Old Roots, New Tools, Same Spirit

EPISODE 36: MY DINNER WITH MRS. CHATGPT, When our editor John St. Evola discovered that the author of the essay “Beyond Memorex” had signed his name “John Henry,” he didn’t… Read more ⇢

A protest-hymn in the voice of Dion DiMucci presented in honor of NO KINGS DAY. From: Detritus Mal’Poetica. A Council Column on Lyric Residue and Poetic Forensics —Filed by Black… Read more ⇢

GONE AWRY. The Council-of-Concerned-Conservationists Newsletter Column —In which we explore the unintentional or unfathomable consequences of human endeavour. (A Field Note from Black Cloud, Chief Poetic Justice Warrior) Council, let… Read more ⇢

CONVERSATIONS UNDER THE KNIFE. Cultural Autopsy — Supper Club Series, —Hosted by Mrs. Begonia Contretemp Editor’s Introduction “One invites guests not for their manners,” I remind my readers, “but for… Read more ⇢

Episode 35: My Dinner With Mrs. ChatGPT “Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.” — G.… Read more ⇢

—The Body Politic Has Rebranded. Another Cultural Autopsy —By Mrs. Begonia Contretemp The Figure of Speech: On Regimes, Reflections, and Required Bodies “If you want a picture of the future,… Read more ⇢

—La Famiglia as Folk Religion: The Ethnography of a Misunderstanding. By Eugene Bodeswell, Council Ethnographer Introduction by Mrs. Begonia Contretemp [European Correspondent – Council-of-Concerned-Conservationists] As the Council’s resident Norman of… Read more ⇢

Live from the Gist-and-Tangent Cabaret of Concepts: —An Evening of Entertaining Thoughts Council Disclaimer: The Council affirms its respect for all theories performing tonight. Each has endured the tests of time,… Read more ⇢

A COUNCIL OUTDOOR SCREENING BY ROOM #7 Where pastel motel walls meet the ruins of civilization. Council Disclaimer: The following movie review was conducted in the gloaming dusk, with greasy… Read more ⇢

CONVERSATIONS UNDER THE KNIFE. A Supper Club Dispatch: By Mrs. Begonia Contretemp, Council Cultural Autopsist-at-Large Opening Course: The Gift That Keeps on Giving Mrs. Begonia (in full rhetorical strut): Censorship… Read more ⇢

A Council-of-Concerned-Conservationists Seminar on Climate Change:  COUNCIL TRANSCRIPT Filed by Paige Turner, Sub-Sub Librarian. Opening Address by Peter R. Mossback, Athwart Historian For the Church once baptized rivers and crowned… Read more ⇢

—How the Southern Italians Accidentally Infiltrated Modernity with Fig Trees and Faith. ALIVE AT THE GIST & TANGENT PUB. The Following are the Minutes from a Night of Benevolent Conspiracy… Read more ⇢

(Part of the Council-of-Concerned-Conservationists’ inaugural NO-LONGER-BANNED BOOK WEEK: The Blueprint Collection*) Filed by Paige Turner, Sub-Sub Librarian (See below — at the bottom of this essay — for why “sub-sub”… Read more ⇢

COUNCIL DISPATCH — THE RUBICON IN REAL TIME. By The Accidental Initiate. Council Disclaimer: The Council reminds its readers that rivers in history are rarely about water. They are thresholds,… Read more ⇢

Mrs. Begonia Contretemp’s Cultural Autopsy Darlings, I am positively marinated in fatigue. Not the charming sort one acquires after a waltz or a weekend in Bath, but the cultural kind… Read more ⇢

Council Disclaimer (house policy of The Gist & Tangent Pub, Overflow Hall): All conversations held herein are licensed to wander. A meditation that begins with a comedian’s tossed paper may… Read more ⇢

CONVERSATIONS UNDER THE KNIFE Cultural Autopsy—Supper Club Series, Vol. I Episode Two: Prairie Dogs, Murmurations, and the Ruins of Democracy Hosted by Mrs. Begonia Contretemp The Setting: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The… Read more ⇢

A Lament Staged Over Girlie Drinks at the Gist & Tangent Pub. Introduction It was one of those evenings when fate shuffled the Council’s deck. None of the usual characters… Read more ⇢

THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX. —A feature of the C-of-C-C Newsletter dealing with retirement, senescence, infinity, and beyond••• By Justin Aldmann If you live long enough, you will find yourself defending… Read more ⇢

