Tag: reactionary modernism

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Barbara Will
Unlikely Collaboration: Gertude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, & the Vichy Dilemma
New York: Columbia University Press, 2011

Before 2011, I knew precisely five things about Gertrude Stein: she was Jewish; she was a lesbian; and she said that Hitler deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for tossing the Jews out of Germany. There were also two unimpeachable quotes: “A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose” (you can’t argue with logic like that) and “There’s no there there,” referring to Oakland, California. (more…)

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Jonathan Bowden
ed. Alex Kurtagić
Heat
London: The Palingenesis Project, 2017

Jonathan Bowden was Britain’s greatest orator. An autodidact who delved deeply into abstruse subjects, Bowden had a great affinity for those aspects of popular culture, religion, history, and philosophy that “impinge[d] on real matters” such as meaning and purpose. (more…)

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Greg Johnson welcomed Alexander Adams (WordPress, Substack), author of the recently-published book from Imperium Press Blood, Soil, Paint, to the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed Romanticism and modern art. It is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

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Yesterday, March 29th, 2022, was the tenth anniversary of Jonathan Bowden’s untimely death. To commemorate this brilliant orator, artist, and man of the right, we hosted a memorial livestream (replay available here).

To honor his contributions to White Nationalism, we are offering these incentives to give in Bowden’s memory.

Any gift of $120 or above will receive: (more…)

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Jonathan Bowden
Reactionary Modernism
Edited by Greg Johnson
San-Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2021
200 pages

Jonathan Bowden’s next collection of essays and speeches, Reactionary Modernism, will be released in September by Counter-Currents in hardcover, paperback, and ebook versions. We will begin taking orders once an official release date is set.

About Reactionary Modernism: 

“Let us return to tradition to go forwards with modernity in a different direction.”—Jonathan Bowden

Since the Second World War, “modernism” in the arts has been overwhelmingly associated with the cultural and political Left. But before the War, there was vigorous debate between modernists of the Right and the Left. (more…)