Monday, 26 December 2016
Sunday, 25 December 2016
RED ICE INTERVIEW
This is the complete interview I did with Red Ice Radio. I have waited a year before posting the second part, as it is in the members section and I think people ought to subscribe to Red Ice, as it is a valuable resource. This is Red Ice's introductory text to the interview:
Thursday, 22 December 2016
THE WICKER MAN AND IMPLICIT WHITENESS
We are of course concerned here with the 1973 classic of British cinema and not the 2007 remake, which should never be mentioned by anyone ever again. In fact, the only noteworthy aspect of the remake was Nicolas Cage's performance, as only he had realised the film was a parody. The original was largely the vision of three men: writer Anthony Schaffer, producer Peter Snell and actor Christopher Lee, who clubbed together to buy the film rights from the author of the novel Ritual David Pinner. The three were joined by director Robin Hardy, who also had a hand in the film's writing. A self-proclaimed conservative, Lee often stated that it was the best film he ever acted in. It is also, sadly, a film of which we will never see the director's cut, for the film was cut short by fifteen to twenty minutes and the footage edited out lost. Lee always maintained that there was a film ten times better than the one shown in theatres, if only the cans of reel could be found. That said, some of the lost scenes have since been recovered, which certainly give more of an insight into the premise of the film.
Sunday, 11 December 2016
FILM REVIEW: EGON SCHIELE: TOD UND MÄDCHEN, Screening Paedophilia
Austrian arthouse film Egon Schiele: Tod und Mädchen is perhaps most disappointing in that Egon Schiele led a very interesting life, yet the scriptwriter Hilde Berger and director Dieter Berner have succeeded in making it appear rather dull, in the same way as Mike Leigh served up a snore-fest about J M W Turner a couple of years ago. Perhaps the two most interesting aspects of Schiele's life, his trial for paedophilia and his experiences in the First World War, are completely glossed over in favour of a superficial overview of more or less his entire adult life. There are of course reasons liberal fans of Schiele would want to avoid these issues, which we will address.
Monday, 5 December 2016
FORGOTTEN HISTORY: THE MARCONI SCANDAL
The following article was first published in Candour Magazine, Volume 75, Number 4, Issue 857.
G. K. Chesterton
"It is the fashion to divide recent history into Pre-War and Post-War conditions. I believe it is almost as essential to divide them into the Pre-Marconi and Post-Marconi days. It was during the agitations upon that affair that the ordinary English citizen lost his invincible ignorance; or, in ordinary language, his innocence […] I think it probable that centuries will pass before it is seen clearly and in its right perspective; and that then it will be seen as one of the turning-points in the whole history of England and the world." — G. K. Chesterton, 1936
The Marconi Scandal is an episode that has disappeared down the memory hole of history. There are reasons for this, as will be explained. It was a very complex series of events that have been difficult to distil into a short article such as this without leaving out anything essential. Nonetheless, I believe I have condensed the most important events and actions in this sordid affair. Firstly, we must begin with a little background history.
Saturday, 3 December 2016
THE PURITANISM OF PERVERSITY II: WHITE NIHILISM IN THE ARTS
That the movers and shakers among the Jews hate White Gentiles is beyond question. From Susan Sontag's "The White Race is the cancer of human history" to Noel Ignatiev's "The White Race must be destroyed" (even though it simultaneously does not exist), Jews have attempted to create the conditions that will lead to our extinction. This does not concern me. I expect such things from a rival group. What concerns me are those among our own people who wish to see our own destruction, for Susan Sontag is partly right: part of our race is cancerous, and like a cancer, they are the part of our organism that has died and become rotten and threatens to rot the whole. Nihilistic ideas are like diseases: they like to spread and infect and destroy. The Puritanism of Perversity is one such mental and spiritual disease.
Saturday, 19 November 2016
THE PURITANISM OF PERVERSITY I: MARINA ABRAMOVIC'S LEFTIST ANTI-ART OF POLITICS
The contemporary Left's dogma I have come to refer to as "the Puritanism of Perversity". There are historical, philosophical and even theological reasons for this term, which I will go into in another article, but the main principle rests on a certain fanatical pursuit of everything outside of societal norms, while simultaneously attacking even the very idea of normality with quasi-religious zealotry. This is very much reflected in the anti-art the Left serves up in the galleries, which is a kind of ritualisation of abnormality.
Leftist anti-art is very much political, for one thing the Left does is to politicise all aspects of life. Recently, the Podesta Brothers, Tony and John, the former being the head of a powerful Leftist lobby group, the latter Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, were implicted in anti-artist Marina Abramovic's "Spirit Cooking", which would appear to be some kind of Satanic ritual dressed up as art. As we see from these images, she very much sees herself as full-time Satanist and part-time poet Aleister Crowley's successor.
Friday, 18 November 2016
EYE OF THE MAELSTRÖM: A Tribute to Wyndham Lewis
The artist and writer Wyndham Lewis, born Percy Wyndham Lewis, styled The Enemy, was born on 18th November 1882 and is still very much alive, even if a cross-section of his brain has been dunked in a perspex case of formalin and stored in the Pathology Museum now in Hammersmith. A naturally rather antagonistic chap, he hit the London art scene like a dishevelled brick upon his arrival from Canada in 1908, and, while his effect on mainstream culture was extremely limited in his own time, his influence on the modernist movement from the 1910s onward has transformed contemporary art both in terms of succession and reaction to his life, politics and work.
Thursday, 17 November 2016
THE ALT RIGHT AND THE ARTS
Originally published at Counter Currents
Charles Krafft with one of his creations. |
I. The Road to Alt Right Artistry
Since Hillary Clinton’s mention of the Alternative Right in one of her speeches, there have been countless discussions about what the Alt Right is and represents, with everyone and anyone, no matter how inappropriate, suddenly declaring they are part of the Alt Right. I think it is quite easy to define what the Alt Right is: it is the postmodern manifestation of what Julius Evola termed the True Right.
The True Right has been almost completely disprivileged from the mainstream arts scene in the present day. The political Left, meaning firstly the Whiggish Left and then the socialist Left, realized as early as the late eighteenth century the power art had to shape political discourse by altering the masses’ perceptions of the world. They thus sought to seize the artistic mainstream as a means towards political power.