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On the Counter-Currents Radio fundraiser livestream for July 26th, 2020, Greg Johnson is joined by special guest Morgoth to discuss culture, nostalgia, individualism, music, television, and the End of History. Read more …

Published: July 28, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged electronic music, Frankfurt School, Greg Johnson, Hannibal Lecter, hautology, interviews, Joy Division, Laibach, Mark Fisher, Morgoth, New Order, nostalgia, podcasts, progressive rock, television, Thomas Harris | 2 Responses

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Architektura a morálka: Zkáza Grenfell Tower

Christopher Pankhurst

1,397 slov

English original here

Fakta sice jsou důležitá, mnohem důležitější ale bývají příběhy. Fakta – izolovaná data – lze snadnou zapomenout, ale příběhy se shlukují do infrastruktury našeho světonázoru. Jejich prostřednictvím si utváříme tento světonázor, který následně ovlivňuje, jaké příběhy vyslechneme v jakési nekonečné smyčce zpětné vazby – a právě proto má kontrola nad narativem tak nenahraditelný význam. Read more …

Published: March 26, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, in Czech, North American New Right, reprints | Leave a comment

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Paul Christensen’s Greybeard

Christopher Pankhurst

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Paul Christensen
Greybeard
Createspace, 2017

Greybeard is the new novel by Paul Christensen, author of The Hungry Wolves of Van Diemen’s Land, The Heretic Emperor and Reveries of the Dreamking (the first two of which are reviewed here at Counter-Currents). Read more …

Published: January 22, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, North American New Right, originals, Paul Christensen | 2 Responses

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Charles Manson:
From Scapegoat to Messiah

Christopher Pankhurst

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Charles Manson was a scapegoat for the sixties counter-culture and he became a false Messiah for the seventies, eighties, nineties, and naughties counter-cultures. His real meaning can only be discerned by understanding these two equally imaginary poles of social function that he was compelled to occupy during his decades of imprisonment. The fact that Manson himself was keenly aware of this process of projection and that he actively sought to manipulate it does not attest to evidence of demonic powers but neither does it attest to the machinations of a victimized magus. Read more …

Published: November 29, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Charles Manson, North American New Right, originals | 2 Responses

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Review of Venus & Her Thugs

Christopher Pankhurst

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J. A. Nicholl
Venus & Her Thugs: Fifteen Weird Tales
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2017

What is a weird tale? To keep the question manageable, it makes sense to think only about modern, literary tales. In that respect, then, the weird tale is a scion of the ghost story family. The modern, literary ghost story is widely acknowledged to have been created by M. R. James. James’ stories followed a formula of a cerebral, monastic academic discovering some sort of occult object, and subsequently being assaulted by a supernatural emanation connected to that object. Read more …

Published: November 21, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, J. A. Nicholl, North American New Right, originals, weird fiction | 2 Responses

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War for the Planet of the Apes

Christopher Pankhurst

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War for the Planet of the Apes is the third film of the rebooted series and one of the best. With its austere visual palette and dark tonal mood it could so easily have been a flawless masterpiece. Unfortunately, a couple of trivial missteps get in the way of its overall quality and undermine the film’s otherwise brutal solemnity.

War begins 15 years after the simian flu outbreak that wiped out much of the human species. Read more …

Published: July 31, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged movie reviews, North American New Right, originals | 4 Responses

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True Faith Exhibition

Christopher Pankhurst

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One of the exhibits in Manchester Art Gallery’s True Faith exhibition is a notebook in which Joy Division’s manager, Rob Gretton, used to write thoughts and reminders concerning the band’s schedule and ethos. Presented in a glass case, it is open at a page where Gretton muses on certain questions asked of him by the journalist Paul Morley. Read more …

Published: July 18, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art, Joy Division, New Order, North American New Right, originals | 4 Responses

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The Metaphysics of Death

Christopher Pankhurst

4,440 words

“Only the dead can know what it means to be dead.”—Ananda Coomaraswamy[1]

Philip Larkin’s poem “Aubade” articulates his fear of death in chilling terms. It describes a man who hates his job and gets drunk every night. Then, before dawn, he wakes, and with the gathering light, he fixates on the certainty of his own death and what it will mean for him. Larkin is clear that it means complete cessation of the self, that there is no possibility of an afterlife, and that this absence of the self is the most terrifying thing in the world. Read more …