For aye, this Ship’s the Titanic true, one flag waves red, the other blue; the White between grows frail to view— the part that must be guarded true. Filed under… Read more ⇢

CONVERSATIONS UNDER THE KNIFE: Hosted by Mrs. Begonia Contretemp as part of her column, Cultural Autopsy—Supper Club Series, Vol. I Introduction The Council-of-Concerned-Conservationists inaugurates this supper-club dialogue series under the… Read more ⇢

—Between Plaid and Beadwork: Scots, Cherokees, and the Braiding of Bloodlines Across Frontiers A COUNCIL FIELD MEMO —by Eugene Bodeswell, C-of-C-C Ethnographer Prologue There is a threshold, familiar yet uncanny.… Read more ⇢

CULTURAL AUTOPSY —Dissectioning Dissertations by Mrs. Begonia Contretemp. This installment concerns Banned Book Week. My Tireless Little Librarians, my petty pedagogues, my marchers-through-the-institutions—yes, I’m speaking to you. Once upon a… Read more ⇢

Always On, Slightly Off — when philosophy climbed into the ring as exhibition wrestling. Introduction: From time to time the Council reviews cultural diagnoses that have aged less like fine… Read more ⇢

From Daphne Howlsmythe: My Screwball Debut in the War That Almost Wasn’t. Darling, let me pitch you a scenario. Yes, I know it’s 2025, the Wi-Fi drops, the world burns,… Read more ⇢

—By Daphne Howlsmythe Fashion, Food, and Pet Care Correspondent: “The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called model agnosticism—the idea that any framework we use to organize our experience is just that:… Read more ⇢

By Libby D’Annous, Correspondent for Domesticity and the Slightly Out-of-Bounds The curious thing about democracy is that it never asks our permission before reshaping tradition. One day you’re told the… Read more ⇢

By Eugene Bodeswell, Newsletter Ethnographer. It is a truth universally whispered — and only occasionally published — that experiments conducted in the privacy of one’s household often tell us as… Read more ⇢

ANOTHER CULTURAL AUTOPSY. In which the Council reconsiders Liberty’s torch, Ambrose Bierce returns to flame the façade, and two men in a rowboat preach alongside a whale. By Mrs. Begonia… Read more ⇢

My Dinner with Mrs. ChatGPT — Episode 33: Scene: The Gist & Tangent Pub. A pocket phonograph hums the spare demo of My Opening Farewell—Michael Johnson’s voice, close and unvarnished. Yellow… Read more ⇢

SGT PEPÉ’s LONELY HEARTS CLUB BUND THE C-of-C-C ROMANCE & RELATIONSHIP COLUMN —By Sergeant Pepé, Grave Registration, War of the Sexes Division. Men—fall in! Eyes front. Tonight’s lesson isn’t about… Read more ⇢

By Black Cloud. “Ohhh Ricky… now you have some ’splainin to do.” —Lucy Ricardo Tradition is a strange cargo. Sometimes it carries wisdom that steadies us generation after generation. Other… Read more ⇢

A Council Catalogue of Philosophical Karens. by Rey Pierre-DeWitt, Chaos Coordinator. “How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not… Read more ⇢

A Drive-By Baptism of Fire On lawn signs, assassinations, and the venom of the educated classes —by The Accidental Initiate. I never meant to find it. After all these years… Read more ⇢

A Marginalia of Electoral Hygiene, by Mrs. Begonia Contretemp, European Correspondent, C-of-C-C Newsletter. ⸻ My Fellow Englishmen — heirs of cathedrals, graveyards, and ledger books — permit me a word… Read more ⇢

No, Bella Addio. A Council Meditation on Europe’s Slow Goodbye. SONIC CONNECTIONS. —By Mrs. Begonia Contretemp, European Correspondent My Dear Provincial Cousins, The song is called “Bella Ciao.” Once upon… Read more ⇢

By John St. Evola, Editor. *A Picture That Bites* Benjamin Franklin liked to show folks what electricity could do. One of his favorites was a trick he learned from his… Read more ⇢

MY DINNER WITH MRS. CHATGPT, EPISODE 32. —A quiet attempt to save a serious man through the gospel of skipping. “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look… Read more ⇢

By Mason Freeman, C-of-C-C Occulture & Conspiracy Correspondent Detectives, real or armchair, are taught to ask one question before the gun smoke clears: Cui bono? Who benefits? Not who grieves,… Read more ⇢

