Comments on: The Art of Jonathan Bowden http://www.toqonline.com/2009/11/the-art-of-jonathan-bowden/ Western Perspectives on Man, Culture, and Politics Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:10:39 -0400 hourly 1 By: Marge O'Brien http://www.toqonline.com/2009/11/the-art-of-jonathan-bowden/comment-page-1/#comment-4462 Marge O'Brien Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:24:38 +0000 http://www.toqonline.com/?p=6527#comment-4462 Though neither Bowden's art nor his writing in the articles published here appeal to me, I appreciated being introduced to Hans-Jurgen Syberberg; a little searching turned up, among other things, an interesting-sounding DVD - "The Ister," featuring Syberberg and Heidegger ( http://www.amazon.com/Ister-Daniel-Ross/dp/B002EOVWTS) and a somewhat related quote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Jürgen_Syberberg Ian Buruma, in the New York Review of Books, quotes several of Syberberg's controversial statements. Syberberg described modern German art as "filthy and sick... in praise of cowardice and treason, of criminals, whores, of hate, ugliness, of lies and crimes and all that is unnatural." He also wrote that: "The Jewish interpretation of the world followed upon the Christian, just as the Christian one followed Roman and Greek culture. So now Jewish analyses, images, definitions of art, science, sociology, literature, politics, the information media, dominate. Marx and Freud are the pillars that mark the road from East to West. Neither are imaginable without Jewishness. Their systems are defined by it. The axis USA-Israel guarantees the parameters. That is the way people think now, the way they feel, act and disseminate information. We live in the Jewish epoch of European cultural history. And we can only wait, at the pinnacle of our technological power, for our last judgment at the edge of the apocalypse…. So that's the way it looks, for all of us, suffocating in unprecedented technological prosperity, without spirit, without meaning... Those who want to have good careers go along with Jews and leftists [and] the race of superior men [Rasse der Herrenmenschen] has been seduced, the land of poets and thinkers has become the fat booty of corruption, of business, of lazy comfort." ___________________ MOB Though neither Bowden’s art nor his writing in the articles published here appeal to me, I appreciated being introduced to Hans-Jurgen Syberberg; a little searching turned up, among other things, an interesting-sounding DVD – “The Ister,” featuring Syberberg and Heidegger ( http://www.amazon.com/Ister-Daniel-Ross/dp/B002EOVWTS)

and a somewhat related quote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Jürgen_Syberberg

Ian Buruma, in the New York Review of Books, quotes several of Syberberg’s controversial statements. Syberberg described modern German art as “filthy and sick… in praise of cowardice and treason, of criminals, whores, of hate, ugliness, of lies and crimes and all that is unnatural.” He also wrote that:

“The Jewish interpretation of the world followed upon the Christian, just as the Christian one followed Roman and Greek culture. So now Jewish analyses, images, definitions of art, science, sociology, literature, politics, the information media, dominate. Marx and Freud are the pillars that mark the road from East to West. Neither are imaginable without Jewishness. Their systems are defined by it. The axis USA-Israel guarantees the parameters. That is the way people think now, the way they feel, act and disseminate information. We live in the Jewish epoch of European cultural history. And we can only wait, at the pinnacle of our technological power, for our last judgment at the edge of the apocalypse…. So that’s the way it looks, for all of us, suffocating in unprecedented technological prosperity, without spirit, without meaning… Those who want to have good careers go along with Jews and leftists [and] the race of superior men [Rasse der Herrenmenschen] has been seduced, the land of poets and thinkers has become the fat booty of corruption, of business, of lazy comfort.”
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MOB

]]> By: Louis Andrews http://www.toqonline.com/2009/11/the-art-of-jonathan-bowden/comment-page-1/#comment-4461 Louis Andrews Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:59:04 +0000 http://www.toqonline.com/?p=6527#comment-4461 Alex K wrote: "When his turn came to speak, his vast oral cavity exploded with a hurricane of decibels; the thermonuclear shockwave of intellectual verbiage swept over the heads of the congregated audience, stunning it into paralyzed silence. Bowden turned his head left, then right, then left, then right, his eyes closed, gesticulating, baring his teeth, roaring like a lion. Even if there was anyone present who did not understand his erudite diction, everyone knew where it was coming from: a place of Nietzschean ferocity, Doric hardness, primal purpose, pagan pride, ancient darkness, and unquenchable fury." That is a perfect description of Bowden in action. Your life will not be complete until you have heard this force of nature speak in person. Alex K wrote: “When his turn came to speak, his vast oral cavity exploded with a hurricane of decibels; the thermonuclear shockwave of intellectual verbiage swept over the heads of the congregated audience, stunning it into paralyzed silence. Bowden turned his head left, then right, then left, then right, his eyes closed, gesticulating, baring his teeth, roaring like a lion. Even if there was anyone present who did not understand his erudite diction, everyone knew where it was coming from: a place of Nietzschean ferocity, Doric hardness, primal purpose, pagan pride, ancient darkness, and unquenchable fury.”

That is a perfect description of Bowden in action. Your life will not be complete until you have heard this force of nature speak in person.

]]> By: The Admiral http://www.toqonline.com/2009/11/the-art-of-jonathan-bowden/comment-page-1/#comment-4459 The Admiral Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:25:17 +0000 http://www.toqonline.com/?p=6527#comment-4459 He's like the Soren Renner of England. ;) He’s like the Soren Renner of England. ;)

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