Tag Archives: nostalgia

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Believe it or not, there was once a time in the now-enviable 2000s in which Midwestern indie bands were considered the epitome of cool. If you wore plaid shirts (sometimes, with a t-shirt over said shirt), could play passable guitar, and had a just-so-slightly off-kilter voice with which you could sing about outsiderdom and ennui, Read more …

Published: August 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aging, articles, Bright Eyes, folk music, implicitly white music, indie music, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, Scott Weisswald, the 2000s | 3 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 282
More Culture-Jamming with Morgoth

Counter-Currents Radio

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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 Christopher Pankhurst, electronic music, Frankfurt School, Greg Johnson, Hannibal Lecter, hautology, interviews, Joy Division, Laibach, Mark Fisher, Morgoth, New Order, podcasts, progressive rock, television, Thomas Harris | 2 Responses

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Life at the End of History:
Against Nineties Nostalgia

Travis LeBlanc

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To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I grew up in the final years of the Cold War. If you aren’t old enough to remember the Cold War, let me tell you that it was a trip.

Crystal Castles

Scott Weisswald

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Crystal Castles is a Canadian band, initially consisting of singer Alice Glass and producer Ethan Kath. The two met each other because of their mutual connections in the large and prolific Toronto music scene, and collaborated on one track, the chaotic “Alice Practice,” as a mere experiment. The two never intended to form a full-time group Read more …

Published: June 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, history, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, pop culture, pop music, Scott Weisswald, techno, youth | 3 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 262
Nostalgia for a Lost Future:
A Conversation with Xurious

Counter-Currents Radio

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Greg Johnson talks to composer Xurious about his intellectual, political, and artistic journey and the censorship of his music by YouTube. Read more …

Published: February 28, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged anarchism, Carl Schmitt, Christianity, Counter-Currents Radio, deplatforming, electronic music, elites, futurism, Greg Johnson, hierarchy, interviews, Julius Evola, liberalism, meditation, mysticism, podcasts, Rene Guénon, social media, sovereignty, Traditionalism, vaporwave | 11 Responses

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Now in Audio Version!
7-11 Nationalism

Richard Houck

Remember what they stole from us.

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Also: Rich’s podcast on 7-11 Nationalism here. Read more …

Published: October 26, 2019 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged articles, black criminality, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, Richard Houck, white flight | 3 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 235
Rich Houck on 7-11 Nationalism

Richard Houck

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7-11 Nationalism

Richard Houck

Remember what they stole from us.

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“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” — L. P. Hartley

There’s an old time capsule video from 1987 titled “2:30am at a 7-11 near Disney World” that has made its way around the Internet over the years and has been viewed millions of times. Read more …

Published: June 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, black criminality, diversity, immigrants and crime, mass immigration, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, Richard Houck, the civil rights movement, white flight | 28 Responses

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What’s in a Home?

Buck Daniels

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I took an interest in architecture a few years back, after reading Crawford’s The World Beyond Your Head. The book described the effects of the arrangement of space on how we perceived and acted in the world. The effects of arranged space could be negative—the distraction of eye-catching advertisements and flashing lights—or positive—the machine-like feeling of cooking in a well-stocked and well-organized kitchen. Read more …

Published: October 31, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged architecture, articles, Buck Daniels, cosmopolitanism, Home, living well, modern architecture, North American New Right, originals, white nationalism | 4 Responses

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Nostalgia:
The Capitalist Remedy for Meaninglessness

Donald Thoresen

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Editor’s Note:

This speech was delivered at the Francis Parker Yockey Memorial Dinner in the San Francisco Bay Area on August 19, 2017. — Greg Johnson

“There can be no national epic about things which the people cannot picture themselves as reproducible in a near future . . .” — Georges Sorel[1] Read more …

Published: August 21, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Donald Thoresen, history, identity, irony, meaning, North American New Right, originals | 7 Responses

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Janáček’s The Makropulos Case as Archeofuturist Opera

Donald Thoresen

From the San Francisco Opera production of The Makropulos Case, 2016.

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Leoš Janáček
The Makropulos Case
English National Opera, conducted by Sir Charles MacKerras, Chandos, 2007

(Warning: This review contains spoilers for the plot of this opera.)

Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) was a Czech composer known for his combination of folk music with a strikingly original modernism. There is no other composer who sounds remotely like him. He is as instantly recognizable as Vivaldi, Wagner, or Philip Glass. Read more …

Published: January 11, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Archeofuturism, Donald Thoresen, Guillaume Faye, irony, music reviews, North American New Right, opera, originals, vaporwave | 1 Response

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The Counter-Currents 2015 Summer Fundraiser
The Politics of Nostalgia

Greg Johnson

Albrecht Dürer, Melencolia I, 1514, detail

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Since our last update, on September 2nd, we have received 24 donations totaling $2,215.88, in amounts ranging from $7 to $650. Eight of these donations were merely the first of ongoing monthly pledges, which are especially helpful. Our total is now $16,374.88. We are thus $103,956.12 from our goal of $120,331 ($23,625.12 from last year’s goal of $40,000), with basically six weeks to go before the fundraiser ends on Halloween. I want to thank all our donors, new and old. You make Counter-Currents possible. Read more …

Published: September 17, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2015 fundraiser, alienation, articles, Greg Johnson, nationalism, news items, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

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A Nice White War Movie

Margot Metroland

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Where were you when Adlai Stevenson died? It was the summer of ’65, and I was sitting in a dark movie theater in Plattsburgh, New York with some cousins, and we were watching a very long, complicated, black-and-white war movie called In Harm’s Way.

In Harm’s Way was way over my head. It was an Otto Preminger production, thus by 1965 standards it was racier than the average fare, chuggy-jam full of intricate subplots about rape, adultery, class-envy, and other grown-up business that left me cold. Read more …

Published: September 10, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American identity, Margot Metroland, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals | 1 Response

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Guy Ritchie’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Jef Costello

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Readers of this website are aware of the fact that I am an aficionado of the ’60s superspy series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. But I awaited Guy Ritchie’s “reimagining” of U.N.C.L.E. with some trepidation. A big screen adaptation of the series has been in the works for around 40 years. And an execrable TV movie was actually made in 1983. The theatrical film project has changed hands many times, and innumerable scripts have been written. After Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino announced that The Man From U.N.C.L.E. would be his next project (I reacted to this news with mixed feelings). Read more …

Published: August 14, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Jef Costello, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, the 1960s, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | 7 Responses

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Letting Go

Jeff Frankas

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Alien to American heritage.

It’s a phrase I heard on a radio program a few days ago, and it got my attention. I thought about it a lot, because it pretty much sums up how many of us feel at the moment.

It doesn’t matter where I am, or what I’m doing, it’s always there. That sinking feeling. Read more …

Published: July 3, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America, articles, Jeff Frankas, North American New Right, originals, secession, white dispossession, white identity, white nationalism | 5 Responses

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Toward a Right-Wing Hauntology:
Mark Fisher’s Ghosts of My Life

Christopher Pankhurst

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Mark Fisher
Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2014

Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx was an attempt to resurrect Marxism. Published in 1993, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe, Specters of Marx was an attempt to disrupt the apparent flow of historical progression Read more …

Published: June 27, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Christopher Pankhurst, classical music, cyclical history, decadence, Giacinto Scelsi, hautology, Jacques Derrida, Mark Fisher, Marxism, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, philosophy of culture, The Shining, Traditionalism | 2 Responses

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The Presence of the Past:
From Ancestor Worship to Hauntology

Christopher Pankhurst

William Blake, “Hamlet and his Father’s Ghost”

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We never manage to bury the dead completely. Their words still echo down to us from beyond life’s event horizon in direct contravention of physical law. Our stance towards death is a determining factor in how the dead return to us; in what form and with what significance they haunt the living. Although they are always there, the ways in which they interact with us vary and shift through time. And, at the present time, there is a strange blend of residual religious funerary rites and atheistic materialism. It feels very much as though we go through the motions of dispatching the dead to the next world without believing a word of it. Read more …

Published: June 9, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Anglo-Saxons, articles, Asatru, Beowulf, capitalism, Christopher Pankhurst, hautology, Jacques Derrida, literature, M. R. James, Marxism, North American New Right, originals, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining, William Shakespeare | 6 Responses

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History, Action, & the Timeless

Savitri Devi

Willy Meller, Schicksalsstunde (Hour of Destiny)

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Translated by R. G. Fowler

“Time, Space and Number
Fell from the black firmament,
Into the still and sombre sea.
Shroud of silence and shade,
The night erases absolutely
Time, Space and Number.”
—Leconte de Lisle (“Villanelle” [pastoral poem], Poèmes Tragiques)