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Remembering Jonathan Bowden:April 12, 1962–March 29, 2012
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Jonathan David Anthony Bowden was born on April 12, 1962. He died on March 29, 2012, just short of his 50th birthday. Jonathan was a painter, novelist, essayist, playwright, actor, and orator. He was also a friend. His ideas and personality have had a real and permanent impact on my approach to New Right metapolitics. He will be missed, but he will also be remembered and honored.
Jonathan wrote 35 original articles and reviews for Counter-Currents, both under his own name and under the pen name of John Michael McCloughlin. Since his death, we have also published a number of his lectures, lecture transcripts, interviews, and book excerpts. But the best place to begin reading Jonathan is his lecture “Credo: A Nietzschean Testament.”
Books
Pulp Fascism: Right-Wing Themes in Comics, Graphic Novels, and Popular Literature, ed. Greg Johnson (San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2013)
Western Civilization Bites Back, ed. Greg Johnson (San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2014)
Articles and Reviews
- “Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: The Multiple Uses of Greek Tragedy”
- “Arkham Asylum: An Analysis”
- “Batman and the Joker”
- “Bill Hopkins’ The Divine and the Decay”
- “Blind Cyclops: The Strange Case of Doctor Fredric Wertham”
- “Conan the Barbarian and Robert E. Howard”
- “Criminology, Elitism, Nihilism: James Hadley Chase’s No Orchids for Miss Blandish”
- “Doc Savage and Criminology”
- “Eugenics or Dysgenics? Brian Aldiss’ Moreau’s Other Island”
- “Francis Pollini’s Night”
- “Frank Frazetta: The New Arno Breker”
- “George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four”
- “George Steiner’s The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.”
- “H. P. Lovecraft: Aryan Mystic”
- “Hans-Jürgen Syberberg—Leni Riefenstahl’s Heir”
The Hour of the Dragon (Conan the Conqueror), Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
- “The Incredible Hulk”
- “Judge Dredd”
- “Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ”
- “Murnau’s Nosferatu”
- “Opening Pandora’s Box: An Elitist Defense of Modernism”
- “Remembering Bill Hopkins, 1928–2011”
- “Robert E. Howard’s ‘Rogues in the House”
- “Sarban’s The Sound of His Horn”
- “Selected Poems of Bill Hopkins”
- “Stewart Home and Cultural Communism”
- “T. S. Eliot: Ultra-Conservative Dandy”
- “Theseus’ Minotaur: An Examination of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thought”
- “Why I Write”
- “Wyndham Lewis’ The Apes of God”
- “Wyndham Lewis’ Childermass: Black Metal, without the Music”
- “Wyndham Lewis’ Tarr: An Exercise in Right-Wing Psychology”
- “Zeus Hangs Hera at the World’s Edge: Arno Breker and the Pursuit of Perfection”
Lectures and Lecture Transcripts
- “Bill Hopkins and the Angry Young Men”
- “British Sculpture”
- “Colin Wilson and Bill Hopkins”
- “Credo: A Nietzschean Testament” (video) (Swedish translation)
- “Edward Elgar”
- “Ezra Pound”
- “Hans-Jürgen Syberberg: Leni Riefenstahl’s Heir?”
- “H. P. Lovecraft: Aryan Mystic”
- “Julius Evola”
- “Marxism and the Frankfurt School”
- “Pulp Fascism”
- “The Real Meaning of Punch and Judy”
- “Revisionism: Left and Right, Hard and Soft”
- “Robert E. Howard and the Heroic”
- “Robinson Jeffers and the Other America”
- “Thomas Carlyle: The Sage of Chelsea”
- “Tragedy, Horror, and the Transcendent”
- “Western Civilization Bites Back”
- “Wyndham Lewis”
Interviews
- Interview with Jonathan Bowden
- “Jonathan Bowden on Modern Art”
- Jonathan Bowden’s Last Interview, Part 1 Audio, Part 1 Transcript, Part 2 Audio, Part 2 Transcript
- Tom Sunić Interviews Jonathan Bowden, Audio, Transcript
Book Excerpts
- “Classical Modernism and the Art of the Radical Right”
- “The Comic Book as Linear Energy”
- “The Communist Cell at Cambridge University,” Part 1 and Part 2
- “Cultural Communism and the Inegalitarian Basis of All Genuine Art”
- “Marxism and Satanism”
- “Thoughts on Francis Bacon”
- “Thoughts on Samuel Beckett”
- “You Can Never be Too Right-Wing”
About Bowden
- Jef Costello, “Memories of Jonathan Bowden”
- Juleigh Howard-Hobson, “After Bowden’s Credo”
- Greg Johnson, “Jonathan Bowden’s Sade”
- Greg Johnson, “Remembering Jonathan Bowden” (my original obituary)
- Alex Kurtagić, “Jonathan Bowden: Man or Beast?”
- Alex Kurtagić, Review of The Art of Jonathan Bowden, Vol. 1, 1980–2007
- Alex Kurtagić, Review of The Art of Jonathan Bowden, Vol. 2: 1968–1974
- Alex Kurtagić, “Review of Iron Man: The Art of Jonathan Bowden, Vol. 3“
- Ted Sallis, Review of Jonathan Bowden’s Pulp Fascism
- F. C. Stoughton, “Home Remedies for Hitler Hysteria Prescribed by the New Right Avant-Garde”
