When a Hollywood news blast first stated Joaquin Phoenix would play the Joker in the new Warner Brothers DC vehicle, I rolled my eyes. When the first teaser trailer was released, I thought we were getting a Taxi Driver remake. As I left the theater thoroughly entertained, I realized what a trick Phoenix and director…
Month: October 2019
Serial Experiments Cybernetics Layer 05: von Foerster
“Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.” – von Foerster Heinz von Foerster was born in Vienna in 1911. Two of his grandfathers (Emil and Ludwig) were architects, and Ludwig Wittgenstein was an uncle and frequent visitor. Heinz himself often quoted the “Tractatus” at age 11. Von Foerster remained in…
Teaching Meme-Fu To The Chinese
Submitted by Bodhi Bronson Despite being a nominally communist country, China is not very left-wing. Their cities, like Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, are more capitalist, business-friendly, and money-obsessed than New York or London. Their popular media largely lacks profanity, pornography, and degenerate behavior of the sort that is promoted and celebrated in Western media, preferring…
“The Family”, projection, and power
“The Family” is best understood as a black comedy. In a comedy, it’s traditional to have a straight man – the character who doesn’t realize he’s in a comedy, and interprets things through the lens of “normalcy” – not quite an audience stand-in, because he doesn’t break frame even when any sane person would be…
The Administrative State + Five Friday Reads 10/25/19
Has the new target taken form? One may have thought the right would move from the media to academia, but it appears the deep state and the administrative state have put up such resistance and gunked up the gears so much that it has become enemy number one for the insurgents. It is the fourth…
In California, The Future Is Now
Observers note that California resembles America’s future with no demographic slice being a majority. Looking at the age pyramid, we know this is a lie as California moves to a Hispanic plurality on its way to a Hispanic majority. America in mid-century will be a quarter or so Hispanic but this of course depends all…
Escapist Dreams of Collapse
Collapse. The Post Apocalyptic World. Civil War 2. Boogaloo. Brazilification. These are all mostly variations on a theme and many seem uniquely American. Young white American men have been drawn to post apocalyptic themes like moths to flame. It’s the ultimate escape. Even contemporary mainstream culture reflects this: Mad Max style LARPing events, videogames like…
Clown Among the Ruins: Kino for the Postmodern Aristocrat of the Soul
“What I am about to say does not concern the ordinary man of our day. On the contrary, I have in mind the man who finds himself involved in today’s world, even at its problematic and paroxysmal points; yet he does not belong inwardly to such a world, nor will he give in to it….
Online Liabilities
Pitfalls and traps are in overabundance with participation in the Dissident Right. It’s the nature of this world, sadly. Long gone are the halcyon days of shitposting on the internet and casual meme-making. This was never a game and the Left has always known this. For many rightwing dissidents, the spectre of doxxing and harrassment…
Syria Withdrawal + Five Friday Reads 10/18/19
Just stop reading American media as news. Put on some DPRK uniforms and realize it is all never-ending propaganda for what our owners want. The Syrian withdrawal is causing a meltdown from the finest of specimens in the American system. We should all applaud removing US soldiers from war zones that have zero benefit to…
The American Sun 