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Julius Evola: The World's Most Right-Wing Thinker? (7 Parts) Baron Julius Evola (1898-1974) was probably the major extreme right thinker to emerge from the rubble of the Second European Civil War (1939-1945). This talk by Jonathan Bowden pin-points him as a metaphysical objectivist (unlike Nietzsche) who looked to primordial Traditions as the foundation stone for a new era. Evola's major works of a 'social' type are examined. These include Revolt Against the Modern World (1934), Men Among the Ruins (1953), Ride the Tiger (1961) and Metaphysics of War (2007). Nor does the speaker neglect his Occultism, mountaineering, studies of comparative religion, or Dadaist involvement - the latter seen as an anti-bourgeois fiat. |
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George Orwell's 1984 and Left-wing Totalitarianism (7 Parts) Dispensing with J.L. Talmon’s thesis, Jonathan Bowden examines in depth the major political novel of the twentieth century. He deals with Newspeak, Ingsoc (English Socialism), The Two-Minute Hate, Big Brother, the Inner and Outer Party, the Anti-Sex League and “The Book”, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism. He also has occasion to look at torture and the Party’s dialectic – what Raymond Aron called The Dialectic of Violence in his critique of Sartre. This especially pertains to the figure of O’Brien (the party priest and Insider) whom Sir Richard Burton immortalised on film. In conclusion, Mr Bowden examines the BBC’s television play in the ‘fifties. Peter Cushing played Winston Smith on this occasion. An elderly Welsh viewer dropped dead during the rat-torture scene in the Ministry of Love. The ultimate review, perhaps? |
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Robert E. Howard and the Heroic (7 Parts) In this speech Jonathan Bowden chronicles the work, life and career of Conan’s creator. He also looks at his other pulp heroes or Supermen such as King Kull, Bran Mak Morn, Solomon Kane et al. The speaker surveys the demonisation of Masculinity and the forcing of heroic literature down into the ‘depths’ – primarily so as to escape liberal strictures. As a result of this analysis, he considers diverse work by Kipling, Robinson Jeffers, Henty, Edward Rice Burroughs, Robert Service and Sir Henry Newbolt, amongst others. |
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Stewart Home and Cultural Communism (7 Parts) This talk indicates the decay of Western academicism from the middle of the last century. Beginning with Existentialism, passing through to Structuralism, Post-Structuralism and then Deconstruction, Jonathan Bowden charts a declining self-confidence in our civilisation. He then changes tack and looks at those Art movements which parallel this. These are (dealt with in order of sequence) Lettrism, Situationism, Abstract Expressionism, Fluxus, Mail Art, Auto-Destructive Art, Funk Art, Action Act and other marginalia. By the by, the speaker deals with Stewart Home’s The Assault on Culture (Unpopular Books) as a taxonomy of decay. |
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Punch & Judy An excellent performance from Jonathan's film Grand Guignol. |
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H.P. Lovecraft (7 Parts) Recorded live at the 19th New Right meeting in London. |
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Thomas Carlyle (6 Parts) Recorded live at the 15th New Right meeting in London. |
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Hans-Jurgen Syberberg (6 Parts) Recorded live at the 14th New Right meeting in London. |
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British Sculpture (8 Parts) Jonathan Bowden on British Sculpture. |