Ezra Pound

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“The Black Carlos”: The story of Italian right-wing terrorist Stefano Delle Chiaie (Part IV: Delle Chiaie’s Revival)

The arrest and subsequent trials in the late 1980s/early 1990s did not change Stefano Delle Chiaie’s worldview. As soon as he was acquitted, he once again tried to assume a…

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6 min

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When Angry Words Become Violent Actions

Violent language — even language that only gestures toward violence — creates its own effects and its own momentum, which it cannot always control. In February 1909, a strange new…

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5 min

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The Narrative of European Civilization within Radical Right Discourse

The idea of European civilisation is repeatedly evoked by a range of different actors within radical right movements in the West. Paradoxically, whilst much of the European radical right is…

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7 min

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The Anti-Democratic Faces of Modernism – Part Two

GUILD SOCIALISM AND ‘POST-LIBERALISM’ Eliot and Pound of course have been attacked for their bad politics; both were close to Hulme, and Hulme and Pound were deeply involved in the…

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6 min

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The Anti-Democratic Faces of Modernism – Part One

As Ronald Bush has pointed out, accounts of the ‘ideological alignment between the oppositional practices of imagism, “anti-democratic” forms of “individualism,” and anarchism’, may ‘[miss] a beat… by not considering…

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3 min

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The Fascist in the Classroom: Teaching Pound, Race and Radical Right Politics

I teach modern literature, and I try and teach it with an eye to the political and social environments out of which it emerges. Two years ago, I introduced some…

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“The Black Carlos”: The story of Italian right-wing terrorist Stefano Delle Chiaie (Part IV: Delle Chiaie’s Revival)

When Angry Words Become Violent Actions

The Narrative of European Civilization within Radical Right Discourse

The Anti-Democratic Faces of Modernism – Part Two

The Anti-Democratic Faces of Modernism – Part One

The Fascist in the Classroom: Teaching Pound, Race and Radical Right Politics

Pandemic Poses Radicalization Risks For Children

On the comparative study of denialism and conspiracy theories

CARR MA in Terrorism, Security and Radical Right Extremism

The Atlanta Shootings Reveal A Blind Spot In Far-Right Studies

From street to state: How radical nationalists gained power in Poland