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High Voltage Heptarchy:
Nobility & Neo-Feudalism in the Troubadour Traditions of British & German Folk Rock

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Part, the first — Roots & Rituals

Time will pass away
Time will guard our secret
I’ll return again
To fight another day
I’d have to be a warrior
A slave I couldn’t be
A soldier and a conqueror
Fighting to be free

—Warrior, Wishbone Ash, 1972 Read more …

Published: October 2, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, English jurisprudence, European history, Fenek Solère, jurisprudence, North American New Right, Old Bavarian, Old English, Old High German, Old Norse, Old Saxon, originals, Textus Roffensis | Comments closed

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John Everett Millais’ Isabella

Christopher Pankhurst

John Everett Millais, Self-Portrait

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If you think of the Pre-Raphaelites you will probably be put in mind of flame-haired women in medieval dress or perhaps the depiction of a scene from a biblical or mythological story. The aesthetic appeal of such paintings seems to derive from a pre-modernist craving for something formally beautiful in its own right, without any sense of remove or cynicism. And if you consider that the tail end of the Pre-Raphaelite movement preceded the emergence of Dada by only a few years then it really does seem as though the Brotherhood marked a final statement in the history of Western art. Read more …

Published: May 20, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art criticism, articles, Boccaccio, Charles Dickens, Christopher Pankhurst, Grayson Perry, Isabella, J. R. R. Tolkein, John Everett Millais, John Keats, North American New Right, originals, painting, poetry, Roberto Ferri, the Pre-Raphaelites, Thomas Gainsborough | Comments closed

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The Presence of the Past:
From Ancestor Worship to Hauntology

Christopher Pankhurst

William Blake, “Hamlet and his Father’s Ghost”

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We never manage to bury the dead completely. Their words still echo down to us from beyond life’s event horizon in direct contravention of physical law. Our stance towards death is a determining factor in how the dead return to us; in what form and with what significance they haunt the living. Although they are always there, the ways in which they interact with us vary and shift through time. And, at the present time, there is a strange blend of residual religious funerary rites and atheistic materialism. It feels very much as though we go through the motions of dispatching the dead to the next world without believing a word of it. Read more …