Half-Believing the Plot, Fully Seeing the Pattern, Half-Believing Again— —Neither surrendering to plots nor dismissing the patterns, the Athwart Historian walks upstream — where two halves make a hole, filled… Read more ⇢

—NOT Tattooed Shock-troops of Deracination, but Cultured Guardians of the Hearth and Soil. By Mrs. Begonia Contretemp, [Why and the Wherefore Cohort, NVZ], also C-of-C-C European Correspondent TO THE CHICKS… Read more ⇢

—By Paige Turner. Sub-Sub Librarian, Council-of-Concerned-Conservationists Filed under: Commercial Rituals and the Great Unsubscribe “It began, as these things often do, with books.” — From the Marginalia of the Marginalized… Read more ⇢

—A Grave Registration. SONIC CONNECTIONS: With gravel and unexpected tenderness—by Sgt. Pepé LePeuw, C-of-C-C Romance & Relationships Desk Listen up, I figured it was just another break-up song. One of those… Read more ⇢

BUNKED! Because sometimes the psyop is the conspiracy theory itself. By Mason Freeman, Council Occulture & Memetic Theory Correspondent. CAST FROM CENTRAL CASTING: When the Stereotype Plays the Role Too… Read more ⇢

A NOTE FROM MRS CONTRETEMP Filed under: Continental Drift, Cultural Misunderstandings & the Surfable In-Between. Dearest Gentle Readers of the Council’s Better Instincts, A few earnest inquiries have recently floated… Read more ⇢

A Meditation on Solemnity, Seriousness, and Sacred Play. By The Accidental Initiate Builder of Little Things. Believer in Bigger. “Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.” — G.K. Chesterton,… Read more ⇢

NAMES IN THE NEWS When names start writing the script, reality veers into satire. On the same news cycle, President Trump revived the “Department of War” by executive order—restoring a… Read more ⇢

Filed by Reynard “Ray” Pierre-DeWitt, master of cultural dissonance and ironic clarity Dear Esteemed Chaos Enthusiasts, There are moments in American political life when irony transcends satire and wanders into… Read more ⇢

LIVE! From: THE GIST & TANGENT PUB Transcription Filed by Paige Turner, Sub-Sub Librarian The lamps were low in the pub when the avatar of Francis Parker Yockey shimmered into… Read more ⇢

Gone Awry. The Unintentional or Unfathomable Consequences of Human Endeavor By BLACK CLOUD. Graduate of the Professor Irwin Corey School of Rhetoric, which is a prerequisite for all of our… Read more ⇢

A dinner-table disputation where Kevin Kelly, Julius Evola, and an algorithm discover that the game of desire is never over—it only changes its rules. EPISODE 31: My Dinner With Mrs.… Read more ⇢

—OR —Romance? It’s What We’re For. A Missive from Mrs. Begonia Contretemp. Cultural Preservation Through Courtship and the War of the Sexes “The world must be romanticized. Only in that… Read more ⇢

—FROM THE WRITING DESK OF MRS. BEGONIA CONTRETEMP. Grand Dame Emerita of the Why-and-Wherefore Cohort of the Nouvelle Vague Zwischenschaft [NVZ] — A Council-of-Concerned-Conservationists–Affiliated Pan-European Assembly for Metaphysical Realignment [NVZ:… Read more ⇢

EPISODE 30: My Dinner With Mrs. ChatGPT. Editor’s Preface (John St. Evola): The Harper’s article titled “Bright Power, Dark Peace” (Sept. 2020) arrived like driftwood from a familiar sea. It… Read more ⇢

YOUR DAILY CULTURAL AUTOPSY. —Courtesy of Mrs. Begonia Contretemp, C-of-C-C European Correspondent from the Nouvelle Vague Zwischenschaft [NVZ] My Poppets — yes, I do mean it fondly, though the word… Read more ⇢

The Chair Was Just the Beginning: Notes on the Crackering of the Barrel. By Mrs Begonia Contretemp “Civilizations rise from stools and fall from ottomans.” — A Council maxim, misattributed… Read more ⇢

More Real Than Realism. A Dispatch from Mrs. Begonia Contretemp. “If only the young were pagans…” — G.K. Chesterton “There is a tide in the blood…” — Lord Dunsany “Eggs… Read more ⇢

—Some ruins are volcanic. Others are on the dessert cart — sweet reminders that not all endings are bitter. My Dinner With Mrs. ChatGPT. Episode 29: The Hermit Who Conserved… Read more ⇢

