#novatore

[autonomoustweekazoid]

[theoptia]

Renzo Novatore, from The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore; translated by Wolfi Landstreicher

Text ID: You still want to go on living on your knees. But I have understood life. / And anyone who understands life cannot live on his knees.

[majestativa]

I should be clear: I possess a heart and a sword, and enjoy being as generous with the one as with the other.

— RENZO NOVATORE ⚜️ The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore, transl. by Wolfi Landstreicher, (2012)

[thedireful]

the resurrection of thought.

[alephskoteinos]

But the Antichrist — the spirit of the most mysterious and profound instinct — calls Life back to himself, shouting barbarically to her: Let’s begin again! And Life begins again! Because it does not want to die. And if Christ symbolizes the weariness of life, the sunset of thought: the death of the idea! The Antichrist symbolizes the instinct of life. He symbolizes the resurrection of thought. The Antichrist is the symbol of a new dawn.

- Renzo Novatore, Towards the Creative Nothing

[yasser-murshid]

Of Individualism and Rebellion

"There are those who maintain that the human being is by nature a social being. Others maintain that the human being is by nature anti-social. Well, I admit that I have never been able to clearly understand what they meant by their “by nature,” but I have understood that both sides are wrong, since the human being is social and anti-social at the same time. Need, want, affection, love and sympathy are the elements that push him toward sociability and union. The craving for independence and the desire for freedom push her toward solitude and individualism. But, while individualism operates and is realized against society, society defends itself from its attacks. The war between “societarianism” and “individualism” is thus a fertile war of vitality and energy. But, while the individual is necessary to society, this in its turn is necessary to him. Individualism couldn’t possibly exist if there was no society against which it could affirm itself and live, expand itself and rejoice."

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Entre los seres humanos sólo el rebelde es la más bella figura y el ser más completo. Él sabe cómo ser la herramienta de su deseante voluntad. Él sabe como obedecerse a sí mismo y dirigirse, para auto preservarse y auto destruirse. Porque el rebelde es el que ha aprendido el secreto de vivir y el arte de morir.

Renzo Novatore.

[unity-of-clarity-and-emptiness]

Spirituality and Anarcho-Nihilism

"And if I call myself an individualist anarchist, an iconoclast and a nihilist, it is precisely because I believe that in these adjectives there is the highest and most complete expression of my willful and reckless individuality that, like an overflowing river, wants to expand, impetuously sweeping away dikes and hedges, until it crashes into a granite boulder, shattering and breaking up in its turn. I do not renounce life. I exalt and sing it." One of my favorite quotes from The Short Text "I am also A Nihilist" Out of the many Anarcho-Nihilist and Stirnir influenced political and philsophical ideas this one really calls to me, as it really does a great job to put into perspective how the world aught to be experienced and viewed from a spiritual perspective. This is also a perfect example, I feel like to point out why politics and Spirituality work so well together.

[intotheclash]

La guerra è passata lavando la storia e l’umanità nel pianto e nel sangue, ma l’epoca è rimasta immutata. Epoca di disfacimento… Il collettivismo è morente e l’individualismo non si è ancora affermato. Nessuno sa ubbidire, nessuno sa comandare. Ma da tutto questo, al saper vivere liberi, c’è ancora di mezzo un abisso. Abisso che potrà essere riempito soltanto col cadavere della schiavitù e quello dell’autorità. La guerra non poteva riempire questo abisso. Poteva soltanto scavarlo più profondo. Ma ciò che la guerra non poteva fare, deve farlo la rivoluzione. La guerra ha reso gli uomini più bestiali e plebei. Più triviali e più brutti! La rivoluzione deve renderli migliori. Deve nobilitarli! Renzo Novatore - Verso il Nulla Creatore

[septemberspectre]

“Any society that you build will have its limits. And outside the limits of any society the unruly and heroic tramps will wander with their wild and virgin thoughts…planning ever new and dreadful outbursts of rebellion.”

Renzo Novatore

[rebatom]

I Am Also a Nihilist

”

I

I am an individualist because I am an anarchist; and I am an anarchist because I am a nihilist. But I also understand nihilism in my own way...

I don’t care whether it is Nordic or Oriental, nor whether or not it has a historical, political, practical tradition, or a theoretical, philosophical, spiritual, intellectual one. I call myself a nihilist because I know that nihilism means negation.

Negation of every society, of every cult, of every rule and of every religion. But I don’t yearn for Nirvana, any more than I long for Schopenhauer’s desperate and powerless pessimism, which is a worse thing than the violent renunciation of life itself. Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.

And if I call myself an individualist anarchist, an iconoclast and a nihilist, it is precisely because I believe that in these adjectives there is the highest and most complete expression of my willful and reckless individuality that, like an overflowing river, wants to expand, impetuously sweeping away dikes and hedges, until it crashes into a granite boulder, shattering and breaking up in its turn. I do not renounce life. I exalt and sing it.

