Tag Archives: modernism

Towards a Right-Wing Critical Theory

Coomeraswamy

2,503 words

Amid the social turmoil of the late 1960s, the German Communist student Rudi Dutschke called for a “long march through the institutions” as the preferred strategy of ensuring the victory of global Marxist revolution. The success of this initiative is no more prominent in the West than in today’s academia, where Frankfurt School Read more …

Published: July 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, colonialism, conservatism, critical theory, deconstructivism, East vs. West, epistemology, Frankfurt School, globalism, imperialism, Imperium, Julius Evola, materialism, neoliberalism, North American New Right, originals, Paleoconservatism, Patrick Buchanan, philosophy, post-colonialism, postmodernism, progress., Rene Guénon, Traditionalism | 18 Responses

The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Five

Derek Hawthorne

6,056 words

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

In the last installment, I began to explore the possibility that The Birds can be understood as an “existentialist” parable. I argued that the film depicts what Heidegger calls das Ereignis (the event): a sudden and fundamental transformation of the meaning of everything. Read more …

Published: June 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, apocalypse, articles, being, complacency, das Ereignis, Dasein, Derek Hawthorne, die Lichtung, environmentalism, hubris, knowledge, Martin Heidegger, mortality, nature, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, scientism, The Birds, the uncanny | 8 Responses

Objective Fictions & Subjective Realities:
The Need for a Nationalist Postmodernism

Eumaios

5,724 words

Perhaps the best way to think about “postmodernism” from the Right is not as a problematic philosophical tradition, but as a philosophical tradition with a problem. On the one hand, “postmodernism” may be loosely defined as a philosophical turn that delegitimized traditional aesthetic and moral standards, and “deconstructed” seemingly self-evident categories like ethnicity and culture. On the other hand, it could also be defined as a school of thought which delegitimized the scientific, materialist, Read more …

Published: May 5, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged deconstruction, essays, Eumaios, G. K. Chesterton, history, identitarianism, imperialism, Irish nationalism, language, Left-Right dichotomy, nationalism, North American New Right, ontology, originals, philosophy, post-colonialism, postmodernism, teleology, Traditionalism | 30 Responses

Ecology Viewed from the Right

William de Vere

2,885 words

Whatever its contemporary associations, the natural home of political ecology lies on the Right – not the false Right associated with the Republican Party in America, of course, whose conservatism is little more than a desperate and self-destructive attachment to the liberal principles of the Enlightenment, but what Julius Evola has called the True Right: Read more …

Published: November 29, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged animal rights, articles, ecology, environmentalism, North American New Right, originals, progressivism, True Right, William de Vere | 12 Responses

Whose Notre Dame?

Robert Hampton

Notre Dame today

1,548 words

Notre Dame de Paris burned this week in a fitting metaphor for our civilization. We all watched as the spire crumbled in real time and the fire ripped through the interior, feeling helpless before the inevitable march of history.

Published: April 19, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Catholic Church, degeneration, France, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton | 24 Responses

Australian Artists of the Right, Part I
Lionel Lindsay

Lionel Lindsay

5,188 words

Background: Australianity

Nietzsche was a seminal influence on the brothers Norman and Lionel Lindsay, as he was on many other contemporary aesthetes, artists, and literati of the Right, including their fellow Australian, P. R. Stephensen, who was cured of his Communism at Oxford by the Philosopher.[1] When Stephensen returned to Australia, after a publishing venture in Britain, he did so as an avid Australian nationalist, and soon as an “Australian National Socialist,” Read more …

Published: November 14, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Australia, Australian Artists of the Right, cultural decline, Kerry Bolton, modern art, North American New Right, originals, P. R. Stephensen | 7 Responses

Masterpieces of Aryan Thought 1
Wyndham Lewis’ Paleface: The Philosophy of the Melting-Pot

Quintilian

874 words

This rather obscure 1929 book by the fascist sympathizer and Modernist novelist and painter, Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), is one of the most prescient volumes dealing with the efforts to dislodge the white race from its dominance in Europe and North America. Lewis not only anticipated much of today’s race realist thinking, he also foreshadowed Moldbug and the neo-reactionaries by outlining the origin of white racial suicide and guilt in the decadent remnants of Puritanism. Read more …

Published: December 7, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, North American New Right, originals, Quintilian, race realism, Wyndham Lewis | 7 Responses

Why I Write
Putting the Pieces Back Together

Quintilian

1,092 words

Ezra Pound: “Make it new!”

The great monologist Jean Shepherd used to remark, “In four thousand years, no one will know that you ever existed.” This statement is shocking for modern man, who — while not believing in an immortal soul — is convinced that technological advances will soon grant immortality to his physical being. Mortality might come as a shock to deracinated modern man — who is never more than a few feet away from a hand sanitizer or a “safe zone” to protect him from the challenges of bacteria or differing opinions — yet this was not always the case. Read more …

Published: December 5, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2017 fundraiser, Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, articles, Christianity, Ezra Pound, North American New Right, originals, Quintilian, T. S. Eliot, Western civilization, why we write | 4 Responses

Frank Lloyd Wright/Frank Lloyd Wrong

Roy J. Street

June 8, 1867–April 9, 1959

2,943 words

So long, Frank Lloyd Wright
I can’t believe your song is gone so soon.
I barely learned the tune
So soon, So soon.
Architects may come and
Architects may go and
Never change your point of view.
When I run dry
I stop awhile and think of you.

