By Jonathan Bowden
Jonathan Bowden was once a paradox: at the one hand, he was once an avowed elitist and aesthetic modernist, but nevertheless, he relished such different types of renowned leisure as comics, photo novels, pulps, or even Punch and Judy indicates, which not just attract the hundreds but in addition supply a safe haven for pre- and anti-modern aesthetic tastes and developments.
Bowden used to be interested in pop culture since it was once rife with Nietzschean and Right-wing subject matters: heroic vitalism, Faustian adventurism, anti-egalitarianism, organic determinism, racial attention, biologically-based (and conventional) notions of the diversities and correct family of the sexes, and so forth.
Pulp Fascism collects Jonathan Bowden’s relevant statements on Right-wing subject matters in pop culture drawn from his essays, lectures, and interviews. those high-brow analyses of low-brow tradition exhibit simply how deep and critical shallow leisure may be.
About Pulp Fascism:
“Jonathan Bowden stated that greatness lies within the brain and within the fist. Nietzsche mixed either varieties within the snapshot of the warrior poet. For Bowden it used to be identical to the classy thug. I offer you Jonathan Bowden: cultured thug.”
—Greg Johnson, from the Foreword
“Jonathan Bowden used to be uniquely proficient as a cultural critic and revisionist, keen to discover the vague parts of low and high tradition, and follow principles from the previous to the research of the later, beginning consistently from the supposition that inequality is an ethical stable. Bowden’s texts are dense and wealthy in regards and perception, but stay pleasing and replete with humor.”
—Alex Kurtagić
“Many males supply speeches; Jonathan Bowden gave orations. To event one among Bowden’s performances should have been anything like listening to Maria Callas in her leading or witnessing considered one of Mussolini’s name to palms from a Roman balcony.
“As an highbrow, Jonathan was once a Renaissance guy, or even a package deal of contradictions: his novels and work have been of Joycean complexity, and but, in his orations and non-fiction writings, he used to be capable of lower to the essence of a philosophy or political improvement in a manner that used to be instantly comprehensible and, certainly, valuable for nationalists.
“Pulp Fascism will be referred to as Bowden’s ‘unfinished symphony’– his test (not relatively learned) to bare the unconventional, ambivalent, and, often times, shockingly traditionalist undercurrents in popular culture.
“That which envelops our lives is taken with no consideration . . . and hence hardly ever thoroughly analyzed and understood. Bowden brings new existence to these characters and comic-book worlds we too frequently brush off as child’s play.”
—Richard Spencer
“What’s so very important approximately comedian books? As an individual who has additionally written approximately comics, I solution hence: comedian books are, love it or now not, a part of our glossy pop culture, and we forget about that tradition at our peril. for a long time now, the Left has been training ‘deconstruction’ on our ideals, our beliefs, our traditions, our worldview, undermining the root upon which a humans continue to exist and thrive. it truly is excessive time that the hot correct practices a few deconstruction of its personal. yet Jonathan Bowden is going past damaging feedback; certainly, a substantial component to this quantity is optimistic remark on more fit expressions to be present in comics, photograph novels, and myth literature – quite often in these works produced via racially eu creators.”
—Ted Sallis
Jonathan Bowden, April 12, 1962–March 29, 2012, was once a British novelist, playwright, essayist, painter, actor, and orator, and a number one philosopher and spokesman of the British New correct.
