Category Archives: aesthetics

Robert Stark interviews Ross Calvin about his American Colossus Project

aesthetics, American Culture, Ancient Greece, Archeofuturism, Architecture, Art, Art Deco, California, censorship, China, Cities, cryptocurrency, Culture, Donald Trump, Drugs, Economics, Historic Preservation, History, Jason Reza Jorjani, Jeffery Mishlove, Kamala Harris, Mythology, Philosophy, Prison, Retro Futurism, Ross Calvin, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, technology, Urbanism

Robert Stark speaks with Ross Calvin about his American Colossus Project, a proposal to construct a statue of the Greek Titan, Prometheus, on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Ross Calvin is from New Mexico, has a finance background, running an Austrian economics-focused investment fund in global macro, frontier markets, and volatility for 10 years. He transitioned to become a bitcoin miner, and developed a blockchain platform for oil and gas. Subscribe to Ross Calvin on Substack, and check out the American Colossus project on Substack, X/Twitter, and Instagram.

Topics:
-The tie in between the Mythos of Prometheus and Sound Money
-Prometheus as a symbol of triumph, beauty, the power of technology, and the regenerative spirit of man
-Ross’s inspiration from Jason Jorjani’s Prometheism, who is no longer involved with the project
-The hope that the Prometheus Statue can usher in a new renaissance for America and California
-The enormous reasons for optimism to counter pessimism and demoralization
-The significance and meaning of “The Pursuit of Happiness”
-How the Prometheus Statue will be a bookend to the Statue of Liberty, but much larger
-San Francisco’s natural and architectural beauty, and significance as the Manifest Destiny City
-The negative publicity about San Francisco’s decay and the drug crisis
-The oppressive symbolism of the Alcatraz prison and why Calvin does not think it has any historic preservation value
-The Statue’s designer and sculptor, Fen de Villiers
-The contrast between the archeo-futurist symbolism of Art Deco vs “the staidness of institutions” of Neo-Classicalism
-The plan to appeal to Trump, as presidents have the authority to create National Monuments
-Trump’s persona as a builder, his proposal to create a statue memorial garden, and his neoclassical executive order
-The project countering the iconoclasm and spirit of deconstruction
-Why artists should have a greater role in the economy and technological innovation
-How Silicon Valley has become monolithic, State oriented, and less creative
-How Prometheus stands against censorship
-Plans for a documentary and a museum that will be a temple to the Promethean spirit

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Robert Stark interviews Kitemporal

aesthetics, Alpha Males, Alt Center, Alternative Right, American Culture, Ancient Problemz, Anime, Asian Aryanism, Bronze Age Pervert, caste, Class, conformity, Conservatives, Culture, Deconstruction, Donald Trump, Economics, Erotica, Eugenics, Feminism, Francis Nally, Gender, Gnosticism, hedonism, Homosexuality, Human Bio Diversity, Incels, Kitemporal, Leftism, Managerialism, materialism, Middle Class, Nihilism, Personality Types, Philosophy, Pilleater, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, relationships, Religion, Sexuality, social status, Texas, The American South, Wealth, Zoomers

Robert Stark and Francis Nally (aka Pilleater) talk to Kitemporal about philosophy, class, eugenics, sexuality, and gender roles. Kitemporal describes himself as a Radical Leftist, individualist, and eugenicist. Subscribe to his Substack and follow him on Twitter/X.

Topics include:

-Why Kitemporal calls himself a leftist, even though the left and right are arbitrary terms
-How managerial liberalism stifles human potential and is dysgenic
–The backrooms as a metaphor for managerialism
-Why deconstruction is a valuable tool and can have anti-liberal results
-Why the Right has more respect for Bolsheviks than liberals
-How eugenics can be used for egalitarian aims (eg. breeding out toxic masculinity)
-Why Kitemporal calls himself a natalist nihilist
-The pros and cons of eugenics based on class
-Fertility trends by class
-Do libertarians, nerds, and artists have the lowest fertility?
-Beauty dysgenics
-Eurasians as a distinctly upper middle class ethnogenesis
-Why Kitemporal disagrees with the Ancient Problemz show that guys getting oral is upper class coded but rather macho coded
-How the normalization of fetishes makes them less transgressive
-The Ahegao face meme
-Whether low status men going down on high status women can ease the incel issue and  perhaps class warfare
-How anything can be normalized as high status to NPCs
-The latent bisexual undercurrents in rightwing politics
-Kitemporal’s new money redneck background
-Kitemporal’s esoteric proposals for gender roles
-How granting women the option of taking on full male gender roles discredits feminism
-Kitemporal’s religion of Dynostiscism

