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Alex Kurtagić

Alex Kurtagic (follow him on twitter) is a publisher, cultural commentator, novelist, musician, and artist. He is the author of the dystopian novel, Mister (published by Iron Sky Publishing, 2009), the founder and director of Supernal Music, and editor-in-chief of Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group.

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David Crawford’s Lights Out

Alex Kurtagić

1,621 words

David Crawford
Lights Out
Halfast Publishing, 2010

David Crawford’s Lights Out is one of a constellation of underground post-apocalyptic novels written by American authors in recent years, catering to the prepper / survivalist subculture. These novels would be considered by mainstream readers to be on the political Right, although in reality their authors are libertarians or classical liberals who describe themselves as “conservative.” Read more …

Published: February 11, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, book reviews, North American New Right, post-collapse scenarios, reprints, white survivalism | 4 Responses

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Despensando el liberalismo:
La Cuarta Teoría Política de Alexander Dugin

Alex Kurtagić

2,091 words

English original here

Alexander Dugin
The Fourth Political Theory
London: Arktos, 2012

Arktos recientemente publicó lo que podemos espera sea una de las primeras de muchas más traducciones al inglés de los trabajos de Alexander Dugin. Read more …

Published: October 2, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, Alexander Dugin, book reviews, Communism, fascism, in Spanish, in translation, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy, The Fourth Political Theory | Leave a comment

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Forgetting Max Horkheimer:
February 14, 1895 to July 7, 1973

Alex Kurtagić

1,310 words

Max Horkheimer died 41 years ago today. Director of the Institute of Social Research from 1930 till 1953, Horkheimer was a leader of the Frankfurt School, a group that became identified with Critical Theory, a wholly speculative concoction blending Marxism and Freudian psychoanalysis.

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Κύριοι του Σύμπαντος

Alex Kurtagić

4,221 words

Μετάφραση για το Ιδεάπολις Α. Γ.

English original here

(Ομιλία του Alex Kurtagic στο Ινστιτούτο Εθνικής Πολιτικής στην Ουάσινγκτον στις 10 Σεπτεμβρίου του 2011) Read more …

Published: September 6, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, fashion, in Greek, in translation, North American New Right, political psychology, reprints, rhetoric, social identity theory, style, subcultures, white activism, white nationalism, white racial consciousness | Leave a comment

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The Gentleman from Providence

Alex Kurtagić

2,808 words

S. T. Joshi
I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft
2 vols.
New York: Hippocampus Press, 2012

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Black Metal:
Revolución Conservadora en la cultura popular moderna

Alex Kurtagić

6,454 words

Traducido por S. Vera

English original here

Desde el punto de vista del nacionalismo racial, el género musical conocido como Black Metal es uno de los fenómenos más significativos en la cultura popular moderna de las últimas dos décadas. Read more …

Published: September 2, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, anti-modernism, articles, Black Metal, Heavy Metal, in Spanish, in translation, music reviews, National Socialism, neo-paganism, North American New Right, originals, popular music, the Conservative Revolution, white racial consciousness, white subcultures | Comments closed

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El Gran Borrón

Alex Kurtagić

4,611 words

Traducido por S. Vera

English original here

Rehaciendo la identidad blanca

Published: September 2, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, in Spanish, in translation, North American New Right, originals, white dispossession, white identity | Leave a comment

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You Can Take the Man Out of Texas, but You Cannot Take Texas Out of the Man

Alex Kurtagić

2,339 words

Mark Finn
Blood and Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard
Austin, Texas: Monkeybrain Books, 2006

When Mark Finn read the initial biography of Robert Ervin Howard (Dark Valley Destiny: The Life of Robert E. Howard by L. Sprague de Camp), he was enraged by what he found. Thus, his Blood and Thunder, published some 30 years after de Camp’s, was meant as a corrective: Read more …

Published: September 2, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, book reviews, Conan the Barbarian, fantasy literature, heroism, Jonathan Bowden, manliness, North American New Right, originals, Robert E. Howard, Texas | 1 Response

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Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko; or, the Royal Slave

Alex Kurtagić

Portrait of Aphra Behn by Peter Lely, circa 1670

2,677 words

Aphra Behn
Oroonoko; or, the Royal Slave
London: William Canning, 1688; Penguin Classics, 2003

Aphra Behn (1640–1689) was a prolific dramatist, spy, and Tory propagandist of the English Restoration. After spying for Charles II in Antwerp during the Dutch wars, she turned to literature and became a successful author—indeed, the first female literary author to earn her living entirely from her quill. Read more …

Published: June 24, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, book reviews, colonialism, feminism, North American New Right, racism, reprints, slavery, warrior ethics | 4 Responses

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Jonathan Bowden: Man or Beast?

