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Jonathan Bowden

April 01, 2023

For the footballer, see Jon Bowden.

Jonathan David Anthony Bowden (12 April 1962 – 29 March 2012)[1] was an English painter, novelist, essayist, playwright, actor, orator and activist. Initially a Conservative, he later became involved in far-right[2] organisations such as the British National Party. Bowden has been described as a "cult Internet figure" in the far-right, even after his death.[3]

Life and career

Early life and formal education

Bowden was born in Kent, England, and attended Presentation College in Reading, Berkshire. He described his experience there:

I went to a Catholic school, and they educated me very well. And almost every book in that library was by a dead White European male. And almost everything that one learnt culturally — from the rather gory sort of Grünewald-type crucifixion as you went in, to the Dalí on the wall, the reverse crucifixion scene, in reverse perspective from above, that was next to the assembly point, and to everything else — everything was European.[4]

His mother suffered from severe mental illness,[3] and died when Bowden was 16 years old.

Bowden was largely self-educated.[3] In 1984, he completed one year of a Bachelor of Arts history degree course at Birkbeck College, London University, as a mature student, but left without graduating. He subsequently enrolled at Wolfson College, Cambridge University, in autumn 1988, but left after a few months. He became a personal friend of Bill Hopkins during this time.

Conservative Party

Bowden began his political career as a member of the Conservative Party in the Bethnal Green and Stepney Constituency Association.[citation needed]. In 1990, he joined the Conservative Monday Club, and the following year made an unsuccessful bid to be elected onto its Executive Council. In 1991, he was appointed co-chairman with Stuart Millson of the club's media committee,[5] and was also active in the Western Goals Institute.[6] In 1992, Bowden was expelled from the Monday Club.[7]

Revolutionary Conservative Caucus

Bowden and Stuart Millson co-founded the Revolutionary Conservative Caucus in November 1992[8] with the aim of introducing "abstract thought into the nether reaches of the Conservative and Unionist party".[6] The group published a quarterly journal entitled The Revolutionary Conservative Review. By the end of 1994, Millson and Bowden parted company and the group dissolved.

In 1993, Bowden published the book Right through the European Books Society. He was also reported to be a prominent figure in the creative milieu responsible for the emergence of Right Now! magazine.[9]

Freedom Party

Bowden then joined the Freedom Party, for which he was treasurer for a short time,[10] and subsequently was a member of the Bloomsbury Forum, in company with Adrian Davies.[11]

British National Party

In 2003, Bowden broke with attempts to influence Conservatism and moved into political activity by joining the British National Party (BNP). He was appointed Cultural Officer, a position its leader Nick Griffin created to give Bowden officer status within the organisation. In July 2007, Bowden resigned and left the BNP. Although he resumed public speech-making at BNP organised meetings in the localities away from the party's national events, he never re-joined the party and cut all ties after the May 2010 general election.

Bowden became a popular speaker; many of his speeches are recorded and have been transcribed. Topics of his lectures include: Martin Heidegger, Bill Hopkins & the angry young men, Wyndham Lewis, Robinson Jeffers, historical revisionism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Marxism & the Frankfurt School, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Thomas Carlyle, H. P. Lovecraft, Léon Degrelle, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Maurice Cowling, Stewart Home, Robert E. Howard, Julius Evola, Savitri Devi, T. S. Eliot, feminism, W. B. Yeats, "Tragedy, Horror & the Transcendent", Yukio Mishima, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Punch and Judy, Ezra Pound, Vanguardism, the Soviet Gulag, and Charles Maurras.

In late 2011 and early 2012, Bowden made fourteen appearances on Richard B. Spencer's Vanguard podcast. Spencer re-released the episodes in January 2018 as a series entitled Bowden!. The episode titles are "Essence of the Left", "The Uses and Abuses of Nietzsche", "The European New Right", "Creative Destruction" (libertarianism, anarchy, inequality and Ayn Rand), "Iran, Israel, and The Bomb", "Democracy", "The Feminist Mystique" (an allusion to The Feminine Mystique), "On the Genealogy of Morals", "Frankfurt School Revisionism" (critical theory, cultural Marxism and political correctness), "The Homosexual Question", "The Forgotten War" (Iraq War), "Understanding Spengler", "Politics, Politics" (the 2012 GOP primaries), and "The E Word" (eugenics).