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Robert Stark interviews Ancient Problemz about the Peculiar Practices of The Upper Class

1980's, 1990's, aesthetics, American Beauty, American Culture, Ancient Problemz, anti-semitism, Baby Boomers, Black Lives Matter, Class, College, Cruel Intentions, Culture, Depravity, Feminism, Gender, Human Bio Diversity, Incels, materialism, Mental illness, Middle Class, Millennials, Morality, Pornography, Psychology, relationships, Sexuality, Social Isolation, social status, Suburbia, Walt Bismarck, Wealth, Zoomers

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Topics include:

-Robert’s article on the Politics of Oral
-Ancient Problemz’s upper middle class Jewish background and exposure to wealth
-The mass suburban affluence of the 1990s
-The late 90s/00s raunch culture with movies like American Pie, Wild Things, and Cruel Intensions
-American Beauty’s portrayal of upper middle class suburbia
-The 00s moral panic about oral
-Why oral is upper middle class and White coded
-Ancient Problemz hearing from gentile men in college that Jewish women are orally gifted
-How elites and proles are more degenerate while the middle class are prudes
-How the upper middle class and wealthy are discrete about their sexuality
-How people signal about politics and sexuality
-How natural-looking understated cosmetic surgery is a status signal for the wealthy
-The degree of validity to various anti-Semitic tropes
-Why rich high status women won’t let low status men go down on them for the same reason that BLM fizzled out
-Neo puritanism about sexuality
-Why zoomers are screwed up psychologically and sexually
-Why natalists should live by example
-Why physiognomy, the science of physical appearance, is legit

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Robert Stark interviews Meta Ronin about Esoteric AI

aesthetics, Alan Watts, Alt Center, Andrew Yang, Anime, Architecture, Art, automation, Basic Income, Buddhism, capitalism, Carl Jung, caste, Christianity, Cities, Class, Culture, decentralization, democracy, demographics, Distributism, dreams, Dystopia, Economics, Eugenics, Futurism, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, Incels, Kashif Vikaas, Meta Ronin, neo-reaction, Philosophy, Pilleater, Politics, Post-scarcity economy, Ray Kurzweil, Religion, Retro Futurism, Science, Science Fiction, Sex Robots, Sexuality, Silicon Valley, Social Isolation, social status, spirituality, Terence Mckenna, Transhumanism, Tucker Carlson, Urbanism, Utopia

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Topics include:

-How the moniker means a nomad like Ronin and Meta means transcending the greater truth
-Robert’s article on Techno Distributism
-The ineptitude of luddites and why we should embrace automation
-The case for UBI and the value of leisure
-The role of status and competition in a post-scarcity society
-The mentality of “I had to suffer so now you have to suffer too”
–Ray Kurzweil’s Moore’s Law
-Meta Ronin’s advocacy of Robot Waifus
-How AI GFs can serve as the Jungian anima, or inner feminine
-The Gamma male archetype
-How AI can be used for Jungian Shadow Work
-AI as a tool for Parapsychology/Spiritual Science to point to cosmic truths
-Creating a new Brahmin caste by brain-scanning people for spiritual responses
–A dystopian proposal to use magnets to rewire brains to make people less racist and religious
-Uploading consciousness to AI
-Meta Ronin’s interest in Daoism and Shintoism
-How religion is shaped by genetics
-Whether AI will become conscious/sentient
-Why AI will be good for offering everyone a specialized path
-Meta’s Ronin’s ideal urban model
-Beauty aesthetics as a value and hierarchy: order to sensory input on instinctual level
-Automation creating Darwinian bottlenecks
-Ethnogenesis forming between Whites and Asians
-The eugenic implications of artificial wombs
-The Silicon Valley neo-reactionaries
-Aristocratic reasons for opposing consumer capitalism and mass democracy
-Meta Ronin’s upcoming sci-fi novel
-Dystopian scenarios, such as a Chinese-style social credit system
–The Stellar Engine
-Kurzweil’s Age of Spiritual Machines
-Terrance McKenna’s Transcendental Object at the End of Time

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Robert Stark interviews Adem Luz Rienspects

1960's, Adem Luz Rienspects, aesthetics, Arizona, Art, Bronze Age Pervert, Carl Jung, Colin Wilson, counterculture, Culture, Donald Trump, Drugs, High School, Hipsters, humor, Leftism, Literature, Marianne Williamson, Matthew Pegas, Morality, Music, Mythology, Neoplatonism, Occultism, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Race Relations, relationships, Religion, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Rudolf Steiner, Science, Sedona, Sexuality, social capital, Social Isolation, social status, social trust, spirituality, Surrealism, Theosophy, Vaporfornia

Robert “Starkattack” and Matt “Las” Pegas talk to Adem Luz Rienspects. Adem is the author of Mixtape Hyperborea and you can follow him on Twitter/X.

