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Emil Cioran
Apologie de la barbarie: Berlin – Bucharest (1932-1941)
Paris: L’Herne, 2015
Špičkové nakladatelství L’Herne v roce 2015 vydalo velice zajímavý titul: sborník článků Emila Ciorana, otištěných před válkou v rumunských novinách. Cioran, později slavný aforista, byl i v době před spojeneckým vítězstvím bystrým pozorovatelem, kousavým kulturním kritikem a politickým analytikem. (more…)
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Today is the birthday of Gabriele D’Annunzio, novelist, poet, playwright, aesthete, dandy, playboy, war hero, and the first fascist dictator, who from 1919 to 1920 ruled over the Adriatic city-state of Fiume, establishing many of the political and aesthetic forms followed by Mussolini a few years later.
To learn more about D’Annunzio’s life and accomplishments, see the following works on this site: (more…)
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Equilibrium is a 2002 science fiction film that was poorly received and underviewed, largely seen as an also-ran to 1999’s The Matrix, which set the tone and style of cyberpunk thrillers to follow. Equilibrium is unjustly forgotten, a sleeper non-hit that deserves revisiting; a thoughtful and condensed statement on huge volumes of preceding dystopian literature and cinema.
Equilibrium plays to the strength of film as a medium in its ability to succinctly put salient points into character narratives that otherwise require full-length novels and academic treatises. (more…)
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Three years ago I did a semi-humorous, shaggy-dog piece about Pinocchio and the Fascisti (“Pinocchio: The Face of Fascism“). Its jumping-off point was talking about several Pinocchio films in the works, particularly a long-awaited stop-motion animation feature directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson. (more…)
Ron Jones
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In the faraway year of 1967, a unique social experiment took place in Cubberley High of Palo Alto, California. It was devised by Ron Jones, an innovative history teacher who had graduated from Stanford a few years prior. This classroom exercise spilled over into the rest of the school — to some degree, at least. It sometimes gets compared in retrospect to infamous studies in brutality such as the Milgram Experiment and the Stanford Prison Experiment. (more…)
Oswald Mosley v roce 1962
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Nebyli jsme jednotní, a proto jsme byli porobeni. Tak zní tragický epitaf dvou válečných generací. Jen tato slova a nic víc by měla ozdobit hrob evropského mládí. Takový byl osud mé generace v roce 1914 a taková byla i zkáza nové generace mladých vojáků v roce 1939. Mládí Evropy prolévalo krev svých bratří a hyeny tohoto světa blahobytně tloustly. Všichni, kdo bojovali, se octli v postavení porobených, bez ohledu na svou národní příslušnost. Vítězi se totiž stali jedině ti, kdo nebojovali, ale pouze shrábli zisky. (more…)
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Wyndham Lewis was born on this day in 1882. A first-rate novelist, critic, and painter, he was a leading English exponent of fascist modernism. In honor of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this website: (more…)
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The following text is being presented in commemoration of Sir Oswald Mosley’s 136th birthday. — Ed. (more…)
Georges Sorel
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Georges Eugène Sorel was born 175 years ago today, and died at the age of 74. Born in Normandy and educated in Paris, Sorel was an engineer by training who took an early retirement to devote himself to philosophy and politics. Although conservative by temperament (he defended the patriarchal family and martial virtues), Sorel became a Marxist, albeit an increasingly heterodox one, and a revolutionary syndicalist.
Although Sorel had an elite education, on all essential matters he was an autodidact. (more…)
Herbert Marcuse and the New Left gave rise to Leftism as we know it today.
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It is always popular to try to trace the ideological lineage of one’s political opponents back to a particular philosopher. This is not without merit. Marcuse and other New Left Marxists spawned many of the ills that afflict us today, but Leftism can only be properly understood as a governing ideology. It has reigned supreme in Western societies since at least the 1960s, and its subsequent development has not been driven by theorists and their books, but in response to the practical challenges that it has faced as a state religion. It has no bible to which one can refer, but central principles which are held inviolate by its supporters and a mythology supporting them. (more…)
Ezra Pound
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Americký básník a ikonoklasta, barvami hýřící Ezra Pound, jeden z nejvlivnějších umělců své generace, byl v letech 1945-1958 po obvinění z velezrady držen ve washingtonské psychiatrické léčebně. Pound se provinil jen tím, co dělal odjakživa: otevřeně říkal, co měl na srdci. Ke své škodě se však Ezra Pound za války ve svých rozhlasových pořadech z Itálie pustil do kritiky americké vlády, za což musel logicky skládat účty. Byl Ezra Pound prachsprostý vlastizrádce, nebo naopak prorok? Přečtěte si jeho slova a posuďte to sami. (more…)
Umělci pravice: D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930)
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„Mým opravdovým náboženstvím je víra v sílu krve.“ D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence (1885–1930) je považován za jednoho z nejvlivnějších spisovatelů 20. století. Jeho romány i básně lze číst mj. jako polemiku a proroctví, sám Lawrence se totiž považoval za proroka a zvěstovatele nového úsvitu, vůdce-spasitele, jenž osobně přinese nesmírnou oběť v podobě převzetí stěží přestavitelné zodpovědnosti diktátora, což lidstvo osvobodí, tak aby mohlo znovu nabýt svého lidství. (more…)