Alex Kurtagić

time: 42:46

Published: April 16, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, Jonathan Bowden, North American New Right, videos | Comments closed

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Equality:
A Justification of Privilege, Oppression, & Inhumanity

Alex Kurtagić

The Equalizer

1,539 words

It is a cliché in our Left-leaning liberal society that we must all remain vigilant against any ideology that rejects equality as a morally desirable aim, because, should that ideology achieve political power, we would soon find ourselves back in the slippery slope that begins with a justification of racism and ends with the gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Published: February 26, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, egalitarianism, equality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | 26 Responses

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Igualdad:
el camino a una vida carente de significado

Alex Kurtagić

1,107 words

English original here

En un libro que escribió hace unos veinte años, Jonathan Bowden mencionó que el significado se origina en la diferencia, o desigualdad. Read more …

Published: February 24, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, egalitarianism, in Spanish, in translation, inequality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, values | 1 Response

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Equality:
The Way to a Meaningless Life

Alex Kurtagić

1,017 words

Spanish translation here

In a book he wrote some twenty years ago, Jonathan Bowden said that meaning originates in difference, or inequality. Read more …

Published: February 21, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, egalitarianism, inequality, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, values | 27 Responses

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Some Sort of Nietzschean

Alex Kurtagić

Wyndham Lewis in 1917

1,920 words

Paul O’Keefe
Some Sort of Genius: A Life of Wyndham Lewis
London: Pimlico, 2000

In his acknowledgment pages Paul O’Keefe states that it took him a decade—not including the years of research already donated to him by another writer—to complete his biography of Wyndham Lewis, a project he began in 1990 while he was president of the Wyndham Lewis Society. Read more …

Published: February 6, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, book reviews, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jonathan Bowden, literature, modernism, North American New Right, originals, painting, Wyndham Lewis | 3 Responses

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Les femmes sont nos alliées

Alex Kurtagić

Athena, by Philippe-Laurent Roland, 1806, Louvre

1,813 words

Une plainte fréquente parmi les activistes politiques blancs traditionalistes est la sous-représentation de l’engagement féminin dans le militantisme pro-blanc. Un facteur favorisant l’intérêt masculin dans cet effort politique est certainement la crainte qu’un monde dirigé par les traditionalistes radicaux blancs refuserait aux femmes l’autonomie économique, les reléguant dans les rôles traditionnels de mère et de femme au foyer. Et dans une large mesure, on peut pardonner cette méfiance de la part des femmes, car non seulement cette caricature est perpétuée par la culture de l’establishment, mais dans la littérature associée au Nationalisme Blanc on voit peu de choses qui ne confirment pas la caricature : Read more …

Published: January 27, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, feminism, in French, in translation, North American New Right, originals, the woman question, white nationalism | Leave a comment

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Black Metal:
Revolução Conservadora na Cultura Popular Moderna

Alex Kurtagić

5,371 words

English original here

Do ponto-de-vista do nacionalismo racial, o gênero musical conhecido como Black Metal é um dos fenômenos culturais populares mais significativos das últimas duas décadas. Porém, ele pouco tem sido discutido por acadêmicos e comentaristas politicamente simpáticos. Read more …

Published: January 26, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, Black Metal, conservative revolution, Heavy Metal, in Portuguese, in translation, National Socialism, neo-paganism, North American New Right, popular music, reprints, Satanism, white nationalism, white subcultures | Leave a comment

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Politicized Science vs. Scientific Politics

Alex Kurtagić

Gabriel von Max, “The Vivisectionist,” 1883, detail

2,731 words

It may seem ironic for those who are said to have “far Right views,” but perhaps one of the biggest obstacles in the struggle for the West is the far Right’s obsession with the scientific understanding of human races. It is not so much that scientific knowledge about race is irrelevant to our political purpose (which is the struggle for the West), but, rather, that this science is thought to possess a political utility it does not and will never have.

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Why All that Theory?

Alex Kurtagić

Plato and Aristotle from Raphael’s “The School of Athens”

4,336 words

There are those who wonder what the point is in discussing abstract theory while we are losing control over our society, in concrete and measurable ways, on multiple fronts, on a daily basis. For them abstract theory is just words, futile and devoid of meaning because their effect cannot be quantified, because their abundance is disproportionate to their physical effects, and because what ultimately counts for them is what transpires in empirical reality.

