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NIETZSCHE - A CHRONOLOGICAL EXEGESIS OF HIS PUBLISHED WORK: YET ONE MORE (AND NOT YET A FINAL) DIGRESSION ON WAGNER'S MEISTERSINGER

ON THE HOUELLEBECQ OF THE 1990S - SESSION OF 15/08/2026

Since the previous Houllebecq session has already acquired more than two hundred listeners I am uploading a new session in which I attempt to take the argument on a stage or two farther.

ONCE AGAIN ON THE 'QUEEN SACRIFICE' NOTION - PART ONE OF TWO.

I am planning to begin publishing here on Substack, some time during the present month of August, a regular newsletter consisting of short commentaries on so-called “current events” in Europe and around the world.

GUIDANCE NOTES FOR THIRD (AND UPCOMING FOURTH) TALKS ON WAGNER'S MEISTERSINGER VON NUERNBERG

Since the ‘excursus’ from the reading of Nietzsche’s ‘Birth of Tragedy’ consisting in a supplementary analysis of Wagner’s Meistersinger looks like it is now stretching from three into four supplementary sessions, and the underlying argument becoming very complex indeed, I am posting these ‘guidance notes’ as an Ariadne’s Thread for anyone who feels they are getting lost in the labyrinth of my…

NIETZSCHE: A CHRONOLOGICAL EXEGESIS OF HIS PUBLISHED WORKS - PART THREE OF A FOUR-PART EXCURSUS ON WAGNERS MEISTERSINGER VON NUERNBERG

In what may be bad news for some, I proved unable to round off the “excursus” from this lecture-series’ main course - a chapter-by-chapter reading of ‘The Birth of Tragedy’ - even in a third two-hour-plus session.

ON THE HOUELLEBECQ OF THE 1990S - SESSION OF 02/08/26 (ONCE AGAIN ON CARTESIANISM, MECHANICISM, COSMICISM AND TRANS-HUMANISM)

NIETZSCHE: A CHRONOLOGICAL EXEGESIS OF HIS PUBLISHED WORKS - PART TWO OF A THREE-PART DIGRESSION ON WAGNER'S MEISTERSINGER VON NUERNBERG

The Killing of Sister Ann – Last Remarks on the Life and Death of Ann Widdecombe

The low-IQ Drew Pavlou types who make up the overwhelming majority of the Online Right are now running a smaller-scale Britbong version of the Charlie Kirk playbook on the Ann Widdecombe story.

ESSAYS, DRAFTS AND FRAGMENTS FROM THE 'BIO-SECURITARIAN TYRANNY' PERIOD - TWO

§ Since the beginning of my activity on X and Substack early in 2025, a larger and larger proportion of my writing has come to consist in “guidance notes” to orally delivered lectures, some thirty or so of which are now posted on this site.

ESSAYS, DRAFTS AND FRAGMENTS FROM THE 'BIO-SECURITARIAN TYRANNY' PERIOD - ONE

§ Since the beginning of my activity on X and Substack early in 2025, a larger and larger proportion of my writing has come to consist in “guidance notes” to orally delivered lectures, some thirty or so of which are now posted on this site.

HOMER'S ILIAD - REMARKS ON LINES 85 - 200 OF THE SECOND RHAPSODY

THE HOUELLEBECQ OF THE 1990S: SESSION OF 19/07/26

GUIDANCE NOTES TO: NIETZSCHE: A CHRONOLOGICAL EXEGESIS OF HIS PUBLISHED WORKS - PART ONE OF A TWO-PART DIGRESSION ON WAGNER'S 'MEISTERSINGER'

The following guidance notes are for use both with the just-posted first audio part of my digressive commentary on Wagner’s ‘Meistersinger’ and for the second part, which will move on to deal with that Third Act of this music-drama from which Nietzsche actually quotes and with the broader religious and aesthetic-philosophical themes that it articulates.

NIETZSCHE: A CHRONOLOGICAL EXEGESIS OF HIS PUBLISHED WORKS - PART ONE OF A TWO-PART DIGRESSION ON WAGNER'S 'MEISTERSINGER'

The present audio recording is the first part of what looks to be a two-part exposition prompted by Nietzsche’s prima facie somewhat anomalous inclusion of a quotation from ‘Die Meistersinger’ in the description of the Apollonian artist in the first chapter of ‘The Birth of Tragedy’.

EMPIRE OF REGRET - EIGHT

The process that wrested me from my parents’ tutelage, such as it was, and drew me over into that of the educational and child guidance authorities of the suburban London borough to which my father had brought us when I was five was a gradual and, at the beginning, almost an imperceptible one.

SOME SPECULATIVE REMARKS ON THE KILLING OF ANN WIDDECOMBE - POSTSCRIPT

Since this photo keeps turning up in my feed, and since only about 1 in 1000 of you has the IQ, let alone the desire, to read the little essay I posted on this, let me expose myself to international legal pursuits again by saying what I have to say in a simple poast.

SOME SPECULATIVE (AND THEREFORE LIKELY ILLEGAL) REMARKS ON THE KILLING OF ANN WIDDECOMBE

As after the violent death of Charlie Kirk a year ago, a great deal is being made in right-wing online discourse of the rare outbursts of Schadenfreude which the violent death of Ann Widdecombe has elicited from certain extreme-leftists and certain homosexual activists mindful of Widdicombe’s long, unbending opposition to their cause.

NIETZSCHE: A CHRONOLOGICAL EXEGESIS OF HIS PUBLISHED WORKS - GUIDANCE NOTES FOR MATERIAL TO BE PRESENTED IN THE MONTH OF JULY 2026 RELATIVE TO THE FIRST CHAPTER OF 'THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY'

The following material looks like it will be presented in audio form only gradually over the course of the next few weeks.

NIETZSCHE - A CHRONOLOGICAL EXEGESIS OF HIS PUBLISHED WORKS - SECOND SESSION: CHAPTER ONE OF 'THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY'

In today’s audio recording I have tried to push on at least a few lines into the text of the first chapter of ‘The Birth of Tragedy’.

NIETZSCHE: A CHRONOLOGICAL EXEGESIS OF HIS PUBLISHED WORKS FROM 'THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY' TO 'ECCE HOMO'

The present audio recording finally gets underway a project that I announced some time ago and that looks likely to be as interminable in its length as the simultaneously-running ‘Western canon’ project which is still at the stage of commentary on the first books of the first of the epics of Homer: namely, a chronological, line-by-line commentary on all the published works of Nietzsche from 1872…