Book Club From Hell

A classic of anarcho-communist theory, The Conquest of Bread (1892) is not merely the original breadpost, but also outlines how an anarchist revolution can be successful, the problems with Marxism, the problems with pre-Kropotkinite anarchism, why wages are always bad, and the wonders of intensive farming. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-...

"If nature is unjust, change nature!" So concludes Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation (2014), a manifesto by Laboria Cuboniks, an international feminist collective. Railing against injustice masquerading as the natural order of things, Xenofeminism presents a tech-enabled, be-anyone vision of the future, and a tentative roadmap for how to get there. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has publish...

Global homogenisation must be resisted. The nation state can best do this. Nationalism supports the nation state. Bodybuilding supports nationalism. Raw eggs support bodybuilding. Therefore raw eggs resist global homogenisation. A culinary call-to-arms, Raw Egg Nationalism in Theory and Practice (2020) not only contains enough BAPcore Twitter philosophical motivation to get you into the kitchen, b...

Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, one whose influence on psychiatry, psychology, art and more remains significant today. A compilation of essays, first published in 1933, Modern Man in Search of a Soul represents Jung's attempt to explain why Europeans and Americans felt so empty and adrift in the 20th century, a state which persists today. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has p...

The Aeonic Futurist Manifesto, published in 2020, is a high-speed collision of white nationalism, Hitlerism, Italian Futurism and amphetamine. 99% form, 1% (prescription) substance. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671 Jack's website: www...

Looksmax.org is a gathering place for, you guessed it, looksmaxxers. And what is a looksmaxxer? Someone who believes that your looks completely determine almost everything in your life: success with women, finances, opportunities, the list is almost endless. Given this first principle, it makes sense that you'd try plenty of drastic things to improve your looks: steroids, surgery, jelquing. This e...

Storm of Steel, written by Ernst Jünger and first published in 1920, is based on the author's experiences of World War I. It is, at once, a deeply disturbing, but also strangely beautiful and ambivalent description of one of the deadliest conflicts in human history. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_s...

Curtis Yarvin, neo-reactionary blogger extraordinaire, developed the concept of 'the cathedral,' a merging of journalism and academia that has captured key positions in Western society. We read his 2021 blog post 'A Brief Explanation of the Cathedral' to see what all the fuss is about. A Brief Explanation of the Cathedral https://graymirror.substack.com/p/a-brief-explanation-of-the-cathedral Vipra...

'Glaciers, gender, and science: A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research' is an academic paper, first published in 2016 in Progress in Human Geography. The title of this paper says more about it than any description I could give. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesh...

This is our second episode about The Sovereign Individual, an impassioned paean about freedom from government. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Masticate (the band): https://masticate.bandcamp.com/album/power-through-bloodshed https://open.spotify.com/artist/7IGCjYU2yCFoY339yLQiwL?si=3rdLU5a1SGic6in9lFfjjw https://masticate-store.creator-spring.com/  Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazo...

Beloved by Bitcoin maxis, The Sovereign Individual (1997) is a book which details the collapse of nation states and rise of a self-sovereign, extranational class of optimised individuals. The cause of all this? Microprocessors. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.appl...

In 2017, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay wrote a hoax gender studies paper named 'The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct.' This paper was published in the pay-to-publish journal Cogent Social Sciences which, at least according to the paper's authors, demonstrated that the field of gender studies wasn't rigorous and shouldn't be taken seriously. The fact that they could pay a shabby academic...

" Crash is, hands-down, the most repulsive book I've yet to come across." So said a book reviewer in The New York Times. Published in 1973 to widespread critical revulsion, Crash is a book about the relationship between humans and their technology, the role of symbols and simulation. These themes are explored through the metaphor of people crashing their cars and having sex with their wounds. I ex...

Heaven's Gate is the second-deadliest cult in US history. In 1997, 39 of them killed themselves in Santa Fe, California, while wearing Nikes, which I'm sure the Nike PR department really appreciated. Their aim was to catch a ride on the Hale-Bopp comet, which was actually a spaceship of light, sent by 'The Next Level', an interdimensional organisation which you definitely want to be part of. The c...

I'm tired of people talking about metaphorical witch hunts. Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, Inquisitors and authors of this episode's book, had a much better idea. The Malleus Maleficarum (translated as 'The Hammer of the Witches) is a witchhunting manual, first published in 1486, in part because Kramer led an unsuccessful Inquisition in Innsbruck, where he was prevented from condemning a numb...

Objectivism: you know it's true because it's objective. It's right there in the name, buddy. Atlas Shrugged (published 1957) is Ayn Rand's magnum opus, a 1,200-page novel which details her philosophy of objectivism using characters like a pirate who hates income tax, a railroad magnate who is turned on by rationality, a superhero banker who loves the gold standard, a playboy billionaire who shoots...

Want to find out where the word 'sadism' comes from? The Marquis de Sade was a French sex maniac who, in 1785 began work on The 120 Days of Sodom while imprisoned in the Bastille. The work remains unfinished, and only found a publisher in 1904, repeatedly rejected because of its graphic depictions of paedophilia, necrophilia, rape of every variety, torture and murder. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Ja...

The Nation of Islam, despite its name, might not be the most Islamic organisation in the world. Elijah Muhammad, one of the Nation of Islam's leaders, collected the conversations he had with Fard Muhammad, the organisation's founder and self-proclaimed embodiment of Allah. One of the fruits of his labour was Yakub: The Father of Mankind, published in 2002. The subject of this book? The origin of t...

Originally published in 2004, 'Can Life Prevail?' is a collection of essays by the Finnish deep ecologist and eco-fascist Pentti Linkola. If mainstream environmentalism doesn't have enough genocide, fatphobia and Finnish waterfowl for your tastes, then Mr Linkola might just make a greenie of you yet. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-B...

The Earth is flat, and the documentary 'Level' proves it. Published by Hibbeler Productions in 2021 and narrated by flat-Earth superstar Eric Dubay, Level is a non-stop assault of facts and logic, supplied by household names such as ODD TV, Dave Murphy, Tanner Stewart, Johnny Giampapa, Eddie Bravo and my personal favourite, Santos Bonacci. Levi sat this episode out, so Jack is joined by the famed...

Sun and Steel  is the best metaphysical justification for bodybuilding. There's nothing else that comes close. Written by Yukio Mishima and published in 1968, it details Mishima's transition from a weak-bodied explorer of his own internal world, to a de-individuated beautiful body. Two years after publication, Mishima launched an abortive coup in his native Japan, committing seppuku upon its failu...

This episode is a continuation of Alexander Dugin's 'The Fourth Political Theory'. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671 Jack's website: www.jackbc.me Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com www.thebookclubfromhell.com Our Patreon: www.patreon...

In addition to reading other people's work, sometimes I produce my own. In this episode, I (Jack) read out a short story I wrote a while ago. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671 Jack's website: www.jackbc.me Levi's website: www.levioutlo...

American Psycho: chances are, you've seen the film and know plenty of Patrick Bateman quotes. But have you read the book? Published in 1991 and written by Bret Easton Ellis, this novel is an extremely funny satire of modern consumerism, as well as being stomach-churningly disgusting in many places. Levi sat this episode out, and Ed stepped in to fill his shoes. As Ed has watched the American Psych...

Alexander Dugin is a Russian political philosopher who may or may not have President Vladimir Putin's ear. A longtime advocate for invading Ukraine, Dugin's book 'The Fourth Political Theory' (2009) offers a Heideggerian framework for developing an alternative political theory to liberalism, one in which American global hegemony will be undermined, Dasein will become the historical subject, multil...