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The white wellness ecosystem, fostering family-friendly ‘white wellbeing’
The Normalisation of the Far-Right

"White nationalism, or any other supremacist or ethno-nationalist movement, usually harkens back to some romanticised idea of the past. The past when [white people] 'had power'. The past when the community 'was pure'. The past, when everything was good."

"Built into that is usually the idea of a romanticisation of more traditional ways of doing things, of escaping from modern society, which is usually described in these communities as degenerate … as unwholesome. So the purity, the return-to-nature found in the wellness movement has an inherent appeal to many groups [including] white nationalists."

"....The wellness industry and white nationalism have a common thread of 'purity' and cleanliness. 'We want to focus on having picnics and outdoor meetings and public events that you can bring your family to, where we see our healthy white children running around and being happy, and other people will look at us and see how great and friendly and family oriented and not scary [we are], and not wearing hoods and not sporting swastikas.'""

"Wellness does play into that, in part, because if you're walling yourself off from the rest of the world, you do need your organic coffee and your bar of soap and your hair tonic and whatnot. And these businesses help to create an economic base."

How white nationalists infiltrated the wellness industry >>
abc.net.au/news/2025-05-22/whi

Soap to supremacy: The rise of white wellness >>
aljazeera.com/features/longfor
#wellness #pure #purity #white #nationalism #ethnonationalism #WhiteSupremacy #FarRight #FamilyFriendly #modernity #subculture #lifestyle #ReturnToNature #BacktotheLand #GranolaNazis

ABC News · How white nationalists infiltrated the wellness industryBy Catherine Zengerer

I've just finished Alfred Döblin's "Berlin Alexanderplatz". In spite of its reputation as a difficult book, it gripped me, and I can quite see why it sold well when it was first published in 1929. I was reminded of John Dos Passos' "Manhattan Transfer" and "USA' trilogy. Read it if you have any interest in modernism, modernity, cities, Berlin, crime, Weimar Germany, the world between the wars...don't read it if you can't deal with stomach churning scenes of violence against women.

My German is not and never will be anywhere good enough to deal with the original text, so I turned to the 1931 translation by Eugene Jolas. This version has been much criticised for its rendering of Berlin working class speech into the colloquial American English of the twenties, but that choice struck the right note with me. The Berlin of the twenties does seem to me much more like Chicago or New York than Paris or London - a city without centuries of history but bursting with the sounds of streetcars, boxing commentators, ads, wisecracks...the sounds of modernity. US English does seem to be the English of the twentieth century city.

I looked at the more recent and widely praised Michael Hofmann translation, which employs a vaguely cockney sounding English - perhaps I am being unfair, because I only read brief extracts, but I found myself thinking of Dick Van Dyke in "Mary Poppins"!

Although the novels that Döblin wrote before "Berlin Alexanderplatz" don't sound like my cup of tea, I would be interested to read his tetralogy "November 1918: A German Revolution". Is a good translation of those books available?

Image: Mario von Bucovich -- Berlin --Kaufhaus Tietz -- Alexanderplatz -- 1928 -- Wikimedia Commons - Public Domain

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Jacques Tati’s “Playtime” is a playful visual treatise on modernity portraying the innate incompatibility between human nature and the Modernist expectations of behavior in space. Almost completely devoid of dialogue, shot on a massive set located near Paris known as Tativille, the film dissects Modernist architecture through one of its epitomes: the office building.

#architecture #jacquestati #modernity #spaces #offices #buildings #tativille

architizer.com/blog/inspiratio

Journal · A Brief Guide to Modern Office Architecture Through the Movies - Architizer JournalThe following six films offer a unique glimpse of the birth of the modern office space and prophesize its inevitable disappearance.

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It needs to be understood that renewable energy is not actually about saving the planet: clearly it will ravage more land and habitats in pursuit of materials. It’s really about preserving modernity in the face of CO2. Let’s be clear on the goal, here, and how ultimately narrow/misguided it is. Which is more valuable—modernity or the ecological health of the planet? Which depends on which?
"""

dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/09/can

dothemath.ucsd.eduCan Modernity Last? | Do the Math
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15. Unknown, Monobloc Chair, 20th Century

In contrast to the LC4 Chaise Longue, the monobloc chair has realized the dream of modernism in design: functional simplicity devoid of ornament, suitable for mass production and adapted to the lives of the modern masses: think how much easier than dragging your LC4 chaise longue across the room of your machine for living it is to carry your stack of monoblocs up the stairs to your apartment rooftop.

Once on that apartment rooftop for a while, however, the problems of modernity start to become evident. Plastic, that most modern of materials, starts to crack and break up in the sunlight. With rain and cloud, mildew begins to grow. You bring them back downstairs, and as children, pets, studded jeans, boxes, and sharp or roughly surfaced objects abrade the sometime virgin smoothness of the polypropylene, grime accumulates, and the pieces become just more of those dirty, depressing plastic chairs dumped by globalization on every inhabited spot on the planet.

Very well, then - let's get rid of them! Easier said than done. They can go in the trash or recycling, but does the plastic ever really go away?

youtu.be/ibb8qCDP550?si=6dOdtf

My walls are my armor\
They shield me from the world\
keeps out the weather,\
the beasts and the stranger\
Inside is a human realm\
Here, it is I who stand at the helm\
Animals, pushed to the outside\
the open and the wild\
Inside, everything is clean\
the absence of dirt glowing with its sheen\

My carriage is my legs\
My castle in miniature\
Through the gates it takes me\
a journey to the outside\

continued: a-blog-with.relevant-informati

a-blog-with.relevant-information.comCastle - Relevant Information A poem about abstraction

Sometimes there's a great synergy between what you're listening to and what pops up on the screen.

Open this #photo (thanks, @Twiteryeanot!): mastodon.social/@Twiteryeanot@

whilst listening to this track (Galperine: This Town Will Burn Before Dawn): youtu.be/5LuvkchnIBk

That's great art right there, no??

mastodon.scotTwiteryeanot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@Twiteryeanot@mastodon.scot)Attached: 1 image I'm slipping.... #photography

‘However, Tati didn’t find modern architecture hideous, he stated ‘if I had been against modern architecture, I would have shown the ugliest buildings, I made it so that no architect could say anything against it, I took the finest I could, these buildings are beautiful’ he wasn’t criticising architecture per se, only its consumerist society, modernist individuals.’

#jacquestati #cinema #architecture #modernity #society
ksamaarchvis.wordpress.com/201

KSA MA Architectural VisualisationAbsurdities of Modernity (in Jaques Tati´s Playtime)Modernism is a very wide term that describes the styles that developed throughout the 20th century across the world. The search for a spirit of the age (every age develops a new expression of colle…