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Pulp Fascism (Hardcover)
Jonathan Bowden; Edited by Greg Johnson
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Jonathan Bowden was a paradox: on the one hand, he was an avowed
elitist and aesthetic modernist, yet on the other hand, he relished
such forms of popular entertainment as comics, graphic novels,
pulps, and even Punch and Judy shows, which not only appeal to the
masses but also offer a refuge for pre- and anti-modern aesthetic
tastes and tendencies. Bowden was drawn to popular culture because
it was rife with Nietzschean and Right-wing themes: heroic
vitalism, Faustian adventurism, anti-egalitarianism, biological
determinism, racial consciousness, biologically-based (and
traditional) notions of the differences and proper relations of the
sexes, etc. Pulp Fascism collects Jonathan Bowden's principal
statements on Right-wing themes in popular culture drawn from his
essays, lectures, and interviews. These high-brow analyses of
low-brow culture reveal just how deep and serious shallow
entertainment can be. About Pulp Fascism: "Jonathan Bowden said
that greatness lies in the mind and in the fist. Nietzsche combined
both forms in the image of the warrior poet. For Bowden it was the
image of the cultured thug. I give you Jonathan Bowden: cultured
thug." -Greg Johnson, from the Foreword "Jonathan Bowden was
uniquely gifted as a cultural critic and revisionist, willing to
explore the obscure areas of high and low culture, and apply ideas
from the former to the analysis of the later, starting always from
the supposition that inequality is a moral good. Bowden's texts are
dense and rich with reference and insight, yet remain entertaining
and replete with humor." -Alex Kurtagi "Many men give speeches;
Jonathan Bowden gave orations. To experience one of Bowden's
performances must have been something like hearing Maria Callas in
her prime or witnessing one of Mussolini's call to arms from a
Roman balcony. "As an intellectual, Jonathan was a Renaissance man,
or perhaps a bundle of contradictions: his novels and paintings
were of Joycean complexity, and yet, in his orations and
non-fiction writings, he was able to cut to the essence of a
philosophy or political development in a way that was immediately
understandable and, indeed, useful for nationalists. "Pulp Fascism
could be called Bowden's 'unfinished symphony'- his attempt (not
quite realized) to reveal the radical, ambivalent, and, in some
cases, shockingly traditionalist undercurrents in pop culture.
"That which envelops our lives is taken for granted . . . and thus
rarely properly analyzed and understood. Bowden brings new life to
those characters and comic-book worlds we too often dismiss as
child's play." -Richard Spencer About the Author Jonathan Bowden,
April 12, 1962-March 29, 2012, was a British novelist, playwright,
essayist, painter, actor, and orator, and a leading thinker and
spokesman of the British New Right. Born in Kent and largely
self-educated, Bowden was involved with a series of Right-wing
groups for which he was a popular speaker, including the Monday
Club, the Western Goals Institute, the Revolutionary Conservative
Caucus, the Freedom Party, the Bloomsbury Forum, the British
National Party, and finally the New Right (London), of which he was
the Chairman. Bowden was a prolific author of fiction, philosophy,
criticism, and commentary.
Dr. Greg Johnson is the editor of Counter-Currents Publishing and
its journal North American New Right (www.counter-currents.com),
which draw upon the ideas of the European New Right to promote a
new approach to White Nationalist politics in North America. New
Right vs. Old Right collects 32 essays in which Dr. Johnson sets
out his vision of White Nationalist "metapolitics" and
distinguishes it from Fascism and National Socialism (the "Old
Right"), as well as conservatism and classical liberalism (the
"Phony Right"). Dr. Johnson rejects the Old Right's party politics,
totalitarianism, imperialism, and genocide in favor of the
metapolitical project of constructing a hegemonic White Nationalist
consciousness within a pluralistic society. He argues that White
Nationalists are too dependent on the model of hierarchical
organizations and need also to work on creating resilient lateral
networks. He offers New Rightist answers to a number of disputed
questions within the White Nationalist community, including white
culpability for our decline, Hitler and National Socialism, the
Jewish question, the holocaust, the role of women, Christianity vs.
paganism, and the relationships of populism, elitism, and
democracy. He sets out some basic principles for creating a
growing, resilient, networked movement. Finally, he criticizes
distractions and dead-ends like "mainstreaming," conservatism,
"premature" populism, and political violence. Engagingly written
and constructively critical, Greg Johnson's New Right vs. Old Right
is an important contribution to the emerging North American New
Right. Praise for New Right vs. Old Right "Greg Johnson's basic
point is that we must work to create a metapolitics of explicit
white identity-that is, a movement that will develop 'the
intellectual and cultural foundations for effective White
Nationalist politics in North America, so that we can ultimately
create a white homeland or homelands on this continent.' Greg is
one of the reasons why I think this is a feasible project. . . .