Death

In 2012, Bowden died of heart failure at his home in Berkshire at the age of 49,[1] shortly after being released from the psychiatric ward of a hospital, where he was admitted after suffering a mental breakdown.[3]

Views

The ideas that Bowden held to be true include that some hierarchies are good for society, that "liberalism is moral syphilis" and that native Europeans are justified in asserting their cultural, ethnic, psychological and spiritual hegemony over Europe.[3]

Bowden stated that he believed Liberalism two-dimensional, too materialistic, and "not at all deep", and never chose to become a Marxist because of his belief that life is inherently inegalitarian, and that inequality is inherently good, which Marxists were afraid to admit.[12]

Bowden espoused pagan religious beliefs.[3] He was particularly influenced by Heraclitus, claiming his philosophy was synonymous with Heraclitus' view on energy.[13]

Bibliography

Works

  • Mad (London: Avant-Garde Publishing, 1989); (Nine-Banded Books, 2009) ISBN 978-0578006406
  • Aryan (London: Egotist Press, 1990)
  • Sade (London: Egotist, 1992); (Nine-Banded Books, 2013) ISBN 978-0989697217
  • Brute (Egotist Press, 1992)
  • Skin (London: Egotist Press, 1992)
  • Axe (London: Egotist, 1993); (London: The Palingenesis Project, 2014). ISBN 978-1909606074
  • Craze (London: Egotist Press, 1993) ISBN 1-872181-17-1
  • Right (London: European Books Society 1994); (London: The Palingenesis Project, 2016) ISBN 978-1909606159
  • Collected Works, 6 vols. (London: Avant-guarde, 1995)
  • Standardbearers – British Roots of the New Right, edited by Adrian Davies, Eddy Butler & Jonathan Bowden; Beckenham, Kent, 180pps, (April 1999)
  • Apocalypse TV (London: The Spinning Top Club, 2007). ISBN 978-0-9557402-0-6
  • The Art of Jonathan Bowden (1974–2007) (London: The Spinning Top Club, 2007). ISBN 978-0-9557402-2-0
  • The Fanatical Pursuit of Purity (London: The Spinning Top Club, 2008). ISBN 978-0-9557402-3-7
  • Al-Qa’eda Moth (London: The Spinning Top Club, 2008). ISBN 978-0-9557402-5-1
  • Kratos (London: The Spinning Top Club, 2008). ISBN 978-0-9557402-1-3
  • A Ballet of Wasps (London: The Spinning Top Club, 2008). ISBN 978-0-9557402-6-8
  • Goodbye Homunculus! (London: The Spinning Top Club, 2009). ISBN 978-0-9557402-9-9
  • The Art of Jonathan Bowden, Vol. 2 (1968–1974) (London: The Spinning Top Club, 2009). ISBN 978-0-9557402-4-4
  • Lilith Before Eve (London: The Spinning Top Club, 2009). ISBN 978-0-9557402-8-2
  • Louisiana Half-Face (London: The Spinning Top Club, 2010). ISBN 978-0-9565120-2-4
  • The Art of Jonathan Bowden, Vol. 3 (1967–1974) (London: The Spinning Top Club, 2010). ISBN 978-0-9565120-1-7
  • Our Name Is Legion (London: The Spinning Top Club, 2011). ISBN 978-0-9565120-3-1
  • Colonel Sodom Goes to Gomorrah (London: The Spinning Top Club, 2011). ISBN 978-0-9565120-4-8
  • Locusts Devour a Carcass (London: The Spinning Top Club, 2012). ISBN 978-0-9565120-5-5
  • Spiders Are Not Insects (London: The Spinning Top Club, 2012). ISBN 978-0-9565120-6-2
  • Pulp Fascism (San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2013). ISBN 978-1935965640
  • Western Civilization Bites Back (San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2014). ISBN 978-1935965770
  • Demon (London: The Palingenesis Project, 2014). ISBN 978-1909606043
  • Blood (London: The Palingenesis Project, 2016). ISBN 978-1909606098
  • Heat (London: The Palingenesis Project, 2017). ISBN 978-1909606197
  • Deathlock (London: The Palingenesis Project, 2017). ISBN 978-1909606210
  • Extremists: Studies in Metapolitics (San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2017). ISBN 978-1940933481
  • Why I Am Not a Liberal (Imperium Press, 2020). ISBN 978-0648859307

