phf: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2026-02-09#1117905 << i followed dugin on x for a bit, it's not very good. he's doing on of those preacher pulpit accounts "foo is bad! repent! foo is fully discreted now!" etc.
dulapbot: Logged on 2026-02-09 12:56:36 phf: so i've seen dugin in person a bunch, back when he, limonov and letov were running national bolshevik party, and at an apartment party once of that same circle. i wouldn't be able to say how his views changed since then, because i have only vague idea of what the views were back then, and, tbh what they are now. but my point is "we were cooking in the same broth", maybe separated by age. so if i were to do a christian revival, mine
phf: my best guess would be he's fully leaned into the role of a spokesman for some kind of position and ideology, and all he's doing is mining happenings for support. rather dull
phf: kind of hard to glimpse what the man is all about by walking half way on his fire and brimstone sermon, but i'm looking at logs on what has been said about dugin, and my impression is that it's kind of hard to pinpoint his views in general. maybe one needs to commit to duginology, but i tried reading his recent writings, in ru, and my take is that he's an evola flavored umberto eco
phf: that is he's known and remembered by an occasional pithy thought, maybe not too insightful, but sufficiently transgressive to provide shock value
dulapbot: Logged on 2022-03-18 22:39:21 thimbronion: Attempts to tie Trump/Dugin to "chaos magic"
dulapbot: (pest) 2024-04-30 billymg[asciilifeform]: i found this short Aleksandr Dugin / Tucker interview interesting. his thesis seems to be that all this transgender/transhumanism stuff in the west is the result of liberalism ad absurdum. the individual freed from the church, then free from the nation, then free from his own
dulapbot: (pest) 2024-05-01 signpost[asciilifeform]: dugin seemed pretty reasonable / unremarkable in the interview. I'm completely ignorant re: his views otherwise.
phf: some western duginologist doing interview on subj at meduza (i'm slopmaxxing here) says dugin is guenon with orthodoxy instead of orient. and his value to moscow is that he's a softpower export to the trad western ultraright