Week Seven 12/11/2015 The Right Looks East - Authoritarian Nationalism in the Aftermath of the Cold War

Sharable link to passage from Runaway Horses in which a judge experiences the immanence of a sublime and mysterious past while watching the competitors at a martial arts terminate.

https://vimeo.com/28781779

Henry Scott Stokes Mishima

Week Six 12/4/15 Julius Evola, Savitri Devi, Marcel Duchamp and the Carrion of Aristocracy

So it seems to me like this:

Has something to do with this guy, as described on pages 772-773 of this.

But it's more interesting to think about it in terms this lady down here:

Julius Evola and the Kali Yuga - Savitri Devi and the Hitler Avatar

This a radio broadcast by Dave Emory , which leans heavily on the above-linked text.

Which has already brought us to the guy who painted this.

Untitled 1918-1919

Who thought the Nazi's weren't far-right enough, or far enough to the right, or . . . you know. . .

and who's book Ride the Tiger, contains fantastically grouchy musings on culture

"There is a well-known intellectual and humanist type who fosters an almost hysterical intolerance for anything referring to the political world-state ideals and authority, strict discipline, war, power, and domination-and denies them any spiritual or cultural value". pg 152

". . . the polarity between the sexes is diluted, as seen in the conduct οί "modern" life where the youth οί both sexes are everywhere intermingled, promiscuously and "unaffectedly," with almost nο tension , as if they were turnips and cabbages in a vegetable garden . " pg. 200

So unfortunately the only book I could find about him and Marcel Duchamp is in French, but I bet they rubbed shoulders, and I think they probably had a lot in common - hatred of the bourgious , fascination with magic alchemy (though M.D. said this part of work was just a put-on, but I mean - he would wouldn't he?) If anything Duchamp was more sexist then Evola.

"Femme-Cocher was a topical reference to the first women hack drivers in Paris; it shows a horse-draw cab, sans driver, pulled up in front of a hotel, where the driver and her fare have presumably gone for activities unrelated to transportation."

Calvin Tompkins, Duchamp 33

But then, it's hard to beat the king. . .

Week Five 11/28/2015 Avatars of the Abattoir -The Travails of Ages

Plutarch - Customs of the Spartan People

The Dream War - Ed Halter
The Dream War - Ed Halter (2nd part)

On Pain - Ernst Junger
On Pain - Forward and Translators Notes

Patton's Revery in Carthage - links to video clip

Week Four 11/21/2015 Christian Moderns

Week Four 11/21/2015

George Steiner Real Presences_Secondary City

Week Three 11/14/2015 Oswald Spengler's Morphology of Decline

Der Untergang des Abendlandes - The Decline of the West [English]

Oswald Spengler - On Makrokosmos
the Problem of the Estates

Week Two 11/7/15

Agave Moments: Sade, Sexual Revolution, and a Catholic Theory of the Unconscious.

Pius VI CHARITAS (On The Civil Oath In France)