Filmography

Year Title Starring Credits
2001 (production)

2005 (release)

Venus Flytrap Jonathan Bowden, Lisa Garner, Nicola Henry, Jane Robinson, Katie Willow, Nicole Wiseman and Claudia Minne Boyle Directed by Andrea Lioy

Produced by Jonathan Bowden

Screenplay by Jonathan Bowden & Andrea Lioy

Based upon the short story by Jonathan Bowden

2007 (production/release) Fenris Devours Odin Written & Narrated by Jonathan Bowden
2006 (production)

2009 (release)

Grand Guignol Jonathan Bowden, Nicola Henry, Katie Willow, Michael Woodbridge and Lucy Zara Directed by Andrea Lioy

Produced by Jonathan Bowden

Screenplay by Jonathan Bowden & Andrea Lioy

Based upon the play by Jonathan Bowden[14]

References

  1. ^ a b "Jonathan Bowden 1962-2012". Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
  2. ^ Dickson, EJ (4 November 2019). "So, Uh, Why Is Richard Spencer Still on Twitter?". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Clements, Tom (4 September 2019) "I fell down the rabbit hole of alt-right propaganda and this is what I learned" The Independent
  4. ^ Bowden, Jonathan (23 May 2012). "Credo: A Nietzschean Testament". Counter-Currents. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  5. ^ Monday Club News, July 1991 edition, p.2. – Monday Club Executive Council Minutes, 13 May 1991. This position did not, however, afford Bowden a seat on the Council
  6. ^ a b . Archived from the original on 7 August 2009.
  7. ^ Sonia Gable and Adam Carter, "New Right chairman dies" 21 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Searchlight, 26 April 2012
  8. ^ The Revolutionary Conservative, issue no.2, 1993, p.16.
  9. ^ "ISAR - Right Now! A Forum for Eugenecists". ferris-pages.org.
  10. ^ "::: T h e F r e e d o m P a r t y :::". freedompartyuk.net.
  11. ^ . Archived from the original on 21 February 2009. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  12. ^ The Jonathan Bowden Interview, retrieved 6 March 2023
  13. ^ Credo; A Nietzschean Testament - Jonathan Bowden (Audio Remaster), retrieved 6 March 2023
  14. ^ "Films". The Jonathan Bowden Archive.

External links

 
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  • Jonathan Bowden Archive on YouTube, featuring all known recordings of Bowden's speeches and lectures

