Tag: postmodernity

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In early June of 1990, the Navidsons flew to Seattle for a wedding. When they returned, something in the house had changed. Though they had only been away for four days, the change was enormous. It was not, however, obvious—like for instance a fire, a robbery, or an act of vandalism. Quite the contrary, the horror was atypical.
-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

I would rather not go
Back to the old house.
There’s too many bad memories.
-The Smiths, “Back to the Old House” (more…)

Discobolus, a Roman copy of the Greek original from the fifth century BC. Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.

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From a liberal perspective, there exists a logical (and also emotional) resistance to the use of concepts, terminologies, and ideas that are foreign to modernity, since for liberalism, being born detached from the latter, such foreign concepts, terminologies, and ideas would a priori be anti-modern and therefore anti-liberal.

A significant problem that has arisen for liberalism, as well as for the more conservative Right detached from modernity, is that the Left(s) have shifted the political battleground, relocating to new terrains and implementing new rules of engagement, where individuals and social groups are addressed and bombarded on different planes than were imaginable a few decades ago. (more…)

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Part 4 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

Translated by F. Roger Devlin

The history of modernity can be understood at least in part as a gigantic process of uniformization. Induced by philosophico-moral or political universalism and the diffusion of techniques for the modeling of behavior more effective than those of the most centralized dictatorships, it has expressed itself in the West by the gradual eradication of differentiated ways of life, (more…)

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A great deal of attention has been invested in the idea that the (re-)establishment of a White ethnostate is of paramount importance and of immediate concern for our movement and our people.  (more…)

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The words “sublime” and “numinous” have shifted in meaning somewhat over recent years. The word “sublime,” I presume, would now generally be interpreted to mean something of particularly great beauty, or an action particularly well executed. It would not be limited to a narrow usage but could be applied to any thing or action of particular excellence, perhaps with a slightly pretentious connotation of elegance.  (more…)

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Tradução: para o inglês por Greg Johnson
[Para o português pela Equipe Yrminsul]

Parte 1

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Untitled installation sometimes known as ”Judd’s Cubes” – Donald Judd

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Translated by Greg Johnson

In 1917, in Die Krisis der europäischen Kultur (The Crisis of European Culture), Rudolf Pannwitz described the Nietzschean Superman as “postmodern.” The concept then underwent a long eclipse before re-appearing in philosophical debate in 1979. (more…)

Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905–1980

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Part 3 of 3

Translated by Greg Johnson

The Babbitt with the Sartrean Paradox

In 1945, the tone of ideological debate was set by the victorious ideologies. We could choose American liberalism (the ideology of Mr. Babbitt) or Marxism, an allegedly de-bourgeoisfied version of the metanarrative. (more…)

“Organisation Todt” by Kettler, circa 1933–1945

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Part 2 of 3

Translated by Greg Johnson

The Encysted Metanarrative . . .

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The wise old Faust in FAUST (1926), directed by F. W. Murnau

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Part 1 of 3

Translated by Greg Johnson

In Oswald Spengler’s terms, our European culture is the product of a “pseudomorphosis,” i.e., of the grafting of an alien mentality upon our indigenous, original, and innate mentality. (more…)