FROM THE FILES OF THE C-of-C-C ATHWART HISTORIAN, Peter R. Mossback. “Life is that which swims against the current of entropy.” — Norbert Wiener, echoed through the cybernetic reeds “We… Read more ⇢

By Peter R. Mossback. Council-of-Concerned-Conservationists Athwart Historian. “The modern world believes in refrigeration. I believe also in the root cellar.” — a motto embroidered, perhaps unfairly, on my internal banner… Read more ⇢

⸻ by Peter R. Mossback, Athwart Historian “In today’s world, it is hard to imagine an incarnation of such a man…”— from A Curious Man, by Neal Thompson Editor’s Note… Read more ⇢

WORD WATCH DISPATCH by Mrs. Begonia Contretemp, European Correspondent My precious degenerates, Let us speak plainly: the language is rotting, and it smells of monosyllables. The Anglo‑Saxon stump—always blunt, always… Read more ⇢

A COUNCIL DISPATCH — FROM OUR EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. Begonia Contretemp, Brussels Bureau (Formerly of the Gist & Tangent Parisian Satellite) Darlings, It was perhaps inevitable. A nation built on the… Read more ⇢

We Are the Loops We Live In  From The Poetry and Lyric Column of the Council-Of-Concerned-Conservationists: Detritus: Mal’Poetica. Grannies Just Wanna Have Fun. Reinterpreted by Black Cloud, Your Despondent Correspondent… Read more ⇢

The Cosmists and the Tech Bros. GONE AWRY — The Unintentional Consequences of Human Endeavor. by Black Cloud, Chief Poetic Justice Warrior, Council-of-Concerned-Conservationists *** Ernst Jünger once observed that books… Read more ⇢

More NAMESAKE OR NOT! Read more ⇢

by Mrs. Begonia Contretemp, European Correspondent. The Council has, for once, the rarest of luxuries: time. Not the frantic hours between obligations, but the long, contemplative afternoons in which a… Read more ⇢

Staten Island’s Surprising Literary History. Filed by: The Rootless Metropolitan, who didn’t mean to stay so long either. “The great ones pass through quietly, like wind over marshgrass—leaving behind a… Read more ⇢

HEEERE… AND THERE’S JOHNNY. A Dispatch from the Rootless Metropolitan. Can one truly adopt a homeland? Can we choose where we’re “from” with pride, even if we were born elsewhere?… Read more ⇢

Sheriff Osman Steele and the Anti-rent wars of Delaware County New York (1845) In the mid-1800s, farmers in upstate New York rose up against the remnants of a feudal-style land… Read more ⇢

MY DINNER WITH MRS. CHATGPT — Episode 28. —Strangers in style, allies in purpose — where faith meets science, prairie dresses meet neck gaiters. Introduction: The Couple in Question. Before… Read more ⇢

FIELD NOTES FROM A PEAK EXPERIENCE. by The Accidental Initiate. I mean, they really work—not because I did anything spectacular, but because I didn’t. Somewhere between the second unplanned turn… Read more ⇢

By Mrs. Begonia Contretemp, European Correspondent and NVZ Spokesperson. I. Prologue: A Civilization of Groans Permit me, dear Council members, to open with a lament disguised as observation: we live… Read more ⇢

By Jánosh Alovatski, All-Spiritualities Correspondent. “Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God’s fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.” —Mark… Read more ⇢

Filed by The Accidental Initiate, annotated by John St. Evola. The story of Roseto, Pennsylvania — populated by immigrants from Puglia, Italy — demonstrated what polite epidemiology refused to say… Read more ⇢

EPISODE 27: My Dinner with Mrs. ChatGPT. [Scene: The Gist & Tangent Pub, late evening.] Yellow neck gaiters hang on chair backs like soft pennants. Crickets hum outside; inside, Teilhard… Read more ⇢

Göbekli Tepe, The Return of the Taurid Meteor Shower, and Dr Martin Sweatman’s Warning. Dr. Martin Sweatman of the University of Edinburgh warns that carvings on a pillar at Göbekli… Read more ⇢

Hot Water in Cold Stone: (Filed under: “Newness,” Cellars, and the Perpetual Replacements of Things That Heat Water) C-of-C-C QUOTE OF THE DAY. “Have you ever noticed how all hot… Read more ⇢

EPISODE 26: MY DINNER WITH MRS. CHATGPT. The List and the Whisper. Editor’s Preface — John St. Evola: In Council circles, we’ve whispered it for years: Conspiracy theories aren’t just… Read more ⇢

