Tag Archives: Georges Sorel

Avant-Garde Fascism

Ted Sallis

Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909–1939
Mark Antliff
Durham and London: Duke University Press,  2007
Mark Antliff, a professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University, has put together a useful analysis of the cultural-aesthetic memes utilized by French fascists of 1909-1939 to promote their visions of national [...]

Published: October 31, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

The TOQ Secession Essay Contest Winner:
“Toward the White Republic”

Michael O'Meara

Editor’s Note: It is a great pleasure to announce the winning essay of the first annual TOQ Essay Contest: Michael O’Meara’s “Toward the White Republic.” We had 20 entries. One was subsequently withdrawn. Of the 19 remaining, I judged this the best, but there was close competition, and in the end I hope to publish [...]

Published: August 1, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , , | 30 Comments

Filippo Marinetti

Kerry Bolton

Filippo Marinetti is unlike most of the post-nineteenth Century cultural avant-garde who were rebelling against the spirit of several centuries of liberalism, rationalism, the rise of the democratic mass, industrialism, and the rule of the moneyed elite. His revolt against the leveling impact of the democratic era was not to hark back to certain perceived [...]

Published: July 28, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

The Myth of Our Regeneration

Michael O'Meara

Editor’s Note: This is the text of a talk delivered on June 19, 2009 at a TOQ Editor’s Dinner in San Francisco.
“J’attends les Cosaques et le Saint-Esprit.”
-Leon Bloy
My talk this evening is about what might be called “the power of myth.”
I refer here not to the Bill Moyers’ program of the same name, but rather [...]

Published: June 20, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , , , , | 10 Comments
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