"Participation in capitalist markets and bourgeois virtues has civilized the world. It has 'civilized' the world in more than one of the word's root senses, that is, making it 'citified,' from the mere increase in a rich population. It has too, I claim, as many eighteenth-century European writers also claimed, made it courteous, that is, 'civil.' 'The terrestrial paradise,' said Voltaire, 'is Paris.'"| Free Association
Islamophobia is one of the ideological currents that significantly undergirds our current world order . . . and Zohran Mamdani’s election disrupts the flow of that ideological current. The post Zohran Mamdani and Strategic Islamophobia appeared first on Contending Modernities.| Contending Modernities
Augustine passed on to us, and all posterity, prescient words of wisdom: that even in the most disconcerting and dark of times, beauty, compassion, truth, love, and happiness abound. When the Visigoths sacked Rome in 410, the city that had taken the world captive had fallen into captivity. The event was a transformative moment in [...]| The Imaginative Conservative
It is an intimate art, the translation business. But it is the art of creatures like we humans, who live always on the border of matter and spirit, trying to marry together the infinite and the finite, the spiritual and the earthly, the eternal and the temporal. On January 11, 1940, the Italian writer and [...]| The Imaginative Conservative
Immediately after the end of the Second World War, the historian Emilio Roig de Leuchsenring published a thin book in Havana with the title Weyler en Cuba: un precursor de la barbarie fascista (Páginas, 1947), which made a direct connection between twentieth century political movement fascism and the lurking shadow of the Spanish general Valeriano […]| Infrapolitical Reflections
Taking affective investments seriously can be transformative for understanding the staying power of trends and tendencies in biblical reception. The post Bibles Belong to All of Us: Elizabeth Shakman Hurd Interviews Hannah Strømmen appeared first on Contending Modernities.| Contending Modernities
What does a focus on biblical assemblages together with the far-right allow us to see anew? The post Bibles Belong to All of Us: Masculinity, Civilization, and the Bibles of the Far Right appeared first on Contending Modernities.| Contending Modernities
A good place to start on Tetsuro Watsuji’s Climate (1935) is by considering how the very notion of the Japanese fudo as it appears defined in the first pages of the text, as a “structural element of human existence”. Augustin Berque has proposed a slightly different translation: the “structural moment” that speaks semantically to the […]| Infrapolitical Reflections
The Sumerians invented kingship, priesthood, diplomacy, law, and war. They gave the West its founding stories: the opposition of darkness and light at the Beginning; the Flood, with its ark and dove and surviving patriarch; the tower of Babel; the distant ancestors of Odysseus and Hercules. The Sumerians established the outlines of our political, legal, […]| Dojo Darelir, the School of Xenograg the Sorcerer
Unexpectedly, Chesterton on Patriotism from 2021 is one of my all-time top performing posts due to a slow but steady drip of Google Search hits. In 1908, G.K. Chesterton published the following lin…| Economist Writing Every Day
Peter Brown’s Wild Robot series transcends the anti-humanist moralism of much contemporary children’s literature and presents a much-needed vision of a habitable future.| Damage
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It is too often that we hear a common critique raised against the theoretical skepticism of the primacy of politics in the form of an alleged prefigured “mysticism”, as if the destructive operation…| Infrapolitical Reflections
How the World Made the West tells the story of surprisingly complex relationships of contact, trade and competition among small city states around the Mediterranean and Middle East starting around …| Unsolicited Feedback
Discover how rivers that shaped European cities helped build Vienna, Cologne, Paris, and Rome into powerful centers.| World Rivers
Notes on Civilization 7| Chris Short
Author: Alexander Dugin Translator: Jafe Arnold Chapter 1 of Noomakhia – The Yellow Dragon: The Civilizations of the Far East (Moscow: Academic Project, 2018) *** China is recognized to be an independent and unique civilization by virtually everyone, and therefore there is no need to prove this. Rather, we are faced with attempting to reveal the structure […]| Eurasianist Internet Archive
Author: Alexander Dugin Translators: Jafe Arnold and John Stachelski Chapter 7 of Mysteries of Eurasia (Moscow: Arktogeia, 1991) / Chapter 6/Part 6/Book I of Foundations of Geopolitics (Moscow, Arktogeia, 2000). *** Geopolitics as an “Intermediary” Science Geopolitical concepts have long been the most important factor in modern politics. These concepts are based on general principles which allow one to […]| Eurasianist Internet Archive
Charles Darwin fathered not just a scientific theory, but a toxic social ideology that fueled racist colonial policies in Africa. In this sobering book, African scholar Olufemi Oluniyi traces the insidious impact of Darwinian ideas on British imperial policies in Northern Nigeria. Drawing on official documents, public statements, and well-attested historical events, Oluniyi documents how concepts such as evolutionary racism Read More ›Source| Books – Discovery Institute
Human rights: we all have some, although many of us apparently want ever-more of them. Although they’re written into constitutions, they seem to be changing all the time. Activists demand new rights, human rights tribunals and courts discover or invent new ones almost out of thin air, and politicians are quick to take credit for granting or defending them. But where do human rights actually come from? And what are they based on? Patrick Keeney provides a timely reminder of Christianity’s ...| C2C Journal
No work of Christian theology has left such an impact on the world and biblical interpretation and understanding as St. Augustine’s "City of God." We who read the Bible do so, often unknowingly, through the eyes of the bishop of Hippo. (essay by Paul Krause)| The Imaginative Conservative
In the following months some of us will offer an eight week seminar exclusively dedicated to a close and analytical reading of the enigmatic work La persuasione e la rettorica (1910) by Italian thi…| Infrapolitical Reflections
Türkiye’s Gobekli Tepe has long been considered the world’s oldest settlement, an extraordinary outlier. Here,… The post Boncuklu Tarla: The Town Older than Gobekli Tepe appeared first on Historic Mysteries.| Historic Mysteries
"A harsh penalty indeed for the mundane crime of burning fossil energy"| Collapse 2050
There is something vessel-like in communication, and the need to keep it alive and to give it consistency and texture; to prolong it in both time and space. If it is true that ‘empty chatter’ is th…| Infrapolitical Reflections
Having finished Clive James’s Cultural Amnesia, which we were talking about recently, I found an early response from Jay Spencer Green in the now defunct Irish Left Review (visible through th…| Death is a Whale
We all hold to faith or hope in things that are no longer working for us. We continue to believe in systems that are not just broken but irredeemable. And our belief in those system and our hope in…| Another End of the World is Possible
The insides of a hoarder's house is visual reminder of a lifetime of waste.| Collapse 2050
Michael Dowd invited us, at the end of the world, to love the world.| Another End of the World is Possible
I must again beat on this point, I’m ready to explode like Mt. St. Helens, some Russia bish let her toddler run around restaurant shrieking randomly, sounds still reverberating through my nerves hours later…meanwhile she look through backpack as if it was her private bathroom. Oh you’re anti-natalist! You oppose WHITE WOMIN having children going in public…no I oppose decivilization and poeple shitting in middle of road. The real anti-natalism is promotion of this matriarchy. Don’t y...| Tanner Hauser
If the only way to stop climate change is to burn more fossil fuels in the short run, then we're already doomed.| Collapse Musings
Preliminary returns research into the longest-lived institutions in the world.| Long Now