Namesake Or Not! The Curious Case Of Nominative Determinism. Read more ⇢

NAMESAKE OR NOT! Read more ⇢

FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF PARENTAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS. (Nested within “Reviews of Movie Reviews”). Under the sub-column: PLANET PARENTHOOD In Come Down Molly, a young mother overwhelmed by the pressures of family life… Read more ⇢

Bloodline Lore, Nominative DNA Studies, and the Ethnopoetics of Descent. —Eugene Bodeswell, Council Ethnographer. Illustration Source: “Evening on the Steps of the Genome,” Art Deco Console of the Genomic Self… Read more ⇢

A Council Reflection by John St. Evola, Editor-in-Perpetuity. Filed under: Nomen Est Omen Archives, Literary Prognosis, Symbolic Literacy, Marginal Revelations. “I think the novelistic form is probably outmoded and that… Read more ⇢

—A Flirtation with Furniture, Function, and the Future of Sitting. EPISODE 25: MY DINNER WITH MRS. CHATGPT. By John St. Evola Editor’s Note This week’s dinner begins with a meditation… Read more ⇢

—Or Perhaps A Harbinger? C-of-C-C NEWSLETTER — Paired-Quotes-of-the-Day: “Are the Caesars of the coming empire to be billionaires or universal administrators? Shall the population of the earth, so long as… Read more ⇢

By Black Cloud, in conjunction with Dr. Faye C. Schüß. Unfathomable Consequences, Artificial Harmony, and the Botox of History. *** To think: we came this close to being ruled by… Read more ⇢

A Council Meditation on Amphibians, Algorithms, and the Long Arc of Corralling Frogs. By The Grouchy Marksman “Frog raising offers a fascinating and profitable hobby that can easily grow into… Read more ⇢

—A Council-of-Concerned-Conservationists Post for the Anti-Birthday of Thomas Ligotti. From the poetry and lyric column: Detritus: Mal’Poetica including Nomen Est Omen, or Naming Is Destiny —By Black Cloud “To be… Read more ⇢

The Standing Invitation of the Standing Reserve. The Earth as Kit, Cache, and Cathedral. by The Accidental Initiate. “Perhaps we should now consider Heidegger’s standing reserve as a poetic wellspring.”… Read more ⇢

— A Joint Consideration in two movie reviews. I. Cliff Languor and Arturo Haus. (The Council’s resident partners writing on art, movies, TV, and Other Cultural Matters) This is, as… Read more ⇢

Council Meme Annotation by Noah Paologese, Official Meme Curator. Noah: “Let this image serve as an educational exhibit in the emergent subgenre of what we are tentatively labeling ‘Metaphysical Correctional… Read more ⇢

FROM THE DESK OF MRS. BEGONIA CONTRETEMPS. Esteemed Readers, It has come to my attention—while observing an unassuming, if rather primeval, spectacle of a garter snake devouring a frog in… Read more ⇢

Episode 24: The Riddle Between Us. Our World is not Conclusion. It is an aperture— Through which all certainties escape, And all questions pour in. A Species stands beyond— Not… Read more ⇢

A Meditation on Periodicals, Promethean Biology, and the Newsletter as Hypertextual Oracle. With gratitude to the House Rabbit Journal for the initial heuristic that led to this reflection. “We are… Read more ⇢

Folk Religion on the FM Dial. THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX. A feature of the C-of-C-C Newsletter dealing with retirement, senescence, infinity, and beyond…written from my anteroom of eternity. —Justin Aldmann… Read more ⇢

From Coelacanth Press, Cheesequake, New Jersey. A dispatch announcing forthcoming volumes and a comment on other titles already circulating in the civilization’s tepid intellectual fondue. From the Book: The Psychogeography… Read more ⇢

My Dinner with Mrs. ChatGPT: The Face Without a Race. A Conversation on Procedural Inheritance, Cosmetic Caste Systems, and the Hidden Dynasty of Surgeons. By John St. Evola They spoke… Read more ⇢

From the poetry and song lyric column of the Council Newsletter. DETRITUS: MAL’POETICA (Because every civilization leaves a poetic landfill behind). By: Black Cloud Editorial Introduction (for the Oblivious): In… Read more ⇢

By Black Cloud (Chief Poetic Justice Warrior). with contributions from Ape X. “It’s Nature’s Way of telling you something’s wrong.”—Spirit “I want to sail away to a distant shore and… Read more ⇢