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For the footballer see Jon Bowden This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Jonathan Bowden news newspapers books scholar JSTOR July 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Jonathan David Anthony Bowden 12 April 1962 29 March 2012 1 was an English painter novelist essayist playwright actor orator and activist Initially a Conservative he later became involved in far right 2 organisations such as the British National Party Bowden has been described as a cult Internet figure in the far right even after his death 3 Contents 1 Life and career 1 1 Early life and formal education 1 2 Conservative Party 1 3 Revolutionary Conservative Caucus 1 4 Freedom Party 1 5 British National Party 1 6 Death 2 Views 3 Bibliography 3 1 Works 4 Filmography 5 References 6 External linksLife and career EditEarly life and formal education EditBowden was born in Kent England and attended Presentation College in Reading Berkshire He described his experience there I went to a Catholic school and they educated me very well And almost every book in that library was by a dead White European male And almost everything that one learnt culturally from the rather gory sort of Grunewald type crucifixion as you went in to the Dali on the wall the reverse crucifixion scene in reverse perspective from above that was next to the assembly point and to everything else everything was European 4 His mother suffered from severe mental illness 3 and died when Bowden was 16 years old Bowden was largely self educated 3 In 1984 he completed one year of a Bachelor of Arts history degree course at Birkbeck College London University as a mature student but left without graduating He subsequently enrolled at Wolfson College Cambridge University in autumn 1988 but left after a few months He became a personal friend of Bill Hopkins during this time Conservative Party Edit Bowden began his political career as a member of the Conservative Party in the Bethnal Green and Stepney Constituency Association citation needed In 1990 he joined the Conservative Monday Club and the following year made an unsuccessful bid to be elected onto its Executive Council In 1991 he was appointed co chairman with Stuart Millson of the club s media committee 5 and was also active in the Western Goals Institute 6 In 1992 Bowden was expelled from the Monday Club 7 Revolutionary Conservative Caucus Edit Bowden and Stuart Millson co founded the Revolutionary Conservative Caucus in November 1992 8 with the aim of introducing abstract thought into the nether reaches of the Conservative and Unionist party 6 The group published a quarterly journal entitled The Revolutionary Conservative Review By the end of 1994 Millson and Bowden parted company and the group dissolved In 1993 Bowden published the book Right through the European Books Society He was also reported to be a prominent figure in the creative milieu responsible for the emergence of Right Now magazine 9 Freedom Party Edit Bowden then joined the Freedom Party for which he was treasurer for a short time 10 and subsequently was a member of the Bloomsbury Forum in company with Adrian Davies 11 British National Party Edit In 2003 Bowden broke with attempts to influence Conservatism and moved into political activity by joining the British National Party BNP He was appointed Cultural Officer a position its leader Nick Griffin created to give Bowden officer status within the organisation In July 2007 Bowden resigned and left the BNP Although he resumed public speech making at BNP organised meetings in the localities away from the party s national events he never re joined the party and cut all ties after the May 2010 general election Bowden became a popular speaker many of his speeches are recorded and have been transcribed Topics of his lectures include Martin Heidegger Bill Hopkins amp the angry young men Wyndham Lewis Robinson Jeffers historical revisionism Friedrich Nietzsche Marxism amp the Frankfurt School Hans Jurgen Syberberg Thomas Carlyle H P Lovecraft Leon Degrelle Nineteen Eighty Four Maurice Cowling Stewart Home Robert E Howard Julius Evola Savitri Devi T S Eliot feminism W B Yeats Tragedy Horror amp the Transcendent Yukio Mishima Gabriele D Annunzio Punch and Judy Ezra Pound Vanguardism the Soviet Gulag and Charles Maurras In late 2011 and early 2012 Bowden made fourteen appearances on Richard B Spencer s Vanguard podcast Spencer re released the episodes in January 2018 as a series entitled Bowden The episode titles are Essence of the Left The Uses and Abuses of Nietzsche The European New Right Creative Destruction libertarianism anarchy inequality and Ayn Rand Iran Israel and The Bomb Democracy The Feminist Mystique an allusion to The Feminine Mystique On the Genealogy of Morals Frankfurt School Revisionism critical theory cultural Marxism and political correctness The Homosexual Question The Forgotten War Iraq War Understanding Spengler Politics Politics the 2012 GOP primaries and The E Word eugenics Death Edit In 2012 Bowden died of heart failure at his home in Berkshire at the age of 49 1 shortly after being released from the psychiatric ward of a hospital where he was admitted after suffering a mental breakdown 3 Views EditThe ideas that Bowden held to be true include that some hierarchies are good for society that liberalism is moral syphilis and that native