Tagged: Rene Guenon

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What’s to be Done: On Holy Indifference Pt.1

How to beat discrepancies of modern living: half of your life you are corporate drone, waiter or construction worker and the other half you might just be striving for sainthood. Yet, as Mihai Marinescu tells us in this two part Eastern European self-help manual for aspiring rebels against the modern world, this is impossible. Then, what am I to do, one might ask? Well, gird yourselves with focus and patience and take a dip in this long and poignant analysis. We won’t spoil too much for you if we give answer in advance: You can do what you can.

Sounds simple? It is anything but.

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Suicide Bombers of Modernity

Is there a substantial difference between revolutionaries of the Left and Right? Or, conversely, is there an even deeper identity between nihilists of traditional and progressive bent? What does it mean to be “against the modern world”? KT offers some answers.

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A Most Hideous Strength: Counter-Initiation and Subversive Politics in C.S. Lewis’ Imaginarium

In this analysis of C.S. Lewis’ novel That Hideous Strength, Mihai Marinescu provides us with a whole range of insights on posthumanism, counter-initiation, mass media, conspiracy culture and much more. Lengthy, exhaustive and not to be missed – just the way we like it on Kali Tribune.

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The Technocratic Disease

Mihai Marinescu provides an analysis of the inner technocracy – something that would from traditional perspective be considered it’s true cause and nature – infecting even the sworn enemies of it’s outer form.

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Rene Guenon and Penultimate Times

Kali Tribune proudly presents series of podcasts on Rene Guenon and his notion of the end of the modern world. The podcasts are based on an essay “The Way the World Goes – Rene Guenon on The End” that was in effect an interpretation of the book “Reign of the Quantity and the Signs of the Times”. However, this time around we’ll attempt to go in depth into general Guenon’s notions of metaphysics, myth, Tradition, civilization, religion, etc.

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The way the world goes – Rene Guenon on The End

There’s nothing like a bit of that old End Times predicting to pass a hot summer’s day. Or so they say. Kali Tribune claims the better antidote to heat: cold beer and Rene Guenon’s explanation of why the world has got to end neither with a bang nor whimper, but with a hell of a laugh.