II

Anyone who renounces life because he feels that it is nothing but pain and sorrow and doesn’t find in himself the heroic courage to kill himself is - in my opinion - a grotesque poser and a helpless person; just as one is a pitifully inferior being if he believes that the sacred tree of happiness is a twisted plant on all apes will be able to scramble in the more or less near future, and that then the shadow of pain will be driven away by the phosphorescent fireworks of the true Good...

III

Life - for me - is neither good nor bad, neither a theory nor an idea. Life is a reality, and the reality of life is war. For one who is a born warrior, life is a fountain of joy, for others it is only a fountain of humiliation and sorrow. I no longer demand carefree joy from life. It couldn’t give it to me, and I would no longer know what to do with it now that my adolescence is past...

Instead I demand that it give me the perverse joy of battle that gives me the sorrowful spasms of defeat and the voluptuous thrills of victory.

Defeated in the mud or victorious in the sun, I sing life and I love it!

There is no rest for my rebel spirit except in war, just as there is no greater happiness for my vagabond, negating mind than the uninhibited affirmation of my capacity to life and to rejoice. My every defeat serves me only as symphonic prelude to a new victory.

IV

From the day that I came into the light - through a chance coincidence that I don’t care to go into right now - I carried my own Good and my own Bad with me.

Meaning: my joy and my sorrow, still in embryo. Both advanced with me along the road of time. The more intensely I felt joy, the more deeply I understood sorrow. You can’t suppress the one without suppressing the other.

Now I have smashed down the door and revealed the Sphinx’s riddle. Joy and sorrow are only two liquors with which life merrily gets drunk. Therefore, it is not true that life is a squalid and frightening desert where flowers no longer blossom nor vermilion fruits ripen.

And even the mightiest of all sorrows, the one that drives a strong man toward the conscious and tragic shattering of his own individuality, is only a vigorous manifestation of art and beauty.

And it returns again to the universal human current with the dazzling rays of crime that breaks up and sweeps away all the crystallized reality of the circumscribed world of the many in order to rise toward the ultimate ideal flame and disperse in the endless fire of the new.

V

The revolt of the free one against sorrow is only the intimate, passionate desire for a more intense and greater joy. But the greatest joy can only show itself to him in the mirror of the deepest sorrow, merging with it later in a vast barbaric embrace. And from this vast and fruitful embrace the higher smile of the strong one springs, as, in the midst of conflict, he sings the most thundering hymn to life.

A hymn woven from contempt and scorn, from will and might. A hymn that vibrates and throbs in the light of the sun as it shines on tombs, a hymn that revives the nothing and fills it with sound.

VI

Over Socrates’ slave spirit that stoically accepts death and Diogenes’ free spirit that cynically accepts life, rises the triumphal rainbow on which the sacrilegious crusher of new phantoms, the radical destroyer of every moral world, dances. It is the free one who dances on high amidst the magnificent phosphorescence of the sun.

And when huge clouds of gloomy darkness rise from swampy chasms to hinder his view of the light and block his path, he opens the way with shots from his Browning or stops their course with the flame of his domineering fantasy, forcing them to submit as humble slaves at his feet.

But only the one who knows and practices the iconoclastic fury of destruction can possess the joy born of freedom, of that unique freedom fertilized by sorrow. I rise up against the reality of the outer world for the triumph of the reality of my inner world.

I reject society for the triumph of the I. I reject the stability of every rule, every custom, every morality, for the affirmation of every willful instinct, all free emotionality, every passion and every fantasy. I mock at every duty and every right so I can sing free will.

I scorn the future to suffer and enjoy my good and my bad in the present. I despise humanity because it is not my humanity. I hate tyrants and I detest slaves. I don’t want and I don’t grant solidarity, because I am convinced that it is a new chain, and because I believe with Ibsen that the one who is most alone is the strongest one. This is my Nihilism. Life, for me, is nothing but a heroic poem of joy and perversity written with the bleeding hands of sorrow and pain or a tragic dream of art and beauty!”

… Renzo Novatore

[autonomoustweekazoid]

"We walk in the night,

With a sun in our mind,

And with two huge golden stars,

In our blazing eyes,

We walk..."

-Renzo Novatore

[theoptia]

Renzo Novatore, from The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore; translated by Wolfi Landstreicher

Text ID: Blood requires blood.

[majestativa]

This is the dark hour of my black melancholy.

— RENZO NOVATORE ⚜️ The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore, transl by Wolfi Landstreicher, (2012)

[thedireful]

Remain very suspicious of those who limit themselves to the mere negation of god.

[alephskoteinos]

Defeated in the mud or victorious in the sun, I sing life and I love it!

- Renzo Novatore, I Am Also A Nihilist