Topics:

-Intro song: Brian is the Most Beautiful by Memo Boy
Adem’s background as a former Marxist and Sam Harris Centrist Liberal, and how he is now politically homeless
-Was Trump surviving an act of God?
-The current online scene that is more open, decentralized, and culturally oriented
-Is Dime Square a cursed brand?
-Adem’s advocacy for a new Hippie movement
-How the Hippies failed to fulfill spiritual perennialism
-Adem’s unique theological view of God
-Our recent trip to Sedona and its spiritual significance
-“Starkattack’s” heroism in Sedona with the power of friendship
-Adem’s positive and mythical experience attending a Walford Steiner School
-How science and spirituality are fundamentally interlinked
–Our experience with and the spiritual attributes of magic mushrooms
-How shrooms transformed Adem into an Aryan
-The effects of using a soundtrack for Mixtape Hyperborea
-The book’s off the wall humor
-Why friends should call each other racial slurs
-The spiritual component of masculinity
-How male social hierarchies are formed
-Whether the tribal village-like environment of HS should be recreated for adults
-The esotericism of nostalgia

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Robert Stark interviews John Arcto about UK Politics & Retro Futurism

1960's, 1980's, 1990's, aesthetics, Alternative Right, Architecture, Art, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Blade Runner, BREXIT, censorship, Conservatives, Corporations, Culture, Cyberpunk, demographics, Diversity, Dubai, Economics, Elections, England, ethnopluralism, Europe, Futurism, Georgism, History, Immigration, IQ, John Arcto, Leftism, Liberalism, London, Los Angeles, Multiculturalism, Nationalism, Neoliberalism, Neon, Nietzsche, Nigel Farage, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Postmodernism, Race Relations, Retro Futurism, Singapore, Skyscrapers, Steampunk, Taxation, Urbanism, Vaporwave, Walt Bismarck, Wealth, Zoning

 

Robert Stark talks to John Arcto, who blogs at The Anglofuturist on substack.

Topics:

-John’s political journey as a former Leftist
-Why John rejects the dissident right and embraces Progressivism Rightism
–What is Anglo Futurism 
-The Right’s elite human capital problem and anti-intellectualism
-The need for a counter-elite
–The July 4th election in the UK
-The Tory Party’s embrace of mass immigration and whether the Party can be reformed
–Nigel Farage’s role as a gatekeeper
-How Brexit has been a total failure and turned young Brits woke
-Why John supports some hybrid of immigration restriction, assimilation, and ethnopluralism
-Why John can’t comprehend how Americans get worked up over Hispanic immigration
-How talking about racial demographics is totally taboo in the UK, but cultural concerns are tolerated
-John’s case for Georgism and rightwing YIMBYism
-Why adopting certain leftwing views is good to appeal to elite human capital
–Why Blade Runner is much less dystopian than our current society
-The movie Her which depicts a future LA that is YIMBY but also very White
-British genres of Retro-Futurism, from the Victorian to post-war era
–Vaporwave as rightwing post-modernism
-Why the present is a uniquely bleak era in British history

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Robert Stark talks to Matt Pegas about The Black Album

1980's, aesthetics, alienation, Alt Center, Art, Bronze Age Pervert, Buddhism, Carl Jung, conformity, Crime, Culture, Curtis Yarvin, David Lynch, Despair, Donald Trump, Dragon Day, education, Ellliot Rodger, Extroversion, Gnosticism, H.P. Lovecraft, Hipsters, Homosexuality, Incels, Introversion, James Nullick, Jeffrey Dahmer, Jordan Peterson, Journey to Vapor Island, Las Vegas, Literature, Los Angeles, Malls, Marianne Williamson, Matthew Pegas, meditation, Mental illness, Michel Houellebecq, Music, Neoliberalism, Neon, Nihilism, Occultism, Personality Types, Philosophy, Pilleater, Politics, Psychology, Radical Center, Religion, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Robert Lindsay, Rudolf Steiner, Serial Killers, Sexuality, spirituality, Spree Shootings, Tarot, The Perfume Nationalist, Traditionalism, Utopia, Vaporfornia, Vaporwave

Robert Stark talks to Matt Pegas about his book, The Black Album. The Black Album is a collection of essays and short stories, both fiction and non-fiction. The book deals with themes, including alienation, masculinity, incels, serial killers, spirituality, alchemy, philosophy and aesthetics.