Published: June 23, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ananda Coomaraswamy, articles, artificial intelligence, death, genetics, Hubert Dreyfus, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Traditionalism | 10 Responses

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Architecture & Morality:
The Fall of Grenfell Tower

Christopher Pankhurst

1,661 words

Czech version here

Facts are important, but stories are more important. Facts are isolated data that can easily be forgotten, but stories coalesce to form the infrastructure of our worldview. The stories that we learn inform our worldview and our worldview filters the stories that we hear in an ongoing feedback loop. This is why it’s so important to control the narrative.

When Grenfell Tower went up in flames on the morning of 14th June, the narrative practically wrote itself. Read more …

Published: June 22, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, North American New Right, originals | 9 Responses

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The Real Victims in Manchester – The White Working Class

Christopher Pankhurst

Manchester residents observing a moment of silence on Thursday.

1,180 words

What does it mean to be a Mancunian? Perhaps it’s as simple as being a resident or former resident of Manchester. Or perhaps it’s characterized by a particular type of identity, one that is often embodied in the numerous musicians who have come from there in recent decades. Read more …

Published: May 25, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Karl Marx, mass immigration, Morrissey, North American New Right, originals, terrorism, United Kingdom | 4 Responses

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The Westminster Attack Did Not Take Place

Christopher Pankhurst

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When Jean Baudrillard published his classic text, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, in 1995, it still seemed like a relatively novel idea. Common-sense notions of war such as friend and enemy were still current and reportage was confined to large media corporations. Read more …

Published: April 6, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged alternative media, conspiracy theories, North American New Right, originals, technology | 6 Responses

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The Co-option of the Left:
Its Fatal Misunderstanding of Marx

Christopher Pankhurst

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It’s obvious to anyone with eyes to see that the contemporary Left is spectacularly alienating its own natural constituency with its increasingly unfocused and incoherent forms of protest. Certainly, they are vocal in denouncing Trump as a fascist, and Brexit as some sort of ur-nationalism, Read more …

Published: February 13, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged capital, Frankfurt School, identity politics, Karl Marx, North American New Right, originals, the left | 11 Responses

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Between Pragmatism & the Transcendent:
A Review of Brett Stevens’ Nihilism

Christopher Pankhurst

1,956 words

Brett Stevens
Nihilism: A Philosophy Based in Nothingness and Eternity
Colac, Australia: Manticore Press, 2016

The title of Brett Stevens’ new book, Nihilism: A Philosophy Based in Nothingness and Eternity, inclined me to think that this work would be in the same vein as other works of pessimist philosophy such as Thomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, or Eugene Thacker’s Horror of Philosophy trilogy. Read more …

Published: January 5, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, philosophy | 5 Responses

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Guillaume Faye’s Archeofuturism 2.0

Christopher Pankhurst

1,381 words

Guillaume Faye
Archeofuturism 2.0
London: Arktos, 2016

Guillaume Faye’s new novel begins in the last few days before the outbreak of the First World War. A fashionable and rather aristocratic group of young people (nowadays we would call them “privileged”) consult a clairvoyant who gives an astonishingly accurate series of descriptions of increasingly distant futures. Read more …

Published: November 30, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Archeofuturism, book reviews, collapse scenarios, Guillaume Faye, North American New Right, originals, science fiction | 1 Response

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Albion’s Hidden Numina
Under the Skin

Christopher Pankhurst

2,434 words

The 2000 novel Under the Skin by Michel Faber tells the story of a female alien called Isserley. We meet her living on a remote Scottish farm from where she takes regular road trips looking for single men. The purpose of these trips transpires to be predatory; she is hunting humans to farm for her fellow alien beings.

