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Podcast: The Technosocial Institute
Episode: War for Eternity: The Philosophy of the New Far Right with Benjamin Teitelbaum
Description: 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...