John, the hyperlink at "a Jobbik MP called for a “list” of Jews living in Hungary." seems to be broken -- it redirects to a private substack page. Do you mind re-linking to the article?
Absolutely love this series and look forward to the next installment! It's a perfect counterpoint to the right's ahistorical, decontextualized embrace of Orbanism. I do wonder if Carlson, et. al are just trolling everyone with the trip to Hungary, though there's actually no practical difference between trolling and taking an idea seriously on the American right anymore.
Not immediately relevant, but I'd like to put in a word for "Powers of Darkness" ("Makt myrkranna"), the English translation of a weird Icelandic translation of "Dracula" made by a lefty Icelandic nationalist who published it in his own newspaper c.1900. His 'translation' varies widely from the original and includes intimations of an international anti-liberal plot led by Dracula being in the works, switches to an omniscient narrator at one point, and condenses fully two thirds of the book into one-third. I'm not there yet, but something makes me think that railway and shipping timetables are not nearly as prominent as in the original.
I know, it's cheap to associate Hungary with Stoker…the original, though, can be seen as an exercise in the joys and dangers of cosmopolitanism, and, for that matter, of nostalgia.
Does the kitschiness of Orban's Hungary lie in the planned/forced homogeneity or in the nostalgic looking back? Or both? This post made me think about the Midwestern suburb I grew up in, a place that is homogeneous but without any sense of history. Is that kitsch or something else?
John, the hyperlink at "a Jobbik MP called for a “list” of Jews living in Hungary." seems to be broken -- it redirects to a private substack page. Do you mind re-linking to the article?
Absolutely love this series and look forward to the next installment! It's a perfect counterpoint to the right's ahistorical, decontextualized embrace of Orbanism. I do wonder if Carlson, et. al are just trolling everyone with the trip to Hungary, though there's actually no practical difference between trolling and taking an idea seriously on the American right anymore.
Not immediately relevant, but I'd like to put in a word for "Powers of Darkness" ("Makt myrkranna"), the English translation of a weird Icelandic translation of "Dracula" made by a lefty Icelandic nationalist who published it in his own newspaper c.1900. His 'translation' varies widely from the original and includes intimations of an international anti-liberal plot led by Dracula being in the works, switches to an omniscient narrator at one point, and condenses fully two thirds of the book into one-third. I'm not there yet, but something makes me think that railway and shipping timetables are not nearly as prominent as in the original.
I know, it's cheap to associate Hungary with Stoker…the original, though, can be seen as an exercise in the joys and dangers of cosmopolitanism, and, for that matter, of nostalgia.
Does the kitschiness of Orban's Hungary lie in the planned/forced homogeneity or in the nostalgic looking back? Or both? This post made me think about the Midwestern suburb I grew up in, a place that is homogeneous but without any sense of history. Is that kitsch or something else?