Author Archives: Alex Kurtagic

Alex Kurtagic

Alex Kurtagic was born in 1970. He is the author of Mister (Iron Sky Publishing, 2009) and the founder and director of Supernal Music.

The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912

The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912
Roald Amundsen
London: Hurst & Company, 2001
(First Published in 1912 by John Murray)
Having reviewed Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s account of Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition, and having over the Yuletide read Scott’s diaries from the latter, I deemed it opportune to read Roald Amundsen’s [...]

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The Art of Jonathan Bowden, Vol. 2: 1968-1974

The Art of Jonathan Bowden, vol. 2: 1968-1974
Jonathan Bowden
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2009
Last time I saw Jonathan Bowden, I asked him how he was. His answer, delivered with bared teeth and so typical of him, elicited peals of laughter from Bowden himself, “I am always superb and getting stronger!” Bowden, you see, loves an [...]

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Tired of Low Quality?

Are you not tired of paying top dollar for an item and seeing it fall apart after a few years? I certainly am. My philosophy as a (reluctant) consumer has always been to spend a little more and purchase a high-quality item, rather than pinch my pennies and purchase whatever will do the job, and [...]

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The Jewish War on Christmas

“Multiculturalism Malfunctioning is Israel”
The Occidental Observer Blog, December 16, 2009
It would appear that multiculturalism in Israel could well use a course of anabolic steroids, as the Israelis appear not to be feeling its strength.
Jewish lobby wages war on Christmas trees
Lobby for Jewish values passes out fliers against hotels, restaurants putting up Christmas trees, other Christian [...]

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Shackleton’s Forgotten Men

Shackleton’s Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic
Lennard Bickel
London: Pimlico, 2001
The heroic age of Antarctic exploration ended with Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition of 1914-1916. And this, no doubt because of the relatively recent film starring Kenneth Branagh, is nowadays probably the best known of the many incredible adventures experienced by the early Antarctic [...]

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The Art of Jonathan Bowden

The Art of Jonathan Bowden, volume 1, 1980 – 2007
Jonathan Bowden
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2007
The first time my wife saw Jonathan Bowden’s art she thought he was insane. I had some days before attended a meeting where he spoke about the German filmmaker Hans-Jürgen Syberberg and his epic, 7-hour production Hitler: A Film from [...]

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2012 / 2009

Anybody who has read my novel Mister will have easily guessed that I enjoy apocalyptic scenarios, and there is no doubt I have been influenced, partly, by 1970s disaster films. It will therefore come as no surprise that, although I very seldom have a desire to go to the cinema, some of few the times [...]

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The Romantic Ethic & the Spirit of Modern Consumerism

The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism
by Colin Campbell
Alcuin Academics, 2005
As the title immediately suggests, this is meant to be a companion volume to Max Weber’s classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. In Colin Campbell’s opinion, the latter only told half of the story (that of production), and left unanswered [...]

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Straw Dogs

I have suggested in previous articles, as well as in my dystopian novel, Mister, that the longer we allow our enemies to carry on as they are, the harsher the measures that will be required to extricate ourselves from the present mess.
This is not a profound insight; it is something every schoolboy learns in the [...]

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BBC’s Question Time: A Shameful Spectacle

From The Occidental Observer, October 24, 2009
After much controversy, discussion, soul-searching, explanation, and legal posturing, BNP Chairman and Member of European Parliament Nick Griffin was allowed to participate in the BBC’s premier political television program, Question Time. The format of this show consists of a panel of politicians and public figures, sitting at a table, [...]

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