Tag Archives: modernism

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, Bauhaus School, Frank Lloyd Wright, North American New Right, originals, Roy J. Street, Tom Wolfe, Victor Hugo | Comments closed

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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, Brion Gysin, David Bowie, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, literature, magic, Matthew Levi Stevens, modern art, North American New Right, originals, The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs, the occult, Traditionalism, William S. Burroughs | Comments closed

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T. S. Eliot, Part 2

Jonathan Bowden

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 | Comments closed

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T. S. Eliot, Part 1

Jonathan Bowden

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.

Ezra Pound

Jonathan Bowden

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 | Comments closed

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Wyndham Lewis

Kerry Bolton

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
Ezra Pound

Jonathan Bowden

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 | Comments closed

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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, Nazi art, North American New Right, political correctness, Prince Charles, reprints | Comments closed

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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, city planning, fascism, Modernism and Fascism, National Socialism, North American New Right, reprints, Roger Griffin | Comments closed

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Jonathan Bowden on Wyndham Lewis

Jonathan Bowden

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 …