Willem de Witte is a philosopher at a think tank funded by one of Europe’s old billionaire families. He comes over to talk about how Kate is captured by demonic forces and to make an erotic confession. We talk about Immanuel Kant, Nietzsche, Nick Land, Elon Musk and the European Garden. A continuation of the ideas in our recent Crisis of Passion talk.
22 minutes. Thursday, October 30, 2025.
Crisis of Passion – We talk about art, weirdness, and the crisis of passion. The Bronze Age Pervert talks about the Christian takeover of Trump’s movement. These Christians blame postmodern culture and memes for Charlie Kirk’s murder. We talk about how pointing at postmodernism and irony becomes a veiled form of censorship, and how there is artistic opportunity in the reconciliation of Christians with the rotting corpse, the stink, the body on the cross. We talk about Mel Gibson, Brechtian theater, the Counter-Reformation, and Bernini’s Theresia trembling in delicious pain.
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A conversation on authenticity in the Liberal vs Christian debate amongst prominent Politicians, Pundits, and Philosophers, some of whom display signs of shame for their evident lack of authenticity, while others can do without it altogether, and in doing so inform a different understanding of the very concept itself.
The film (KIRAC episode 27 and 29) is coming soon. In the meantime, I’ll try to post updates once every two weeks tied loosely to our process, to make you part of the machine we’re building.
We’ve received interesting responses to our talk on the billionaires’ metaphysical quest and have already recorded the next release exploring it further.
Runtime 14 minutes. Release date 2025 september 30 6pm (CEST)
TAGS: D Vance, Anna Khachiyan, Milo Yiannopoulos, Nick Land, New Right, Dissident Right, Red Scare podcast, Accelerationism, Christianity politics, Christian apocalypse, Peter Thiel, Trump trickster, Charlie Kirk, conservative culture, performative politics, cultural criticism, political philosophy, ideology, authenticity, immigrant trauma, auto-orientalism, motherhood and politics, antidepressants vs religion, American decline, cynicism Sloterdijk, Dionysian force, intellectual debate, contemporary philosophy, technology and politics, inhuman future, cultural theory, conservative identity, philosophical dialogue, right-wing culture, Christianity in public life, performative conservatism, decline of Milo Yiannopoulos, JD Vance authenticity, Anna Khachiyan Red Scare, Nick Land accelerationism, apocalypse and technology
KIRAC analyzes this metaphysical struggle: Mars versus the Cross. Where billionaires compete over truth and power.
René Girard
Girard’s scapegoat theory says societies preserve order by directing violence onto a victim. Christianity is decisive because it reveals this mechanism, taking the side of the victim. This revelation is apocalyptic. Thiel uses this to make Christianity the final framework for meaning and power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche distinguished ruler morality — strength, creation, affirmation — from slave morality built on guilt and obedience. He saw Christianity as the victory of slave morality. In this conversation, Musk represents the Apollonian, ruler path of technology and Mars, while Thiel embodies the priestly, ascetic path that demands belief as the condition of rule.
The conversation turns on these frames: Girard’s Christianity-as-apocalypse and Nietzsche’s morality split, showing how Musk and Thiel fight over metaphysical territory — Mars versus the Cross.
Runtime 18 minutes. Release date 2025 september 18 6pm (CEST)
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I am pleased with this conversation. Pierre d’Alancaisez, critic and curator of the art space Verdurin, speaks with us about our upcoming artwork and the theory behind it. Our optimism mirrors his pessimism, which allows us to articulate our stance on power and authority. It is a conversation about a world sliding into a multipolar, authoritarian, post-democratic reality — and what this means for art, for our art.
- Autonomy kills eros- N***** Billionaires and the collapse of meaning without aristocracy- Nietzsche’s artist metaphysics as a path beyond democracy
And for some gossip: at 41:40 we discuss the unforgivable erotic ambush on Daniel Miller, literary editor of IM1776, by Sandra and other KIRAC courtiers.
Runtime: 2h 9m, Release date thursday september 11, 2025
Note: This episode discusses controversial language used in public discourse.
I wrote a text on “ennobling portraiture” when a young man approached me. He turned out to be the son of the famous Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin. What could someone in his position find in my ideas about art, and what could I learn from him, from the other side of the war?
A conversation with Artur Dugin, painter Alexey Bevza, and philosopher Willem de Witte.Dugin is curator of the Moscow avant-garde collective Sovereign Art.
• Arthur's reading of Honeypot• Till Eulenspiegel and the fate of the jester from the 15th century Council of Basel into modernity• Artur’s traditionalism versus KIRAC’s view on the future of art• Who controls reality?• Artur’s metaphysics of the Russian state
Artur Dugin is also known as Dima Khvorostov — Twitter: @KhvorostovDimaAlexey Bevza: @bevzianstvoMonday, August 25, 2025, Runtime 61 minutes
Porkchop Express has read all of Dostoevsky in Russian, including novels, diaries, and the archive. She has an X account where she connects his work to current events and daily life.
The conversation is about freedom and what its function is — for an individual and for a society — when it is no longer treated as a value reserved for, and perverted by, leftist politics.
We talk about Dosto, post-liberal art, ennobling portraiture, sickness and health, motherhood, her posts, death, sacrifice, erotic tension, artistic possession, divine madness.
Ennobling PortraitureA text about the development of a new artistic method and the upcoming film.
Richard Hanania PodcastAn interview with Jini and Ruitenbeek in Los Angeles.
What Peter Vack, the director and writer of Assholes, can learn from Dostoyevski's use of 'supercharacters', how you can make the petty characters that you want to tell stories about, enormous. And Kate's experience at the garden party of Dutch publisher Mai Spijkers.
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Assholes, Peter Vack, Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevski, Raskolnikov, Svidrigailov, Porfiry, Betsey Brown, Jack Dunphy, Dasha Nekrasova, The Scary of Sixty-First, Ryan Trecartin, Psychoanalysis, NYC, Jewish culture, intimacy, Mai Spijkers, Prometheus books
Dasha’s Scary is filled with female characters engaging in lesbian love and some sex with unimpressive male dorks. A dominant, aggressive, male entity is present however, but only in a distant, metaphysical symbolic sense: in the form of Jeffrey Epstein and the mystery that surrounds him. What is the meaning of this? Whilst talking about the film and its quality as a film, Kate and Stefan stumble upon this question and try to answer it.
Some other artist and artworks that come up:
Ryan trecartin, Citizen Kane, Marilyn Monroe, Taxi Driver, Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Taylor, Red Scare, I hate myself:) by Joanna Arnow, Britney spears, Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, Lilya4ever, Easy rider, Blow Up, Kodak 16mm.
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Kate and Stefan talk about Ari Aster's Midsommar
Kate and Stefan discuss Pasolini’s Salò
Kate Sinha and Stefan Ruitenbeek discuss Giannoli's film adaptation of Balzac's novel 'Lost Illusions'
Pulp versus high art, timeless art, city versus rural, Amadeus - Milos Forman, Girls - Lena Dunham, Quentin Tarantino, Philp & Inge van den Hurk.
107 minutes. 2022 june 16
Other topics: Milo Yiannopoulos, Jordan Peterson, Archetypes, Bildung, America versus Europe, Sex, Medea, Lord Byron.