ANOMIE BOULEVARD

by Brett Stevens

Driving around today, it became clear that most people were heavily distracted. They stopped in the middle of the road, randomly, and paused there for a long time. If you honked, they looked at you, bewildering: weren’t you experiencing the same confusion they were? Or fundamentally: is the world not just an extension of myself?

EYE ON THE RIGHT: HIGH-RISE

Contemporary Media seen from the Right

by Richard Wolstencroft

High-Rise is a brilliant piece of cinema by English filmmaker Ben Wheatley, who, with this film, is now established as a major new auteur. It’s a pretty faithful adaptation of the infamous 1970s novel by the dystopian author J.G. Ballard. The film itself is actually set in a retro-futuristic 1970s, which is a nice touch, and he even uses the paperback's 70s font for the opening credits, as well as the Brutalist architecture described in the book, revealing his attention to detail.

Ballard’s novel is about a chic multi-rise housing estate, falling into disrepair, turmoil, and a civil war of sorts between floors. It was a cult hit and is bound to be a cult hit as a film. More importantly, from an Alt-Right perspective, it is also a clear metaphor for Western Civilisation today and the way things are heading.

PODCAST 34: DREAMS OF DYSTOPIA

Ann Sterzinger

Alternative Right assistant editor Andy Nowicki chats with author Ann Sterzinger.

Topics include Ann's recent experiences as ex-editrix of Takimag and Trigger Warning; her soon-to-be-completed magnum opus LYFE, a futuristic comedy of a world (and moon) gone wrong; and the strangely hypnotic appeal of reading dystoptic fiction, i.e. books detailing perfectly awful future societies. Ann and Andy also broach the topic of Rachel Haywire and the Alt-Right's occasional obsession with Jews.

AUTHOR 2 AUTHOR WITH TITO PERDUE

by Andy Nowicki

On Saturday, March 7, it was my honor to attend a banquet in Atlanta, Georgia, honoring the great Southern author Tito Perdue.

At the event, organized and hosted by Counter-Currents editor Greg Johnson, Mr. Perdue delivered a memorable speech, in which he laid out a delightfully whimsical, savagely fantastical vision of the future, which closely resembled the bizarre and wondrous dystopias he concocted in his recent novels The Node and Reuben (the latter of which I had the privilege of helping to edit for Radix). Read Tito's speech here.

To help commemorate the man who whose literary greatness will one day surely be acknowledged – and whose novels will be required reading in freshman-level English classes once this present darkness is dispelled and civilization finally gets re-established – I am re-running this conversation I had with Tito in early 2013, in which I queried him concerning his then just-published The Node, and during which I had the privilege of him querying me about my much-lesser work Under the Nihil.

DYSTOPIAS: FICTION AND FACT

In this latest video log, Andy Nowicki talks about the new movie The Giver, and analyzes the reasons why dystopian scenarios seem to be turning up with greater frequency in YA novels and big-budget movies these days. Is there a nascent fear of an actual dystopia rapidly sneaking up on us? Or are our rulers preparing the ground for a terrifying totalitarian future?

Then, switching gears back to the increasingly dystopic present, Andy discusses the recent travails of Gavin McInnes (the latest victim of PC cultural terrorism), and gently critiques Jim Goad's proposal to revel in mockery and contempt for the intellectually dishonest creeps who rule the current culture and want to shut up all us hearty, hateful, heretical dissidents – we who are keep interfering with their plans to utterly brainwash the populace with incomprehensibly silly ideologies.

The Giver
The travails of Gavin McInnes.
Vigilant Citizen on The Hunger Games
Jim Goad on "How to Deal With the Brainwashed"


Andy Nowicki, co-editor of Alternative Right, is the author of seven books, including Under the Nihil, The Columbine Pilgrim, Considering Suicide, and his latest, Beauty and the Least. He occasionally updates his blog when the spirit moves him to do so.

INTO THE GRIM DARKNESS...

by Siryako Akda

"It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor of Mankind has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the master of mankind by the will of the gods and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the vast Imperium of Man for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day so that he may never truly die. Yet even in his deathless state, the Emperor continues his eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the Warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor's will. Vast armies give battle in His name on uncounted worlds. Greatest amongst his soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, bio-engineered super-warriors. Their comrades in arms are legion: the Imperial Guard and countless planetary defence forces, the ever-vigilant Inquisition and the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat to humanity from aliens, heretics, mutants – and far, far worse. To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be relearned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods."

～The Official Introduction to Warhammer 40,000

Dystopia incites a person to fight. Dystopia incites a person to face the ever-present possibility of death. Dystopia incites pessimism, but it also incites feelings of courage and martial virtues. In other words, Dystopia is Cryptofascist. Judge Dredd, Frank Herbert’s Dune, Niven and Pournelle's The Mote in God's Eye, and of course, George Orwell’s 1984 are all good examples of dystopian fictions, and they can be said to have Fascist, or at least, anti-modern themes. The following article will deal with one of the most popular Dystopian fictions in popular culture, and that is Warhammer 40,000.