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Monthly Archive: May 2015

Monday

4

May 2015

15

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Aesthetics Week

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Aesthetics is often neglected among the far-right for several reasons. First, it’s viewed as the exclusive domain of the left. Second, aesthetics is a difficult subject to broach. Few areas of study are neglected based on cliches. Art is one such area that remains under-appreciated because of simple dogma: beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What room for aesthetics, then? Third, it simply is not seen as terribly important. What exactly does it do? What does it make? How do you quantify it? Even if we can quantify it, is aesthetic engineering of public spaces an acceptable practice in […]

Friday

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May 2015

9

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The Anti-Fascist Psychodrama

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One of the strangest trends in modern politics is the growth of the professional Anti-Fascist. The bread and butter of these men and women is in vanquishing the Fascist hordes that seem to crop up every week or so. In the United Kingdom, where I live, these types congregate in organizations with names like ‘Hope not Hate’ and ‘Unite Against Fascism’. Meanwhile, the magazine ‘Searchlight’ scours the seedy underbelly of British politics to find the next big ‘far-right’ threat. You, like me, might find the idea of a Western democracy succumbing to a fascist takeover somewhat far-fetched. Even just a […]