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Blood and Ink and The Unabomber

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:13:14 +0000

A thoughtful article from Stanford University News, regarding a translation of “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski’s “Manifesto.”

Unabomber’s writings raise uneasy ethical questions for Stanford scholar
French Professor Jean-Marie Apostolidès finds link between blood and ink in Ted Kaczynski’s “Manifesto” – but should we listen to a killer?
BY CYNTHIA HAVEN
Stanford Report, February 1, 2010

‘Our words have no power’

“It’s the problem of scholars, even artists: Our words have no power. We think we are changing the world – particularly on the left,” he said, and paused. “You accept your symbolic castration – that your writing will take time to have a modest influence on your contemporaries.” In other words, he accepts the compromises necessary to live a normal life, with an income, collegial support, home and family.

Yet Kaczynski’s writings and life have intrigued Apostolidès by emphasizing “the relationship between writing and killing, ink and blood.”

“From a cynical perspective, I write books without killing anyone – my writing will have no impact. The only way I can be listened to is to associate my writing to something.” That is, “either your own blood or someone else’s.”

For instance, he cited Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, whose meticulously planned seppuku in 1970 triggered an avalanche of interest in his works.

Kaczynski is following in these footsteps, rejecting the petit bourgeois alternative that Apostolidès has knowingly embraced and instead “linking blood and ink.”

Yukoku

admin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:34:57 +0000

Submitted to Obamicon.Me by a Mishima admirer.

If any of you readers want to make more Mishima “Obamicons,” I’d be happy to post them here. Just link to them in your comments.

Arise Young Lions

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:01:06 +0000

Arise Young Lions! - Mishima Record

Just found this listing for the ultra-rare Mishima record. Out of my price range, but someone who reads this site should own it…

ARISE YOUNG LIONS ! – Yukio Mishima & Tatenokai

Mishima is Back!

admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:12:50 +0000

Jonathan Meese - Mishima is Back @ Tomio Koyama Gallery

Artist Jonathan Meesepresented a Mishima-related installation at the Tomio Koyama Gallery from 05/Sep/2009 – 03/Oct/2009.

See selected photos from the installation here.

Tomio Koyama Gallery

Jonathan Meese @ CFA

Jonathan Meese @ Wikipedia

click opera – Is Jonathan Meese a fascist?

ru_mishima

admin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:37:37 +0000

There’s a LiveJournal community based in the Russian Federation devoted to Yukio Mishima. I flipped through the posts and they had some Mishima-related content I’d never seen before.

Мисима Юкио

ru_mishima at LiveJournal – http://community.livejournal.com/ru_mishima/

Golgatha – Reflections on Heroism

admin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:53:27 +0000

Several songs on the German ritual-folk band Golgatha’s 2005 “Kydos – Reflections on Heroism” album were dedicated to Yukio Mishima. The songs “Icarus” and “World Serpent” were particularly inspired by Mishima and his “Sun and Steel,” according to Chris from the band.

http://www.ikonenmagazin.de/golgatha/

“Icarus” can be heard on MySpace at:

http://www.myspace.com/schaedelstaette

American Mishima

admin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:31:40 +0000

An American fellow was inspired by Yukio Mishima to study Japanese swordsmanship. He just started a blog titled “American Mishima.”

Mishima mentioned on The Spearhead

admin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:27:48 +0000

I recently wrote a piece for The Spearhead, an online anti-feminist men’s magazine, incorporating Yukio Mishima’s story. In part, I did this to honor the 39th anniversary of Mishima’s hara-kiri last week.

“Here come the herbivores”

http://www.the-spearhead.com/2009/11/22/here-come-the-herbivores/

Through Western Eyes

admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:46:14 +0000

I happened across this excellent essay on revisiting and re-evaluating Mishima’s work.

Jay McInerney: Through Western Eyes

Hagakure – New edition

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:32:09 +0000

I was in Barnes and Noble today and I found a beautiful, hardcover edition of the Hagakure, which Mishima referred to as the “womb of his oeuvre” and wrote his own commentary on. It is bound in bright orange fabric, it’s printed in full color, and it even has a purple ribbon page marker. It’s very reasonably priced, and I almost picked it up–but I highlight my books and it seemed like too nice of an edition for me to own. I am tempted to pick it up for my Mishima bookshelf. Just to have…

The photo on Amazon/B&N doesn’t do it justice. Here’s a link to the publisher, Duncan Baird. Even that doesn’t quite show how nice it is for the money.

http://www.dbp.co.uk/book_preview.asp?b_id=559#