Michel Faber has an interesting background. According to Wikipedia: Read more …

Published: September 27, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Albion's Hidden Numina, articles, book reviews, movie reviews, the numinous | Leave a comment

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Albion’s Hidden Numina
Joy Division

Christopher Pankhurst

3,156 words

Joy Division left us with the most relentlessly depressing body of songs since Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder. In some ways, though, this singularity of approach, this lack of light touches to add color to the palate, is responsible for making them enduringly fascinating. Read more …

Published: August 15, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Albion's Hidden Numina, articles, Joy Division, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, popular music, post-punk, the numinous, the occult | 15 Responses

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Caesar Without Gods:
Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy

Christopher Pankhurst

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Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises) begins with the evocation of fear which becomes the motivational impulse for Bruce Wayne’s story. As a child he accidentally falls down a disused well, and, whilst he lies trapped and injured, he is terrified by a flock of bats that appear like a chthonic force of nature from the bowels of the earth. Read more …

Published: July 19, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Batman, C. G. Jung, caesarism, Christopher Nolan, Dark Knight Trilogy, decadence, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, superheroes, the League of Shadows | 5 Responses

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A New Approach to Shakespeare Authorship

Christopher Pankhurst

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Samuel Crowell
William Fortyhands: Disintegration and Reinvention of the Shakespeare Canon
Charleston, W.V.: Nine-Banded Books, 2016

The idea that the plays of William Shakespeare were written by someone other than William Shakespeare is a well-established motif in literary conspiracy theories. Starting in the mid-19th century, numerous and varied writers have gone into great detail to prove that the Shakespeare corpus was actually written by Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, or Edward de Vere, amongst others. Read more …

Published: June 30, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, North American New Right, originals, William Shakespeare | 4 Responses

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Jo Coxová a dvojí metr na politické násilí

Christopher Pankhurst

604 words

English original here

Ohledně vraždy poslankyně Jo Coxové zjevně panuje politický konsenzus. Zasedání obou komor parlamentu byla odvolána, aby všichni zástupci lidu mohli náležitě projevit svou soustrast. Mimoto už všechny ostatní velké politické strany oznámily, že se v doplňovacích volbách nebudou ucházet o její uprázdněné křeslo. Read more …

Published: June 21, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, in Czech, in translation, Irish Republican Army, Jeremy Corbyn, Jo Cox, Labour Party, North American New Right, reprints, terrorism | Leave a comment

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Jo Cox & the Politics of Assassination

Christopher Pankhurst

794 words

Czech translation here

There seems to be a political consensus surrounding the murder of Jo Cox MP. The House of Commons and the House of Lords are to be recalled so that everyone will be able to pay tribute to her. Additionally, the other main political parties have announced that they will not be contesting the resulting by election that will take place as a result of her death. Read more …

Published: June 20, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Irish Republican Army, Jeremy Corbyn, Jo Cox, Labour Party, North American New Right, originals, terrorism | 6 Responses

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Francis Bacon:
The Dark Theology of Meat

Christopher Pankhurst

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Francis Bacon, 1909–1992

Francis Bacon was an extraordinary and extreme artist and one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century. He was also a Right-wing elitist and individualist who approached the problem of creating art in the twentieth century with an honesty and intensity that have not really been matched. Generally speaking, it is probably true to say that most of the Right dismiss Bacon along with other contemporary artists mainly because of his unique treatment of the human form. But in my view his art enunciates a violent assault on the complacency of conventional thinking and perception that should be seen as deeply consonant with the project of the Alt Right. Read more …

Published: June 9, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art criticism, articles, exhibition reviews, Francis Bacon, modern art, nihilism, North American New Right, originals | 1 Response

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John Everett Millais’ Isabella

Christopher Pankhurst

John Everett Millais, Self-Portrait

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If you think of the Pre-Raphaelites you will probably be put in mind of flame-haired women in medieval dress or perhaps the depiction of a scene from a biblical or mythological story. The aesthetic appeal of such paintings seems to derive from a pre-modernist craving for something formally beautiful in its own right, without any sense of remove or cynicism. And if you consider that the tail end of the Pre-Raphaelite movement preceded the emergence of Dada by only a few years then it really does seem as though the Brotherhood marked a final statement in the history of Western art. Read more …

Published: May 20, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged art criticism, articles, Beowulf, Charles Dickens, John Keats, North American New Right, originals, painting, poetry, the Pre-Raphaelites | 2 Responses

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Spengler:
The Numinous Genesis of Culture

Christopher Pankhurst

6,156 words

Oswald Spengler’s radical contribution to the philosophy of history was to observe that different Cultures and Civilizations are discrete life forms and that they all have a certain life-expectancy. The linear progression of history, from the Stone Age to the prevailing Western liberalism, is a myth. There is no single line of history running through all of humanity. Instead, Cultures are born, they grow to maturity, they age, and they die. Read more …