Europeans are justified in asserting their cultural ethnic psychological and spiritual hegemony over Europe 3 Bowden stated that he believed Liberalism two dimensional too materialistic and not at all deep and never chose to become a Marxist because of his belief that life is inherently inegalitarian and that inequality is inherently good which Marxists were afraid to admit 12 Bowden espoused pagan religious beliefs 3 He was particularly influenced by Heraclitus claiming his philosophy was synonymous with Heraclitus view on energy 13 Bibliography EditWorks Edit Mad London Avant Garde Publishing 1989 Nine Banded Books 2009 ISBN 978 0578006406 Aryan London Egotist Press 1990 Sade London Egotist 1992 Nine Banded Books 2013 ISBN 978 0989697217 Brute Egotist Press 1992 Skin London Egotist Press 1992 Axe London Egotist 1993 London The Palingenesis Project 2014 ISBN 978 1909606074 Craze London Egotist Press 1993 ISBN 1 872181 17 1 Right London European Books Society 1994 London The Palingenesis Project 2016 ISBN 978 1909606159 Collected Works 6 vols London Avant guarde 1995 Standardbearers British Roots of the New Right edited by Adrian Davies Eddy Butler amp Jonathan Bowden Beckenham Kent 180pps April 1999 Apocalypse TV London The Spinning Top Club 2007 ISBN 978 0 9557402 0 6 The Art of Jonathan Bowden 1974 2007 London The Spinning Top Club 2007 ISBN 978 0 9557402 2 0 The Fanatical Pursuit of Purity London The Spinning Top Club 2008 ISBN 978 0 9557402 3 7 Al Qa eda Moth London The Spinning Top Club 2008 ISBN 978 0 9557402 5 1 Kratos London The Spinning Top Club 2008 ISBN 978 0 9557402 1 3 A Ballet of Wasps London The Spinning Top Club 2008 ISBN 978 0 9557402 6 8 Goodbye Homunculus London The Spinning Top Club 2009 ISBN 978 0 9557402 9 9 The Art of Jonathan Bowden Vol 2 1968 1974 London The Spinning Top Club 2009 ISBN 978 0 9557402 4 4 Lilith Before Eve London The Spinning Top Club 2009 ISBN 978 0 9557402 8 2 Louisiana Half Face London The Spinning Top Club 2010 ISBN 978 0 9565120 2 4 The Art of Jonathan Bowden Vol 3 1967 1974 London The Spinning Top Club 2010 ISBN 978 0 9565120 1 7 Our Name Is Legion London The Spinning Top Club 2011 ISBN 978 0 9565120 3 1 Colonel Sodom Goes to Gomorrah London The Spinning Top Club 2011 ISBN 978 0 9565120 4 8 Locusts Devour a Carcass London The Spinning Top Club 2012 ISBN 978 0 9565120 5 5 Spiders Are Not Insects London The Spinning Top Club 2012 ISBN 978 0 9565120 6 2 Pulp Fascism San Francisco Counter Currents 2013 ISBN 978 1935965640 Western Civilization Bites Back San Francisco Counter Currents 2014 ISBN 978 1935965770 Demon London The Palingenesis Project 2014 ISBN 978 1909606043 Blood London The Palingenesis Project 2016 ISBN 978 1909606098 Heat London The Palingenesis Project 2017 ISBN 978 1909606197 Deathlock London The Palingenesis Project 2017 ISBN 978 1909606210 Extremists Studies in Metapolitics San Francisco Counter Currents 2017 ISBN 978 1940933481 Why I Am Not a Liberal Imperium Press 2020 ISBN 978 0648859307Filmography EditYear Title Starring Credits2001 production 2005 release Venus Flytrap Jonathan Bowden Lisa Garner Nicola Henry Jane Robinson Katie Willow Nicole Wiseman and Claudia Minne Boyle Directed by Andrea Lioy Produced by Jonathan BowdenScreenplay by Jonathan Bowden amp Andrea LioyBased upon the short story by Jonathan Bowden2007 production release Fenris Devours Odin Written amp Narrated by Jonathan Bowden2006 production 2009 release Grand Guignol Jonathan Bowden Nicola Henry Katie Willow Michael Woodbridge and Lucy Zara Directed by Andrea Lioy Produced by Jonathan BowdenScreenplay by Jonathan Bowden amp Andrea LioyBased upon the play by Jonathan Bowden 14 References Edit a b Jonathan Bowden 1962 2012 Archived from the original on 24 June 2013 Retrieved 25 April 2012 Dickson EJ 4 November 2019 So Uh Why Is Richard Spencer Still on Twitter Rolling Stone Retrieved 29 July 2021 a b c d e f Clements Tom 4 September 2019 I fell down the rabbit hole of alt right propaganda and this is what I learned The Independent Bowden Jonathan 23 May 2012 Credo A Nietzschean Testament Counter Currents Retrieved 10 August 2022 Monday Club News July 1991 edition p 2 Monday Club Executive Council Minutes 13 May 1991 This position did not however afford Bowden a seat on the Council a b Interview with Bowden Archived from the original on 7 August 2009 Sonia Gable and Adam Carter New Right chairman dies Archived 21 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine Searchlight 26 April 2012 The Revolutionary Conservative issue no 2 1993 p 16 ISAR Right Now A Forum for Eugenecists ferris pages org T h e F r e e d o m P a r t y freedompartyuk net Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism Archived from the original on 21 February 2009 Retrieved 5 March 2009 The Jonathan Bowden Interview retrieved 6 March 2023 Credo A Nietzschean Testament Jonathan Bowden Audio Remaster retrieved 6 March 2023 Films The Jonathan Bowden Archive External links Edit Wikiquote has quotations related to Jonathan Bowden Official website on the Wayback Machine The Jonathan Bowden Archive BOWDEN on Spreaker Jonathan Bowden Archive on YouTube featuring all known recordings of Bowden s speeches and lectures Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jonathan Bowden amp oldid 1144698130, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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