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War for Eternity: The Philosophy of the New Far Right with Benjamin Teitelbaum
The Technosocial Institute
English - May 13, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSociety & Culture Religion & Spirituality technology society consciousness philosophy politics futurism artificial intelligence social media tribalisation new media Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Benjamin Teitelbaum is an ethnographer of contemporary radical nationalism in Europe, a performer of Scandinavian folk music, and Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and International Affairs at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
In this conversation we discuss: the philosophy of traditionalism underpinning the contemporary far-right and its leading figures, from Julius Evola and Rene Guenon to Alexandr Dugin and Steve Bannon; the key principles of this philosophy: a view of cyclical time; a belief in a hierarchical caste society; an opposition to progress and mass society; the belief that we are at a time of disintegration at the end of a cycle; the disagreement between Bannon and Dugin on the USA; how Bannon and Dugin see AI; the ethics of studying the far right; the intersection of traditionalism and accelerationism; the place of Trump in history; the traditionalist vision, or lack of vision, of what the supposedly coming Golden Age will look like; the political and sociological implications of digital; Dugin's view of the new political subject (against the "individual" of modernity); and Bannon's view that Dugin is the key to turning Russia back towards the USA and away from China.
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https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062978455/war-for-eternity/