The Homeric Gods

Mark Dyal

4,074 words

Athena

Walter F. Otto
The Homeric Gods: The Spiritual Significance of Greek Religion
Translated by Moses Hadas
North Stratford, N.H.: Ayer Company Publishers, 2001

“My goal is to create total enmity between our current ‘culture’ and Antiquity. Whoever wants to serve the former must hate the latter.”—Friedrich Nietzsche[1]