Something's Got to Give
Silence is security, but security gets boring at some point.
I know it's been far too long since I've been heard from here. There were reasons for this, first and foremost my day-to-day Wage Cage™ work—and not least my own book projects.
Incel
There is the little volume in the “kaplaken” series that I mentioned in my last post. It was published in February and, as the first and so far only serious German-language discussion of the Incel meme, is the most successful book in the current three-volume “kaplaken” season: Incel: Fatale Strategien (find a matching Spotify playlist here).
While working on it, I received important suggestions and inspiration from numerous Substack authors, of whom I would like to shout out
and here.Neoreaction and Dark Enlightenment
I have also written down and substantially expanded my notes for the lecture on “Neoreaction and Dark Enlightenment” I gave in spring 2023 for the webinar series of the “GegenUni” (“CounterCollege,” if you will). This compact—and gentle, hahaha—introduction to NRx for a German-speaking audience was published by Jungeuropa Publishing, also in February: Neoreaktion und Dunkle Aufklärung: Die rechtslibertäre Versuchung (find a matching playlist here).
As for the major protagonists referenced therein, you can obviously find
and on here, but also , , , and various other contributors to the somewhat intricate nexus I have tried to convey.These two major writing projects are now complete, and I am just as satisfied with the resulting books as I am with their success. New publication projects are already underway, but I very much hope to finally achieve a regular publication rhythm on this platform in the second half of 2024. Let's try to start with at least one noteworthy article per month. How about that?
In any case, thanks to everyone who has stayed with me during the long periods of dead air, and a warm welcome to anyone who feels like doing it now!