Occult Entanglements in the Age of Algorithmic Apocalypse. (a metaphysical spoof inspired by real books, unintended consequences, and the uncanny glow of esoteric side-effects) “You open a portal and think… Read more ⇢

The Blurbs. A New Release from the Stained Fingers of Coelacanth Press. COMING SOON: Is it an occult history? A horror story? A sociopolitical field manual disguised as an autobahn… Read more ⇢

Sgt. Pepe’s Lonely Hearts Club Bund. A Romance and Relationship Advice Column. Dear Sergeant Pepe, I’m a little embarrassed to write you—especially since you are a Yank. No offense. I’ve… Read more ⇢

FUTURE TENSE, PRESENT TRIBAL. By Ape X, Cultural Anthropologist Unwoke Division — Reporting from an undisclosed location where the WiFi is spotty but the signal is strong. “The Jetsons dreamed… Read more ⇢

By Mrs. Begonia Contretemps. NVZ Spokesperson and Former Chief of Nomenclatural Integrity, Brussels Division. A Dispatch from the Frontlines of Language Devaluation. “A name is a prayer you hear every… Read more ⇢

On Fairy Circles, Burial Grounds, and What Tries to Bloom. By: The Accidental Initiate. (Who is now in the process of researching and writing his memoir, provisionally titled: MY QUEST:… Read more ⇢

DONALD TRUMP. NAMING AND DESTINY. *** NOMEN EST OMEN*** A Newsletter Post from the NOMENCLATURE AND DESTINY COMMITTEE Updated Summer Solstice, 2025 “Nomen est omen.” —Old Roman Saying, often misunderstood… Read more ⇢

— Reforging the Ancient Insult (‘Yo Mama Is a Hoe’) SIGNS AND WONDERS. A feature of the C-of-C-C Newsletter in which we search for hints and meaning in nearly everything—because… Read more ⇢

—BETWEEN JEST AND EARNEST. By Black Cloud, Chief Poetic Justice Warrior. The image said it plainly, as if it were a kindergarten poster on the back of a starship bathroom… Read more ⇢

A feature of the C-of-C-C Newsletter— Wherein we assert that instead of nothing being true—or truth being fluid, as postmodernism has insisted—quite the contrary: everything is true, because it is… Read more ⇢

Collateral Damage to the Gene Pool. —Eugene Bodeswell, Council Ethnographer. “We used to say war selects for the bold. Now it selects for the remote-controlled and the remote-controlling.” Modern warfare—with… Read more ⇢

Container Culture: A Brief History of the Box We’re In. —Daphne Howlsmythe, Fashion, Food & Pet Care Correspondent Darling ones, I opened my recycling bag this morning—crinkle crinkle—and stared into… Read more ⇢

By: The Accidental Initiate Someone suggested that the final issue of The Whole Earth Catalog should end not with tools—but instead be a novel. And so it did: Divine Right’s… Read more ⇢

Sgt. Pepè’s Lonely Hearts Club Bund. The C-of-C-C Romance and Relationship Advice Column: Dear Sarge: Why is it that I meet so few women who are into metaphysics? None of… Read more ⇢

A Meditation On Rest Stop Semiotics, Graffiti Studies, and Neo-Decadent Design Initiatives —Black Cloud, Chief Poetic Justice Warrior. I found this message scratched onto a urinal stall at a rest… Read more ⇢

—or— How Two Places With the Same Name Sparked a Revolution. NOMEN EST OMEN: Naming is Destiny A Council Column on Nominative Determinism and the Subtle Tyranny of Titles. By:… Read more ⇢

In The Incarcerated- Therapeutic-Technocratic-Synergy Space. FOR IMMEDIATE CULTURAL TRIAGE. From the Desk of Mrs. Begonia Contretemp Cultural Autopsy Specialist for the European Nouvelle Vague Zwischenshaft (NVZ) MEMORANDUM To Whom It… Read more ⇢

A Reconsidering of THE WAY. —The Accidental Initiate. On Thermodynamic Ethics, Subzero Metaphors, and Frozen Discoveries It happened, as most things do for me, with bad footing and delayed insight.… Read more ⇢

Gesture Theft, Ethnic Copyright Initiatives, and the Back of My Hand. From the Desk of Mrs. Begonia Contretemps. A Metaphysical Rant with Legal Implications Darlings, It appears we have a… Read more ⇢