Topics:
-the inspiration for the title from Joan Didion’s The White Album and the music trope of color-coded albums
-Mass shootings as a metaphysical attack against reality
-The context of Matt writing himself into fictional stories
-Adapting to writing with time limitations
-Matt’s struggles with serial killer OCD and POCD in adolescence
-the gnostic component to psychology and mental illness
-Jefferey Dahmer and the trope that the weird loner is the most dangerous
-the archetype of the Emo
-coping with malaise and dissatisfaction with life
-transcript of a disturbing correspondence involving an online follower
-Matt’s essay, Renaissance of The Ritual
-Foundational thinking over Traditionalism
-A painting of a failed alchemist and why alchemy is legit
-Matt’s experiences with Tarot, transcendental meditation, and esotericism
-Matt’s Essay, David Lynch, Bronze Age Pervert, and the possibility of inner freedom
-Matt’s thought experiment of a based Marianne Williamson or BAPist version of Steiner schools
-Matt’s essay, The Politics of Aesthetics Revisited
-The esoteric significance of Las Vegas
–Revisiting Alt-Centrism
-How Robert and Matt manifested Dime Square in 2018

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Robert Stark is interviewed about Esotericism

aesthetics, Aleister Crowley, Alt Center, American Culture, Ancient Greece, Aristocratic Individualism, Art, Bronze Age Pervert, California, California Jesus, Calvinism, capitalism, Carl Jung, caste, Christianity, Class, Colin Wilson, conformity, Cults, Culture, Curtis Yarvin, David Bowie, democracy, demographics, Depravity, Donald Trump, dreams, Ernst Jünger, ethnopluralism, Ezra Pound, Fascism, Gavin Newsom, Gender, Gnosticism, H.P. Lovecraft, History, Human Bio Diversity, Incels, Journey to Vapor Island, June Lake, Literature, Malls, materialism, Matthew Pegas, meditation, Memes, Monotheism, Morality, Multiculturalism, Music, Mythology, Nature, neo-reaction, Neoplatonism, Occultism, parapsychology, Philosophy, Pilleater, Plato, Politics, Psychology, Radical Center, Religion, Roman Empire, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Sexuality, social status, spirituality, Surrealism, Tarot, Theosophy, Vaporfornia, Vaporwave, Xiu Xiu

Robert Stark is interviewed by Matt Pegas and his co-host Evan, as a simulcast for their Strange Flows podcast.

Topics:
–Colin Wilson’s study of consciousness
-Robert’s art, Substack writings, and novels
-Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism
–Robert’s case for Theosophy
-Robert’s mystical experience at June Lake
-contrasting Neoplatonism and Gnosticism, in their approach to theurgy, aesthetics and the natural world
-can ugly things be beautiful or divine?
-channeling the fire of youth
-revisiting Robert’s first podcast with Matt from 2018
-rediscovering the song, 9pm (Till I Come)
-occultist, genetic, political, and social dynamics to oral acts
-A critique of the moral authoritarianism and lack of pluralism of Abrahamic faiths
-how we should approach occultism
-prediction that America will have another religious revival
–California’s pan-enclavism
-thoughts on neo-reactionary critiques of democracy, the case for proportional inequality, and how to select elites
-the Art Fascist vs the Warrior Fascist

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Robert Stark talks to Constantin von Hoffmeister about Esoteric Trumpism

