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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
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.
Since 2001, Trevor Lynch's witty, pugnacious, and profound film
essays and reviews have developed a wide following among cinephiles
and White Nationalists alike. Lynch deals frankly with the
anti-white bias and Jewish agenda of many mainstream films, but he
is even more interested in discerning positive racial messages and
values, sometimes in the most unlikely places. Trevor Lynch's White
Nationalist Guide to the Movies gathers together some of his best
essays and reviews covering 32 movies, including his startling
philosophical readings of Pulp Fiction, The Dark Knight Trilogy,
and Mishima; his racialist interpretations of The Lord of the Rings
and Gangs of New York; his masculinist readings of The Twilight
Saga and A History of Violence; his insights into the Jewish nature
of the superhero genre occasioned by Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy
movies; and his hilarious demolitions of The Matrix Trilogy, The
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series, and the detritus of Quentin
Tarantino's long decline. Trevor Lynch's White Nationalist Guide to
the Movies establishes its author as a leading cultural theorist
and critic of the North American New Right. "Trevor Lynch provides
us with a highly literate, insightful, and even philosophical
perspective on film-one that will send you running to the video
rental store for a look at some very worthwhile movies-although he
is also quite willing to tell you what not to see. He sees movies
without the usual blinders. He is quite aware that because
Hollywood is controlled by Jews, one must typically analyze movies
for their propaganda value in the project of white dispossession.
Trevor Lynch's collection is a must read for anyone attempting to
understand the deep undercurrents of the contemporary culture of
the West." - Kevin MacDonald, author of The Culture of Critique,
from the Foreword "Hollywood has been deconstructing the white race
for nearly a century. Now Trevor Lynch is fighting back,
deconstructing Hollywood from a White Nationalist point of view.
But these essays are not just of interest to White Nationalists.
Lynch offers profound and original insights into more than 30
films, including Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, Quentin
Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy, and Martin
Scorsese's Gangs of New York. These essays combine a cultural and
philosophical sophistication beyond anything in film studies today
with a lucid, accessible, and entertaining prose style. Every
serious cineaste needs to read this book." - Edmund Connelly "The
Hollywood movie may be the greatest vehicle of deception ever
invented, and the passive white viewer is its primary target. Yet
White Nationalist philosopher and film critic Trevor Lynch
demonstrates that truth is to be found even in this unlikeliest of
places. If American audiences could learn the kind of critical
appreciation Mr. Lynch demonstrates for them, their seductive
enemies in Tinseltown wouldn't stand a chance." - F. Roger Devlin,
author of Alexandre Kojeve and the Outcome of Modern Thought
"Trevor Lynch's White Nationalist Guide to the Movies is not some
collection of vein-popping rants about Hollywood's political
agendas. It's a thoughtful and engaging examination of ideas in
popular films from a perspective you won't find in your local
newspaper or in Entertainment Weekly. Lynch has chosen films
that-in many cases-he actually enjoyed, and playfully teased out
the New Right themes that mainstream reviewers can only afford to
address with a careful measure of scorn. How many trees have been
felled to print all of the Marxist, feminist, minority-pandering
'critiques' of contemporary celluloid over the past fifty years?
Isn't it about time we read an explicitly white review of The
Fellowship of the Ring, or Traditionalist take on take on The Dark
Knight?" - Jack Donovan, author of The Way of Men
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