Published: March 29, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Aleister Crowley, articles, cultural renewal, Current 93, decadence, Francis Parker Yockey, Giacinto Scelsi, modern art, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, religion, the numinous, Theodor Adorno, Willis Carto | 3 Responses

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Brussels:
The Identitarian Response

Christopher Pankhurst

Brussels today: Fighting terrorism with moral signalling, grandiose self-abasement, and wishful thinking

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After the attacks on Charlie Hebdo last year I wrote about the puerile immaturity of the response in some quarters. Later in the year, after the even more deadly attacks in Paris, I wrote about the empty sentimentality of the response in some quarters. These two responses are in fact facets of the same mindset; a bipolar condition that simultaneously laughs and cries at our collective suicide whilst refusing to admit that anything is fundamentally wrong. It is an adolescent sensibility that combines impotent cynicism with ostentatious mawkishness.

We are at Home Here

Christopher Pankhurst

3,475 words

Why did I agree to become involved? As I look back now I can see no clear decision or conscious choice, just a hapless falling into circumstance. If I had refused to entertain the stupid idea from the beginning would that have absolved me from the knowledge that was to come to me? Or was I already destined to find it no matter what I willed or thought? Read more …

Published: February 9, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged fiction, North American New Right, originals, weird fiction | 1 Response

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Bowie’s Blackstar

Christopher Pankhurst

1,488 words

David Bowie
Blackstar
Columbia, 2016

Blackstar will inevitably serve as Bowie’s last will and testament whether he meant it to or not. Certainly the writing of much of the material would have preceded his awareness of his terminal illness and his confrontation with imminent death. Read more …

Published: January 15, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged David Bowie, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, popular music | 10 Responses

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Tapiola:
Sibelius et le Dieu des Bois

Christopher Pankhurst

Jean Sibelius, 1865–1957

1,437 words

English original here

Tapiola est la dernière œuvre majeure composée par Jean Sibelius. Elle fut commandée par le chef d’orchestre de New York, Walter Damrosch, au début de 1926, et fut jouée pour la première fois le lendemain de Noël de la même année. Damrosch avait demandé un poème symphonique, le choix du sujet étant laissé au compositeur. Pour trouver l’inspiration, Sibelius se tourna, comme il le fit si souvent, vers le Kalevala, le recueil de folklore finnois qui transparaît si souvent dans son œuvre. Read more …

Published: January 13, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Arvo Pärt, classical music, Finland, in French, in translation, Jean Sibelius, North American New Right, originals, paganism | Leave a comment

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Albion’s Hidden Numina
Folk Horror Revival

Christopher Pankhurst

2,512 words

Katherine Beem and Andy Paciorek, eds.
Folk Horror Revival: Field Studies
Wyrd Harvest Press, 2015

The term “folk horror” is a relatively recent invention that can be applied to a wide range of artistic creations, not all of them belonging to the horror genre. It was popularized by the 2010 BBC TV documentary A History of Horror where the term was used to describe three horror films: Witchfinder General, The Blood on Satan’s Claw, and The Wicker Man. Read more …

Published: December 21, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Albion's Hidden Numina, book reviews, England, folk horror, hauntology, Jacques Derrida, M. R. James, Marxism, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, the numinous, the occult, The Wicker Man, weird fiction | 12 Responses

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Nach dem Pariser Massaker

Christopher Pankhurst

1,192 words

Übersetzt von Deep Roots

English original here

Am 14. November, dem Tag nach den tödlichen Anschlägen moslemischer Terroristen in Paris, stellte der Pianist Davide Martello sein großes tragbares Piano nahe dem Bataclan-Theater auf, wo 89 der Opfer ermordet wurden. Read more …

Published: November 22, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, in German, in translation, ISIS, John Lennon, North American New Right, Paris massacre, refugee crisis, religion, reprints, terrorism | Leave a comment

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After the Paris Massacre

Christopher Pankhurst

1,215 words

German translation here

On November 14th, the day after the deadly attacks in Paris by Muslim terrorists, pianist Davide Martello set up his portable grand piano close to the Bataclan Theatre where 89 of the victims were murdered. Read more …