Tag Archives: modernism

Fascism & the Meaning of Life

Alisdair Clarke

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Roger Griffin
Modernism and Fascism: The Sense of a Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Roger Griffin, Professor in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University, first introduced the idea of “Palingenesis” to the field of fascist studies over 15 years ago, making him immediately a leading figure in his chosen vocation. Read more …

Published: March 15, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alisdair Clarke, architecture, art, book reviews, city planning, fascism, Modernism and Fascism, National Socialism, North American New Right, reprints, Roger Griffin | Comments closed

Counter-Currents Radio
Jonathan Bowden on Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis, “La Suerte,” 1938

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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 | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jonathan Bowden, literature, National Socialism, painting, podcasts, Wyndham Lewis | Comments closed

Some Sort of Nietzschean

Alex Kurtagić

Wyndham Lewis in 1917

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Paul O’Keefe
Some Sort of Genius: A Life of Wyndham Lewis
London: Pimlico, 2000

In his acknowledgment pages Paul O’Keefe states that it took him a decade—not including the years of research already donated to him by another writer—to complete his biography of Wyndham Lewis, a project he began in 1990 while he was president of the Wyndham Lewis Society. Read more …

Published: February 6, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kurtagic, book reviews, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jonathan Bowden, literature, North American New Right, originals, painting, Paul O’Keefe, Some Sort of Genius, Wyndham Lewis | Comments closed

Jonathan Bowden’s Last Interview, Part 1: Transcript

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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 | Also 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, opera, originals, Pablo Picasso, painting, podcasts, poetry, Robinson Jeffers, Salvador Dalí, Socialist Realism, William Blake | Comments closed

Classical Modernism & the Art of the Radical Right

Wyndham Lewis, “Red Duet,” 1914

1,095 words

Edited by Alex Kurtagić

Editor’s Note:

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

Published: January 14, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alistair Hamilton, Arno Breker, art criticism, articles, classicism, fascism, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Jonathan Bowden, National Socialism, North American New Right, reprints, Romanticism, Salvador Dalí, surrealism, T. E. Hulme, Wyndham Lewis | Comments closed

Jonathan Bowden’s Last Interview, Part 1

387 words / 47:46

Part 1 of 2

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T. S. Eliot, Part 2

T. S. Eliot, September 26, 1888–January 4, 1965

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Part 2 of 2

Editor’s Note:

T. S. Eliot was born on September 26, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. In honor of his birthday, we are publishing this essay by Kerry Bolton, the second and final part of which appears below.

Published: September 26, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. R. Orage, agrarianism, articles, Christianity, conservatism, Ezra Pound, fascism, Frederick Soddy, Kerry Bolton, literary criticism, literature, North American New Right, originals, philosophy of culture, poetry, Social Credit, T. S. Eliot, the American South, usury | Comments closed

T. S. Eliot, Part 1

Wyndham Lewis, Portrait of T. S. Eliot, 1938

5,352 words

Part 1 of 2

World War I brought to a climax a cultural crisis in Western Civilization that had been proceeding for centuries, when, in the Spenglerian sense, Money overwhelmed Tradition,[1] or, to resort even to Karl Marx, the bourgeoisie supplanted the aristocracy.[2] Industrialization accentuated the process of commercialization, with its concomitant urbanization and the disruption of organic bonds and social cohesion, which has thrown societies into a state of perpetual flux, with culture reflecting that condition. Read more …

Published: September 25, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. R. Orage, articles, Charles Maurras, Christianity, classicism, conservatism, Ezra Pound, fascism, Georges Sorel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Kerry Bolton, literary criticism, literature, monarchism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy of culture, poetry, Romanticism, Social Credit, socialism, syndicalism, T. E. Hulme, T. S. Eliot, the Jewish question | Comments closed

Percy Wyndham Lewis

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Corrected November 22, 2011

Editor’s Note:

This much-expanded version of a previously-published essay on Wyndham Lewis is chapter 8 of Kerry Bolton’s Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence, forthcoming from Counter-Currents.

Percy Wyndham Lewis, 1882–1957, is credited with founding the only modernist cultural movement indigenous to Britain. Read more …

Published: November 18, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, book excerpts, D. H. Lawrence, elitism, Ezra Pound, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Italian futurism, Kerry Bolton, literature, mass society, National Socialism, painting, Percy Wyndham Lewis, vorticism | Comments closed

T. S. Eliot:
Ultra-Conservative Dandy

Wyndham Lewis, "T. S. Eliot"

935 words

For a brief period in the late 1990s there was an attempt to demonize T. S. Eliot as an anti-Semite. This opinion was most ably canvassed by Anthony Julius’ T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form, but the attempt failed, and Eliot’s reputation as a poet now stands even higher than ever.

Thomas Stearns Eliot’s most controversial book was the collection of essays drawn from a series of lectures he gave in 1934 called After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy. Read more …

Published: July 29, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, Jonathan Bowden, literature, North American New Right, originals, poetry, T. S. Eliot | Comments closed

Wyndham Lewis’ Childermass:
Black Metal, without the Music

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Wyndham Lewis
Childermass
New York: Riverrun Press, 2001

Published: November 26, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Jonathan Bowden, literature, North American New Right, originals, Percy Wyndham Lewis, The Childermass, the mass media, World War I | Comments closed

Wyndham Lewis