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Here’s a sign that the feces-slinging partisan playpen that is the Internet is getting to you: I caught myself feeling decidedly strange as I made plans to write this tandem review of an essay collection by Andy Nowicki—a devout Catholic—and Valencia, an autobiographical novel by James Nulick, whose protagonist catches AIDS during a gay-sex-and-crack binge.

“Who’s going to want to read about both of them?” said my stupid brain. Read more …

Published: November 4, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ann Sterzinger, book reviews, death, hedonism, james Nulick, literature, North American New Right, Notes Before Death, originals, pessimism, Valencia | Comments closed

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“I get my kicks above the waistline, Sunshine”
Michel Houellebecq’s Sexual Anti-Utopia

James J. O'Meara

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Michel Houellebecq
The Elementary Particles
Translated from the French by Frank Wynne
New York: Knopf, 2000

“I get my kicks above the waistline, Sunshine.”[1]

“The universe is nothing but a furtive arrangement of elementary particles. . . . And human actions are as free and as stripped of meaning as the unfettered movements of the elementary particles.” — Michel Houellebecq, Read more …

Published: June 11, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, cloning, cultural renewal, decadence, Doktor Faustus, dystopia, Hermann Hesse, Islam, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, literature, Michel Houellebecq, North American New Right, originals, postmodernism, The Elementary Particles, The Glass Bead Game, Thomas Mann, Traditionalism, utopia | Comments closed

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D. H. Lawrence’s Critique of Reductionism

Derek Hawthorne

Tobias Stranover, “Peacock, Peahen and Poultry in a Landscape,” 1684

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In his essay “Why the Novel Matters,” Lawrence writes, “To the scientist, I am dead. He puts under the microscope a dead bit of me, and calls it me. He takes me to pieces, and says first one piece, and then another piece, is me.”[1] This is unfortunate because, as Lawrence never tires of repeating, “life, and life only, is the clue to the universe.”[2]