1950's, aesthetics, Alain de Benoist, Alexander Dugin, Alternative Right, American Culture, Architecture, Art, Beatniks, Brandon Adamson, California, censorship, Cinema, Cities, Class, conformity, Conservatives, Constantin von Hoffmeister, Culture, Daniel Friberg, demographics, Diversity, Donald Trump, Edgar Alan Poe, Elections, Ernst Jünger, Ethno Nationalism, ethnopluralism, Europe, European Nationalism, Germany, Globalization, Guillaume Faye, H.P. Lovecraft, Hipsters, History, Hollywood, horror, Immigration, Jack Kerouac, Joe Biden, Las Vegas, Liberalism, Literature, Los Angeles, Mass Transit, Matthew Pegas, Media, Middle Class, Millennials, Nationalism, Nietzsche, Occultism, Oswald Spengler, Political Correctness, Politics, Postmodernism, Race Relations, Republican Party, Retro Futurism, Russia, Suburbia, Surrealism, the New Right, The Perfume Nationalist, Urbanism, William S. Burroughs, Zoomers

Robert Stark and Matt Pegas speak with Constantin von Hoffmeister about his book Esoteric Trumpism. This is a simulcast with Matt’s New Write podcast. Originally from Germany, Constantin von Hoffmeister studied English Literature and Political Science in New Orleans. Constantin has worked as an author, journalist, translator, editor, and business trainer in the United States, India, Uzbekistan, and Russia, and is the editor in chief of Arktos publishing. Follow Constantin on Twitter and subscribe to his Substack.

Topics:

Literary references, including William S. Burroughs, HP Lovecraft, and Edgar Alan Poe
Misconceptions about the Beatniks as leftwing (eg Jack Kerouac’s admiration of Oswald Spengler)
How the Beats’ disillusionment shows problems with fetishizing 1950s America
Philistinism on the Right and the rise of a new creative culture-focused Right
How America has an underappreciated rich cultural heritage
America as an extension of European civilization
Rightwing Postmodernism
Trump as the great revealer of hidden Lovecraftian horrors
Why Trump’s political significance is primarily symbolic
Addressing criticisms and disappointments with Trump
Meme magic
Why Constantin rejects accelerationism
Why Rightwing multiculturalism or ethnopluralism is the future 
Constantin’s recent meet up with Robert and Matt in LA, and observation that LA is a model for ethnopluralism
Why Constantin is more optimistic about America’s future than Europe’s
Upcoming Arktos projects, including a new translation of Dominque  Venner on Ernst Junger, a rightwing critique of Nietzsche, and an art history book

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Schizo Chat with Salmonfish

4 Chan, aesthetics, Alan Watts, alienation, Alt Center, Alternative Right, American Culture, Ancient Greece, Aristocratic Individualism, Art, Baby Boomers, Banking, Bronze Age Pervert, capitalism, Carl Jung, caste, Christianity, Class, conformity, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, counterculture, Culture, Curtis Yarvin, decentralization, demographics, Depravity, Donald Trump, Drugs, Economics, Elections, Elon Musk, ethnopluralism, Eugenics, Feminism, Gender, Gio Pennacchietti, Globalization, Gnosticism, Hinduism, History, Homosexuality, Human Bio Diversity, Incels, India, Internet, IQ, localism, Managerialism, Marianne Williamson, Memes, Mental illness, Morality, Nationalism, Nature, neo-tribalism, Neoliberalism, Neoplatonism, Nietzsche, Nihilism, Normies, Ohio, Philosophy, Plato, Political Correctness, Politics, Postmodernism, Psychology, Race Relations, Redpill, relationships, Religion, Salmonfish, Sexuality, Sigmund Freud, Social Media, spirituality, Terence Mckenna, Tucker Carlson, Vice

Robert Stark talks with Salmonfish about Bronze Age Pervert, art, metaphysics, philosophy, politics and economics. Salmonfish is a renaissance man, Avant Garde artist, and Passage Prize winner from Ohio. Follow Salmonfish on Twitter/X.

Topics:
Raising memes to an artform
Online political tribes as an American adaption of old-world feudal entitlements
Robert’s article, Selective Breeding And The Birth of Philosophy
The pros and cons of Bronze Age Pervert and Curtis Yarvin
Pan-enclavism
Debate about meritocracy vs caste or proportional inequality
The Artist/Shaman archetype
Intersectionality of the smart but poor
Conspiracy theories as explained by a collective subconscious or conspiracies of instinct
Pioneering work in the treatment of mental illness with psychedelics
How metaphysics, genetics, psychology, and politics intersect
Spiritual science and near death experiences which are legit but often theologically contradict
Salmonfish’s esoteric take on Christianity
Why Dualism is needed in spirituality, psychology, and politics
Disillusionment with Trump/MAGA
Why most politics is sexual
The state of the economy and economic transition (explanation for the Great Reset)

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