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« With the help of his local guide, the French anthropologist Pierre Clastres is studying the most remote tribes along the tributaries of the Amazon. The two of them are making a boat trip downstream and back. The river divides tribes which are actively at war with each other. Some of them have never seen other people. On the way back, Clastres and his guide make a stop and are hosted by one of the riverside tribes. From another tribe they’ve brought a batch of a sacred root which has psychotropic effects and is used in local rituals. Rejoicing at this encounter, the tribe decides to arrange a festival. Another tribe, fully armed, comes from out of the depths of the jungle to join. After a whole day of ceremonies, scenes, and rituals, after sunset and by firelight, the men of the two tribes consume the root and arrange a ritual dance with their spears, bows, and knives. Somewhere off to the side, Pierre Clastres is sitting and watching. This is in the 1960s. There are no satellite phones, no telegraph, and no roads. For hundreds of kilometers in every direction, there is only jungle and warring tribes. There is frankly nowhere to run, and in this very moment Clastres is absolutely cut off, excluded from, and lost to his own civilization. No one in the world even knows where he is and whether he is alive. He is in the midst of an archaic ritual, an ecstatic dance of warriors, which has been performed for thousands of years on these shores under the oversight of local spirits. An absolutely modern person has come into contact with the bare nerve of authentic life and under the most direct threat of death. It is difficult to imagine the existential rapture and horror that Pierre experienced that night. This scene from his book The Archaeology of Violence is one of the strongest images and contrasts in anthropology. In relation to our own tradition, we should be not only our own “Pierre Clastres,” but also boldly tear off our shirts, sink our teeth into the root of the spirits, and throw ourselves into the barbaric dance of spears to the music of blades. So that the river’s water might wash away the “traces of modern man” from the shores of our consciousness. » — Askr Svarte, What the Gods Have Left (PRAV Publishing, 2024).

📚 THE EBOOK EDITION IS HERE: Mamleev’s America ❗️The first critical anthology of the American writings of the Russian (oc)cult author and founding father of the Yuzhinsky Circle, Yuri Mamleev. Dare to see your reflection in the Mamleevian black mirror: download your ebook (epub) from PRAV or get the Kindle edition on Amazon (embrace the dark irony!)… Mamleev’s America — available in dust-jacket hardcover, paperback, and ebook editions — is translated, edited, and equipped with an introduction as well as hand-drawn illustrations by Charlie Smith. Brought to you by PRAV Publishing.

“Here the archetype of Odysseus emerges once more: lost amid the elements of history, fire, and steel, yearning nostalgically for a lost homeland and peace. Odysseus is antiquity’s first nostalgic hero. But for modern man there is no Ithaca to return to. European philosophy raises the question that man must rediscover the meaning of life and once again make himself at home in a world to which he has become alien… Perhaps this will be one of the central questions of the Odyssey: the problem of choosing one’s own fate and the meaning of life.”… Check out the latest, timeless, timely writing brought to you by PRAV Perspectives.

'The Police are Looking for Plato': Evola on Trial Just published in Arktos Journal: an extensive excerpt from Andrea Scarabelli’s Julius Evola: An Adventurous Life, this time a detailed account of Evola’s imprisonment and trial in 1951.

In this landmark volume, Alexander Dugin presents a far-ranging panorama of the life, works, and contested legacy of the Italian Traditionalist Julius Evola. The fruit of nearly half a century of engagement with Evola’s works, Dugin’s essays weave together philosophical, esoteric, and biographical perspectives to illuminate key dimensions of the Evolian project. From Evola’s early Dadaist experiments and philosophical writings to his explorations of Tantra, alchemy, and the Holy Grail; from his engagements with the Conservative Revolution and Fascism to his reflections on the “differentiated man” and “riding the tiger” — Dugin re-reads Evola as a phenomenologist of initiation and as a revolutionary forerunner of Traditionalist politics. Situating Evola’s relevance within Russian Traditionalism, the Fourth Political Theory, and the crisis of Postmodernity, Dugin argues that Evola is by no means a figure of the past, but a vital force in the present. Julius Evola: Political Traditionalism is essential reading as an introduction to Evola’s oeuvre, a unique showcase of Dugin’s thought, and a summons to reawaken Traditionalist thinking and action today. Order it now from Arktos

“A Life Lived Against the Grain” Gomery Kimber reviews Andrea Scarabelli’s Julius Evola: An Adventurous Life. “Worldly failure in the age of the Kali-Yuga was always already expected. What mattered was fidelity to principles, the achievement of inner differentiation, and readiness for future cycles. Whether one regards his Tradition as profound wisdom or repulsive reaction, the consistency of the posture commands respect...” Read the full review in Arktos Journal

“The maximum program, however, is to deviate from the straight, doomed path to the grave: “to turn from the grave is to be at war with ourselves.” Ultimately, this means killing one’s ego. Here, the authors arrive at a position that will appeal not only to advocates of political reaction, but also to believers across many faiths. It is something worth living—and dying—for: not to die completely and absurdly, as our positivist world (positivity without hope), our scientistic world (science without ultimate healing), and our rationalized world (local reason amid total meaninglessness) would have us do.” Read the full review in PRAV Perspectives!

We have a special surprise for you on the PRAV Perspectives Substack this week: Our first podcast episode, an interview with Charlie Smith on Yuri Mamleev, the Yuzhinsky Circle, PRAV, and… have a listen and find out!

⌛️The wait is over! NOW AVAILABLE from PRAV Publishing and Arktos: Julius Evola: An Adventurous Life by Andrea Scarabelli 👉🏻768 pages, available in dust-jacket hardcover, paperback, and ebook editions 👉🏻featuring forewords by Alain de Benoist and Jafe Arnold

“The world is entering a new phase: the phase of rhizomatic politics. To understand contemporary politics, we need to learn to think in terms of the rhizome, to incorporate the chaosmos. Post-politics is a world of political spin technologies, a five-second-left-socialist and five-second-right-republican one. Identity changes with the click of a TV remote control, with technology. Only then does the question arise: Who is managing the remote control; who decides to change the slide?” — Daria Platonova Dugina

Alexander Chantsev reviews MAMLEEV’S AMERICA! Read the review Get the book

Alain de Benoist at home with a hearty stack of PRAV and Arktos books. April 2026.

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MAMLEEV’S AMERICA, somewhere in America… Hic sunt dracones.

The wait is over! Mamleev’s America by Yuri Mamleev, translated and edited with an introduction by Charlie Smith, is fresh off the press from PRAV Publishing. Counting 428 pages and 17 hand-drawn illustrations, Mamleev’s America is available in dust-jacket hardcover and paperback (ebook coming soon). Order now from PRAV

Today is supposedly World Book Day... But which world? Which books? What day is it, again? In any case, now’s your chance to grab a copy of The Charlatan by Red Lamb for 40% off (paperback and ebook) from today until next Wednesday. Reader discretion is advised! 👉🏻Check out the latest review of The Charlatan, this time from Germany, on the PRAV Substack: “Confession in an Age of Content”…