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Unthinking Liberalism:
Alexander Dugin’s The Fourth Political Theory

Alex Kurtagić

1,898 words

Spanish translation here

Alexander Dugin
The Fourth Political Theory
London: Arktos, 2012

Arktos recently published what we can only hope will be the first of many more English translations of Alexander Dugin’s work. Read more …

Published: September 17, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, Alexander Dugin, book reviews, Communism, fascism, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, political philosophy, The Fourth Political Theory | 27 Responses

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Avant-garde, esthétique, révolution

Alex Kurtagić

Eugène Delacroix, « La Liberté Guidant le peuple », 1839

3,357 words

English original here

J’ai critiqué à diverses occasions la tendance parmi un sous-groupe de nationalistes raciaux à s’autoriser des fantaisies révolutionnaires improbables : Read more …

Published: June 1, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged aesthetics, Alex Kurtagic, articles, in French, in translation, mainstreamers, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, revolution, rhetoric, social psychology, utopianism, vanguardism | Leave a comment

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Vanguard, Aesthetics, Revolution

Alex Kurtagić

Eugène Delacroix, "Liberty Leading the People," 1839

3,377 words

German translation here

I have on various occasions criticized the tendency among a subset of racial nationalists to indulge in improbable revolutionary fantasies, where the liberal system collapses, Read more …

Published: May 1, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged aesthetics, Alex Kurtagic, articles, mainstreamers, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, revolution, rhetoric, social psychology, utopianism, vanguardism, white nationalism | 20 Responses

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Bêtes de Norvège :
Breivik & Vikernes

Alex Kurtagić

Varg Vikernes

1,900 words

English original here

Depuis les années 1990, l’exportation norvégienne la plus connue a été son Black Metal. Read more …

Published: January 28, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Anders Behring Breivik, articles, Black Metal, Christianity, in French, in translation, neopaganism, North American New Right, Norway, originals, popular music, reprints, spree killers, terrorism, Traditionalism, Varg Vikernes, white nationalism | Leave a comment

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Bestas da Noruega:
Breivik & Vikernes

Alex Kurtagić

Varg Vikernes

1,733 words

English original here

Desde a década de 90, o produto de exportação mais conhecido da Noruega tem sido seu Black Metal. Read more …

Published: January 28, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Anders Behring Breivik, articles, Black Metal, Christianity, in Portuguese, in translation, neopaganism, North American New Right, Norway, popular music, reprints, spree killers, terrorism, Traditionalism, Varg Vikernes, white nationalism | Leave a comment

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Christmas Special
Jingle All the Way:
Reassuringly Fascistic

Alex Kurtagić

1,442 words

Jingle All the Way is a typical feel-good, family-oriented Hollywood Christmas film, loosely falling in the same category as the Home Alone film series (which producer Chris Columbus was also involved with). It is driven by a simple premise and plot, which unfolds against a scenery of prosperous suburbia and mid-Western shopping centres, all postcard beautiful among snow and a superabundance of joyous decorations. Read more …

Published: December 23, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, Christmas, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints | Leave a comment

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Maîtres de l’Univers

Alex Kurtagić

4,750 words

English original here

Note de la Rédaction :

Voici le discours d’Alex Kurtagic Durant la conférence du National Policy Institute à Washington D.C., le 10 septembre 2011.

Il y a deux ans, j’ai posé la question : « Que faudra-t-il ? » Read more …

Published: October 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, fashion, in French, in translation, North American New Right, originals, political psychology, rhetoric, social identity theory, style, subcultures, white activism, white nationalism, white racial consciousness | Leave a comment

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Masters of the Universe

Alex Kurtagić

4,401 words

Translations: French, Greek

Editor’s Note:

This is Alex Kurtagic’s speech from the National Policy Institute conference in Washington, D.C., September 10, 2011.

Two years ago I asked the question, “What will it take?” Read more …

Published: September 23, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, fashion, North American New Right, political psychology, reprints, rhetoric, social identity theory, style, subcultures, white activism, white nationalism, white racial consciousness | 43 Responses

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Beasts of Norway:
Breivik & Vikernes

Alex Kurtagić

Varg Vikernes

1,709 words

Portuguese translation here

Since the 1990s, Norway’s best-known export has been its Black Metal. Read more …

Published: July 29, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Anders Behring Breivik, articles, Black Metal, Christianity, neo-paganism, North American New Right, Norway, popular music, reprints, spree killers, terrorism, Traditionalism, Varg Vikernes, white nationalism | 7 Responses

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Interview with Ward Kendall

Alex Kurtagić

3,445 words

Counter-Currents recently published a new edition of Ward Kendall’s 2001 novel, Hold Back This Day. As an enthusiast of dystopian and apocalyptic fiction, I had for years sought to lay my hands on a copy, only it was but intermittently available on Amazon, and even then at absurdly high prices. Read more …

Published: June 8, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, diversity, Hold Back This Day, interviews, literature, North American New Right, reprints, science fiction, Ward Kendall, white nationalism | 12 Responses

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Black Metal:
Conservative Revolution in Modern Popular Culture

Alex Kurtagić

Franz von Stuck, “War,” c. 1894

5,603 words

Translations: Portuguese, Spanish

From the viewpoint of racial nationalism, the musical genre known as Black Metal is one of the most significant popular culture phenomena of the last two decades. Yet it has been seldom discussed by politically congenial scholars and commentators. Read more …