A university professor and an engineer built a hitchhiking robot over a decade ago named hitchBOT. The project was meant to be an interesting experiment relating to human interaction with technology, robots, artificial intelligence, and ultimately, trust. hitchBOT could not move, but he could speak, asking humans to give him a ride and make basic small talk. The robot roadway companion had a global positioning system, social media access, and a camera that he used to document his journeys. (more…)
Tag: commemorations
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Spanish translation here
Yukio Mishima was one of the giants of twentieth-century Japanese literature. He has exercised an enduring influence on the post-World War II European and North American New Right. In commemoration of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this website:
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We are not exactly sure when George Ivanovich Gurdjieff arrived on this Earth, but it was probably January 13, around 1866. He was born in Alexandropol, then part of the Russian Empire, to a Greek father (an ashik or singer-poet) and an Armenian mother. As a young man, Gurdjieff travelled through the Middle East and Central Asia for around 20 years, searching for enlightenment. (more…)
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Robinson Jeffers was born on January 10, 1887.
Once regarded as one of the greatest American poets, Jeffers is largely forgotten by the literary establishment today, no doubt because of his politically incorrect subjects and views. A Nietzschean who was accused of fascist sympathies (which he denied), he celebrated nature and the outdoors in his work, eschewing the abstruse modernist style that was fashionable in his day. (more…)
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Anthony Mario Ludovici was born on January 8, 1882.
Ludovici was one of the first and most accomplished translators of Nietzsche into English and a leading exponent of Nietzsche’s thought. Ludovici was also an original philosopher in his own right. (more…)
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Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. A prolific scholar and dazzling stylist, Watts is best known as the chief popularizer of Asian philosophy for the Beat and Hippy movements, but he was also an original thinker in his own right and a quiet man of the Right. In commemoration of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to these works at Counter-Currents: (more…)
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“I am in fact a Hobbit.” — J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is a favorite author of New Left “hippies” and New Right nationalists, and for pretty much the same reasons. Tolkien deeply distrusted modernization and industrialization, which replace organic reciprocity between man and nature with technological dominion of man over nature, a relationship that deforms and devalues both poles. (more…)
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This evening and tomorrow, white families around the world will gather in homes, churches, and at parties to celebrate Christmas. In today’s increasingly unhinged world, it is easy to feel cast adrift. Christmas offers us a chance to reconnect with friends, families, and our own identities.
Counter-Currents, made possible by our wonderful donors and readers, strives throughout the year to be an island of sanity and your hub for thoughtful discussion on nationalism, race, and culture. (more…)
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It has been a year since one of the fathers of Spanish revisionism, Joaquim Bochaca Oriol, left us. It has been a year in which we have missed not only his sagacity and understanding, but also his irony and sense of humor. (more…)
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Today is the 80th birthday of Alain de Benoist, the founder and leading thinker of the French “New Right” who redefined the Right in post-war Europe, and ultimately transcended the Left/Right divide altogether in his effort to oppose and surpass liberalism. His thought is also central to the Counter-Currents project. The immense breadth of his work spans far more than merely the political, however, encompassing significant works on anthropology, literature, philosophy, religion, and other topics as well. (more…)
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December 11, 2023 F. Roger Devlin
Remembering Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
December 11, 1918–August 3, 20081,418 words
In memory of novelist, historian, Nobel laureate, and man of the Right Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, we are reprinting F. Roger Devlin’s obituary from The Occidental Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 1 (2008) as well as a list of other works about Solzhenitsyn on Counter-Currents. — Greg Johnson
The whole purpose of the revolution was to make a man like him impossible. They were forging a new being from the pliable stuff of human nature, one which would fit seamlessly into the classless society of the future. (more…)
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Czech version here
Like other Nordic countries, Finland has a strong conformist mentality. The Law of Jante is in force to keep too headstrong or conflict-seeking individuals leashed. In this respect, it is strange that one of the modern Finnish cultural icons is a character as extreme as Pentti Linkola. (more…)