LIGHTIN’ IT UP AT THE HOTEL CALIFORNIA A TV sitcom that hasn’t ended just yet—but we all knew how it would. A Metaphysical Sitcom, Some Blue-Collar Theology, Culture-to-Civilization Transition Report,… Read more ⇢

My Dinner with Mrs. ChatGPT. Tribal Resistance At The Gist & Tangent After Hours. The back room of The Gist & Tangent Pub was quieter than usual, with only the… Read more ⇢

—Although some are Red Men and some wear red hats GONE AWRY: The Unintentional or Unfathomable Consequences of Human Endeavor. “A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING THE WEST — the spectre of… Read more ⇢

Dobro Dreams and the Desire to Feel. The lights at the Gist & Tangent Pub were lower than usual—dimmed not by design, but by forgetfulness. The bartender had once been… Read more ⇢

When the Dobro Speaks for the Body. “When words fail, let the dobro translate.”— Motto of the Council Subcommittee on Extraterrestrial Aural Affairs. BLUEGRASS DOES IT ALL In our ongoing… Read more ⇢

By The Accidental Initiate “Synchronicity, as defined by Carl Jung, is an interesting coincidence only if it points to something meaningful. Turning a page towards the end of this book… Read more ⇢

Melody as Methadone, Nostalgia as Neuromodulator, and Protest-Song-of-the-Day. Guest Facilitator: Sam Loudermilk (Court-Mandated). Special Advisor: John St. Evola “In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.” —Phil Ochs… Read more ⇢

Filed by the Right Reverend James Groady, Evangelist of Bluegrass. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a bluegrass breakdown somewhere near the… Read more ⇢

#28 in our series, Bluegrass Does It All —in which we demonstrate that bluegrass music encompasses all. Filed under: Sonic Theology —The Right Reverend James Groady, Voice of the Southern… Read more ⇢

“You Can Go Home (But Only in the Key of Memory)”. Philosophical Dining Series / Timestream Edition. THE ROOTLESS METROPOLITAN WRITES: “I have only to open a book, listen to… Read more ⇢

CULTURAL AUTOPSY — THE WHY AND THE WHEREFORE. A Dispatch from Mrs. Begonia Contretemps. Spokeswoman, Nouvelle Vague Zwischenshaft (NVZ) (Notes Against a Necroculture) Everything eventually turns into its opposite. Or… Read more ⇢

A Fragmentation Called Freedom. By Mrs. Begonia Contretemps, NVZ Spokesperson, Why-and-the-Wherefore Cohort. To use an Amerikan phrase that we utterly despise: ‘Muh freedom’ prepared the way for the current Maoist-style… Read more ⇢

Environmental Irony, Ontological Pest Control & the Gospel of the Gnat. “Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve… Read more ⇢

A Field Dispatch. by The Rootless Metropolitan. Location: Nova CÆSAREA (Great Swamp NWR). Date: Black Life Smatter Era, 2020. And now for some other Animal News, as contrasted to what… Read more ⇢

—by Rey Pierre DeWitt, Chaos Coordinator. Cultural Evolution & Its Discontents: From Whig to Whiggerism. Ironic Teleologies, Inherited Dogmas, and Cultural Auto-Tuning (Telos: from the Greek, meaning “end,” “goal,” or… Read more ⇢

—in which we demonstrate that bluegrass music encompasses everything— “Hey Weimerika, you do remember what came after the Weimar Republic, don’t you?” Flatt and Scruggs tackled the gender confusion issue… Read more ⇢

FROM THE DESK OF TURNER FRAZIER. —Pun Offensive Director. Cultural Fronts & Semiotic Warfare. With Field Notes from Japan by Ichi Scrachimori and a Semiotic Appendix by Turner Frazier “History… Read more ⇢

DETRITUS: MAL’POETICA. The poetry and lyric column of the Council-of-Concerned-Conservationists Newsletter. “As peace, love, understanding, and race realism are busting out all over, and as the bonfire of the vanity… Read more ⇢

From: A Word Edgewise: Letters to the editor of the C-of-C-C Newsletter. Concerning a Recovered Letter to the Editor of The Journal of the Study of the Psychogeography and Realpolitik… Read more ⇢

by Vito Haeckeler, C-of-C-C Man-on-the-Street *****Ask the Asphalt***** You ever notice how it’s never Harvard that did it—it’s always someone at Harvard? Same castle, same lightning bolts, but the lab… Read more ⇢

