When his book Bronze Age Mindset came out, it caused a storm in both sides of the left-right spectrum. That’s because, for many people, leftists and rightists included when I say “many people”, Bronze Age Pervert is a controversial writer. His neo-nietzscheanism, combined with a radical prose that invokes inspiration in young people (especially white cynical middle-class men) who are disenchanted with modernity, which is a element of capitalism that invokes the myth of progress stemming from enlightenment philosophy. While he has his flaws (his anti-semitism and misogyny, for example), we are ignoring a huge part of his work that can be useful to leftist philosophy, and by treating all right-wing writers as if they were nazis by extensions, we are suffering. Just like we should study cybernetics, math, theology (especially occult, gnostic and catholic theology), we should study the dissident-right theorists, and its precursors (Mishima, Spengler, Schmitt, Evola, etc.)
This isn't a substantive comment, but I'm struck at how similar BAP's speaking style, use of humour, anecdotes and general demeanor is to Zizek's. It doesn't come through when reading the book, but it feels eery on the podcast. Would love to hear the two in conversation somehow. Maybe they could do a movie review podcast together.
This isn't a substantive comment, but I'm struck at how similar BAP's speaking style, use of humour, anecdotes and general demeanor is to Zizek's. It doesn't come through when reading the book, but it feels eery on the podcast. Would love to hear the two in conversation somehow. Maybe they could do a movie review podcast together.