With the likes of Oswald Spengler, whose Decline he translated for an Italian readership, and Jose Ortega y Gasset, Julius Evola (1898 – 1974) stands as one of the notably incisive mid-Twentieth Century critics of modernity. Like Spengler and Ortega, Evola understood himself to owe a formative debt to Friedrich Nietzsche, but more forcefully than [...]
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March 30, 2010 | Posted in General | Also tagged decadence, E. Christian Kopff, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giambattista Vico, Hermann Keyserling, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Julius Evola, nihilism, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, Thomas F. Beronneau, Traditionalism |
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 [...]
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October 31, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, Alex Kurtagic, anti-Semitism, archaeofuturism, art, avant-garde, Avant-Garde Fascism, Benito Mussolini, book reviews, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, fascism, French fascism, Furturism, Georges Sorel, Georges Valois, Iron Guard, Italian fascism, Mark Antliff, National Socialism, para-fascism, Philippe Lamour, progress, Romanian fascism, technology, Ted Sallis, urban life |
Despite the universal derision of the literary establishment, which could never comprehend its inherently noble spirit, J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings was recently voted the greatest work of fiction of the twentieth century by thousands of Waterstones’ customers. The accolade is well-deserved, for Tolkien’s masterpiece is a classic of heroic romance. [...]
Author’s Note: Myth and science are tangential to the real issue facing us, which is about politics and preservation. The following is an effort to sharpen (or maybe just to repeat) certain ideas presented in “The Sword.”
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The starting point for all discussions of white preservation must begin with the realization that we have entered an [...]
GuessedWorker has a new contribution to the myth debate. It is based on this article by Madeline Bunting which addresses the political implications of new research in neuroscience.
I don’t see how this in anyway undermines O’Meara’s position. If the reigning liberal understanding of human nature is ultimately exposed as an elaborate myth, which it most certainly is, [...]
Michael O’Meara has responded to GuessedWorker. I was going to post my two cents over there, but the brief comment grew into a blog entry.
The most persuasive case for the efficacy of myths is the debate over “scientific racism” itself: the manner in which “progressives” will twist themselves into a pretzel to avoid even the [...]
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August 20, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged ethnic genetic interests, Frank Salter, Hunter Wallace, Michael O'Meara, nerds, Prozium, rational self-interest, scientific racism, Steve Sailer, white nationalism, white racial consciousness |
My article “Toward the White Republic,” which recently won the TOQ essay contest (though under shady circumstances according to one critic), has been the subject of several internet discussions, most of which, typical of the medium, have produced more heat than light.
Nevertheless, around the margins of this discussion and in a few genuine flashes of [...]
GuessedWorker has responded to Myth and Self-Interest. In his latest entry, he reiterates his argument that mythization was not employed in the conquest, acquisition and settlement of the American West. He goes further and dismisses the examples I cited in my previous response as “post-facto romanticisations.” We seem to be crossing swords over the definition of [...]
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August 19, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged Hunter Wallace, Michael O'Meara, Prozium, white nationalism |
My ponderous English friend GuessedWorker of Majority Rights has weighed in on Michael O’Meara’s prize winning essay on White Nationalism and my response to it. He inclines toward the view that a materialist account of ethnic genetic interests will prove more persuasive than seductive mythic appeals in any future White racial rejuvenation in North America.
GuessedWorker [...]
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August 13, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged American Civil War, American South, D. W. Griffith, Darwinism, ethnic genetic interests, Frank Salter, Gone with the Wind, Hunter Wallace, Ku Klux Klan, literature, Michael O'Meara, movies, Prozium, rational self-interest, The Birth of a Nation, Uncle Tom's Cabin, white nationalism, white racial consciousness |
Michael O’Meara has a great article on secession at The Occidental Quarterly. I see that many regulars here have already found it. This is one of the few occasions in recent weeks where I find nothing to argue with in a piece. There is no quibbling around the edges of the race debate. Instead, O’Meara tackles the [...]