— Simon and Garfunkel, 1969 Read more …

Published: June 4, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged architecture, articles, Frank Lloyd Wright, North American New Right, originals, Roy J. Street, Tom Wolfe, Victor Hugo | 7 Responses

Curses, Cut-Ups, & Contraptions:
The “Disastrous Success” of William Burroughs’ Magick

James J. O'Meara

5,685 words

Matthew Levi Stevens
The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs
Oxford: Mandrake of Oxford, 2014[1]

My very first question to him, a living, breathing, Beatnik legend in the flesh was . . . “Tell me about magick?” William was not in the least surprised by my question. “Care for a drink?” he asked. Putting on the TV to watch The Man from U.N.C.L.E., he explained “Reality is not really all it’s cracked up to be, you know . . .”—Genesis P-Orridge Read more …

Published: January 21, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, David Bowie, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, literature, magic, modern art, North American New Right, originals, the occult, Traditionalism, William S. Burroughs | 7 Responses

T. S. Eliot, Part 2

3,620 words

Part 2 of 2

Editor’s Note:

The following continues the transcript by V.S. of Jonathan Bowden’s lecture to the 34th New Right Meeting in London on Saturday, August 6, 2011. In editing this transcription, I introduced punctuation and paragraph breaks. You can view the lecture at YouTube here. Read more …

Published: September 4, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, Jonathan Bowden, literature, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, poetry, religion, T. S. Eliot | 7 Responses

T. S. Eliot, Part 1

T. S. Eliot in 1903

6,146 words

Part 1 of 2

Editor’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by V.S. of Jonathan Bowden’s lecture to the 34th New Right Meeting in London on Saturday, August 6, 2011. In editing this transcription, I introduced punctuation and paragraph breaks. You can view the lecture at YouTube here. A few words are marked unintelligible. If you can understand them, please post a comment below.

Published: September 2, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christianity, Jonathan Bowden, literature, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, poetry, religion, T. S. Eliot | 4 Responses

Ezra Pound

8,814 words

Editor’s Note:

The following text is a transcript by D.B. of Jonathan Bowden’s lecture to the 33rd New Right meeting in London on June 11, 2011. In editing this transcription, I introduced punctuation and paragraph breaks. I also deleted a couple of false starts, added the first names of some figures, and included full correct versions of the poems read. You can view the lecture at YouTube here. Read more …

Published: August 25, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, C. H. Douglas, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, fascism, Jonathan Bowden, literature, North American New Right, originals, poetry, Social Credit, T. S. Eliot, World War I, World War II, Wyndham Lewis | 1 Response

Wyndham Lewis

6,724 words

English original here

Wyndham Lewis, 1882 – 1957

Corrigé 22 novembre 2011

Note du Rédacteur:

Cette version très enrichie d’un essai précédemment publié sur Wyndham Lewis est le chapitre 8 du livre de Kerry Bolton, Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence, [Artistes de la Droite : Résister à la Décadence] qui devrait être publié prochainement par Counter-Currents.

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 86
Ezra Pound

59:26 / 53 words

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This lecture by Jonathan Bowden on Ezra Pound was given at the 33rd meeting of the London New Right on June 11, 2011. The introduction is by Adrian Davies.

Published: January 24, 2014 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Adrian Davies, C. H. Douglas, Counter-Currents Radio, Ezra Pound, fascism, Jonathan Bowden, podcasts, poetry, Social Credit | 4 Responses

When Two Worlds Collide:
Prince Charles & Modern Architecture

John Tyndall

3,744 words

The current debate on architectural styles, stimulated as it has been by a number of broadsides against modern architects by no less a public figure than the Prince of Wales, Read more …

Published: April 16, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged architecture, articles, John Tyndall, National Socialism, North American New Right, political correctness, reprints | Comments closed

Fascism & the Meaning of Life

Alisdair Clarke

1,601 words

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, fascism, National Socialism, North American New Right, reprints | 17 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 32
Jonathan Bowden on Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis, “La Suerte,” 1938

53:47 / 57 words

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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. Transcript here. 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 | 3 Responses

Some Sort of Nietzschean

Alex Kurtagić

Wyndham Lewis in 1917

1,920 words

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, Wyndham Lewis | 3 Responses

Jonathan Bowden’s Last Interview, Part 1: Transcript

5,888 words

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, Greg Johnson, interviews, J. G. Ballard, Jonathan Bowden, Leni Riefenstahl, opera, originals, painting, podcasts, poetry, Robinson Jeffers, Salvador Dalí, William Blake | 3 Responses

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 Arno Breker, art criticism, articles, classicism, fascism, Jonathan Bowden, National Socialism, North American New Right, reprints, Romanticism, Salvador Dalí, surrealism, T. E. Hulme, Wyndham Lewis | 4 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 27
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

5,734 words

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.

T. S. Eliot, Part 1

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

5,352 words

Part 1 of 2

The First World War brought to a climax a cultural crisis in Western Civilization that had been developing for centuries: money overwhelmed tradition, as Spengler would have put it[1] (or, to resort to the language of 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. This has thrown societies into a state of perpetual flux, with culture reflecting that condition.

It was—and is—a problem of the primacy of Capital. 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 | 6 Responses

Wyndham Lewis

5,955 words

Wyndham Lewis, 1882 – 1957

French translation here

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.

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 | 3 Responses

Wyndham Lewis’ Childermass:
Black Metal, without the Music

1,542 words

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, the mass media, World War I, Wyndham Lewis | Leave a comment

Wyndham Lewis