Greg received his Ph.D. in philosophy, and it shows. His forte is
the well-developed argument presented in a lucid, easily understood
style. Nobody can complain about this book being filled with turgid
prose. And I can't find any major disagreements." -Kevin MacDonald,
from the Foreword "In New Right vs. Old Right, Greg Johnson lays
out his vision for a pro-white movement more focused on ideas,
education, and communication than on politics or thuggery. True to
this vision, his writing is extremely accessible. Throughout this
collection, Johnson breaks down complex philosophical concepts and
challenging ideas into tight, efficient sentences and effective
explanations. Johnson doesn't drone on trying to sound clever. Like
an enthusiastic professor, he truly wants his readers to understand
why he believes it is morally right for whites-and all peoples-to
determine their own collective destinies." -Jack Donovan, author of
The Way of Men "Dr. Greg Johnson's New Right vs. Old Right
delineates the differences between two 'Rights, ' without
repudiating the common philosophical origins of both in opposing
egalitarianism and other passe ideologies that continue to dominate
much of the world. The primary value of this collection of essays,
however, is that Dr. Johnson asks the perennial question, from our
side: "what is truth?" In doing so he lays the foundations for a
morality of the New Right. This book is therefore unique in the
English-speaking Rightist milieu that was, for much of the
post-1945 era, poorly served in comparison to its counterparts in
Europe. As such, Dr. Johnson's book will be of relevance to many
beyond the North American New Right, of which he is a founding
father." -Kerry Bolton, author of Artists of the Right
Web applications occupy a large space within the IT infrastructure
of a business or a corporation. They simply just don't touch a
front end or a back end; today's web apps impact just about every
corner of it. Today's web apps have become complex, which has made
them a prime target for sophisticated cyberattacks. As a result,
web apps must be literally tested from the inside and out in terms
of security before they can be deployed and launched to the public
for business transactions to occur. The primary objective of this
book is to address those specific areas that require testing before
a web app can be considered to be completely secure. The book
specifically examines five key areas: Network security: This
encompasses the various network components that are involved in
order for the end user to access the particular web app from the
server where it is stored at to where it is being transmitted to,
whether it is a physical computer itself or a wireless device (such
as a smartphone). Cryptography: This area includes not only
securing the lines of network communications between the server
upon which the web app is stored at and from where it is accessed
from but also ensuring that all personally identifiable information
(PII) that is stored remains in a ciphertext format and that its
integrity remains intact while in transmission. Penetration
testing: This involves literally breaking apart a Web app from the
external environment and going inside of it, in order to discover
all weaknesses and vulnerabilities and making sure that they are
patched before the actual Web app is launched into a production
state of operation. Threat hunting: This uses both skilled analysts
and tools on the Web app and supporting infrastructure to
continuously monitor the environment to find all security holes and
gaps. The Dark Web: This is that part of the Internet that is not
openly visible to the public. As its name implies, this is the
"sinister" part of the Internet, and in fact, where much of the PII
that is hijacked from a web app cyberattack is sold to other
cyberattackers in order to launch more covert and damaging threats
to a potential victim. Testing and Securing Web Applications breaks
down the complexity of web application security testing so this
critical part of IT and corporate infrastructure remains safe and
in operation.
James J. O'Meara's The Homo and the Negro brings a "queer eye" to
the overwhelmingly "homophobic" Far Right. In his title essay,
O'Meara argues that the Far Right cannot effectively defend Western
civilization unless it checks its premises about homosexuality and
non-sexual forms of male bonding, which are undermined not just by
liberals and feminists, but also by Judeo-Christian "family values"
advocates. O'Meara also uses his theory to explain the
stigmatization of Western high culture as "gay" and the worship of
uncultured oafs as masculine ideals. Although O'Meara grants that
the "gay rights" movement is largely subversive, he argues that
homosexuals have traditionally played prominent roles in creating
and conserving Western civilization. The Homo and the Negro
collects 14 pieces on such topics as conservatism, homosexuality,
race, fashion, Occupy Wall Street, Mad Men, The Gilmour Girls, The
Untouchables, The Big Chill, They Live, popular music (Heavy Metal,
Black Metal, New Age, Scott Walker), and such figures as Noel
Coward, Oscar Wilde, and Humphrey Bogart. Shaped by an eccentric,
post-WWII American upbringing, O'Meara draws upon "masculinist"
writers like Hans Bluher, Alisdair Clarke, and Wulf Grimsson, as
well as the Traditionalism of Rene Guenon, Julius Evola, and Alain
Danielou.
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