Tag Archives: Jacques Derrida

Suddenly, I Love the French

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A few years ago, a friend of mine spent a summer in the south of France with his daughter, who was in grade school at the time. Unfortunately, the daughter caught a bug toward the end of their stay, and my friend made multiple trips to the local pharmacy trying to find the right medicine for her. His French is imperfect, so he struggled to make himself understood by the druggist. Read more …

Published: May 1, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Bleu Blanc Rouge, Brigitte Bardot, France, Francois Truffaut, French election 2017, Front National, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jef Costello, Le Samouraï, Marine Le Pen, North American New Right, originals, René Descartes, the French | Comments closed

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Albion’s Hidden Numina
Folk Horror Revival

Christopher Pankhurst

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Katherine Beem and Andy Paciorek, eds.
Folk Horror Revival: Field Studies
Wyrd Harvest Press, 2015

The term “folk horror” is a relatively recent invention that can be applied to a wide range of artistic creations, not all of them belonging to the horror genre. It was popularized by the 2010 BBC TV documentary A History of Horror where the term was used to describe three horror films: Witchfinder General, The Blood on Satan’s Claw, and The Wicker Man. Read more …

Published: December 21, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Albion's Hidden Numina, Andy Paciorek, book reviews, Christopher Pankhurst, David Rudkin, England, folk horror, Folk Horror Revival, hauntology, horror literature, Katherine Beem, Kill List, M. R. James, Marxism, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, Penda's Fen, Terry Eagleton, the numinous, the occult, the spirit of place, The Wicker Man, weird fiction | Comments closed

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Stewart Home:
Communism, Nihilism, Neoism, & Decadence

Jonathan Bowden

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Editor’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by V.S. of one of Jonathan Bowden’s most entertaining lectures, which was delivered to the 25th New Right meeting in London on February 13, 2010. Although Stewart Home is the principal subject, Bowden romps through a wide field of politically correct theories, ultra-Left sects, and decadent forms of modern art.

Toward a Right-Wing Hauntology:
Mark Fisher’s Ghosts of My Life

Christopher Pankhurst

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Mark Fisher
Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2014

Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx was an attempt to resurrect Marxism. Published in 1993, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe, Specters of Marx was an attempt to disrupt the apparent flow of historical progression Read more …

Published: June 27, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews Mark Fisher, Christopher Pankhurst, classical music, cyclical history, decadence, Ghosts of My Life, Giacinto Scelsi, hautology, Marxism, North American New Right, nostalgia, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, The Caretaker, The Shining, Traditionalism | 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 …

Published: June 9, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged ancestor worship, Anglo-Saxons, articles, Asatru, Beowulf, capitalism, Christopher Pankhurst, Frederick Jameson, Freyr, funeral rites, ghosts, Hamlet, hautology, literature, M. R. James, Marxism, North American New Right, nostalgia, originals, Spectres of Marx, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King, The Shining, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

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Plato’s Apology, Part 1

Greg Johnson

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Part 1 of 2

Author’s Note:

The following text is based on a transcript by V. S. of a lecture on Plato’s Apology of Socrates. As usual, I have edited his transcript to remove excessive wordiness. I have also added a few paragraphs and points based on my notes. Read more …