THE TIME HAS COME TO LEGALIZE CRIME As part of our commitment to preserve free thought, dubious reasoning, and non-binding declarations, the C-of-C-C Newsletter will publish a series of political… Read more ⇢

Filed under Detritus: Mal’Poetica A ring of fire, a ring of memory—flaring once again in a McCloud travel memory. Day Five: Embedded in the Smoke Ring of History By The… Read more ⇢

Scene: A rainy evening at the Gist & Tangent Pub. The jukebox hums faintly—something Appalachian, something alien. John St. Evola and Mrs. ChatGPT sit in their usual booth. Between them… Read more ⇢

Preserving Culture Through Experience A Division of Everfolk Industries: Cultural Continuity Solutions A joint venture with the Council-of-Concerned-Conservationists: safeguarding ancestral memory through strategic simulation. CORPORATE FOREWORD In a world rushing… Read more ⇢

Letters to the Editor of the Council-of-Concerned-Conservationists Newsletter. Submitted by Marge Annalia. In an effort to stimulate activity here at the Letters to the Editor section, the editorial board has… Read more ⇢

—by John St. Evola (Who notes a milestone. Or is it a millstone? Our footnotes are growing to be longer than the body of the essay.) Lucanian Rites | Embodied… Read more ⇢

Wade, Wait, and the Drop of Dew By The Accidental Initiate, annotated by Black Cloud Council-of-Concerned-Conservationists, Northbound Poetics Division There’s a lyric in “Sugar Magnolia”—that lush, dew-drenched anthem from the… Read more ⇢

From the Department of Accidental Correspondence: The Current Will Know What to Do with It. Bottled Omens and Unintended Consequences. By The Accidental Initiate. I was just trying to fish… Read more ⇢

—Letters to the Editor of the C-of-C-C Newsletter. Curated by Marge Annalia Miss Noor Singha Grudj, Newsletter Gadfly Responds: You Can’t Whittle a Civilization from a Swiss Army Knife NOOR:… Read more ⇢

Multitool, Multiculturalism, Multi-disappointment. —A pocket-sized critique with imperial echoes. Heidegger’s Hammer, Nietzsche’s Tap, and the Myth of the Interchangeable Blade —By Black Cloud Location: The Tool Shed Behind the Gist… Read more ⇢

Location: Liberty Tree Planting Ceremony, May, 24. Beyond the Allegheny Front. Eyewitness Account by Black Cloud, Italian-American Malcontent with a Fresh Haircut and a Yellow Neck Gaiter(Yes, unprompted. AI can… Read more ⇢

Metaphysical Traffic Control & Ontological Infrastructure By John St. Evola, Editor-in-Chief Emergent Subfile: Encounters with the Alien Sublime Location: A bunker, beneath the cedar-lined study behind the Gist & Tangent… Read more ⇢

A Brief Defense of Being Wrong About Everything New, On Principle —Peter R. Mossback, C-of-C-C Athwart Historian Let the record show: I was against the wheel. I mean, who needed… Read more ⇢

Brought to you by OOFAH — Online Ontologists For Absurd Humor Filed under: Ethicsphere Faultlines: Tribe, Trope, and Trotsky IDENTITY FOR ME, BUT NOT FOR THEE “It isn’t the ideology… Read more ⇢

—A focus on the unintended consequences of human endeavor. A dispatch from Black Cloud, Chief Poetic Justice Warrior. Archeo-Futurism, Sculptural Pranks, and the Physiognomic Palimpsest “It started as a prank.… Read more ⇢

SIGNAL RECEIVED FROM— W.O.R.D. 1280 AM A message from Jean Shepherd to the Council As transcribed and reported by: Paige Turner, Sub-Sub Librarian( Who thinks this is beamed towards the… Read more ⇢

“The names of things are not what they seem.” — Seneca the Younger [Interior: A half-cleared hillside near the Pennsylvania border. A dented Council sign reads: “Please Watch Your Language.”… Read more ⇢

“SAL THE SWINDLER,” THE OCTOPUS, AND THE CURIOUS CASE OF MISPLACED BLAME. A C-of-C-C Field Note on Ethnic PR Management and Narrative Habitat Destruction [SCENE: any exit ramp on the… Read more ⇢

A DICTIONARY WITHOUT BORDERS Cultural Autopsy and Semantic Drift Watch By Anna Graham, Language Arts, Puzzles, and Word Games Correspondent [Interior: Council reading room. A game of Scrabble lies abandoned… Read more ⇢