Seeking Submissions for Nationalist Lit Journal

Is this the kind of journal that if I were to contribute something it would forever tarnish my reputation?
I may consider sending in something under a pseudonym.

Since they describe themselves as right wing nationals, are named after an assassin, and we have no idea what the editor board is composed of or what other works this may attract, I'd say pseudonym would be your best bet.

Note: I was not speaking for the mag, just an user who chimed in.

More precisely, named after a visionary and prophets whose actions spoke louder than words.

Huh, it's actually real.

otoya.org/

That said, the name and cover iconography is edgy, to say the least.

>That said, the name and cover iconography is edgy, to say the least
Yeah, they should have went with Garibaldi instead if they wanted a nationalist icon.

They could have picked Mishima if they wanted a Japanese nationalist who was actually a writer.
Which would make sense for a literary journal.

This feels like some IRC channel LARPing as a journal and publishing whatever is serviceable. Without excerpts, readership, or information about the editorial board it doesn't seem worth my time or reputation to tie my name to.
He was a right wing assassin. The user was asking if it would hurt his reputation to be published in the journal and whole you might see him as a martyr, most everyone else sees him as an ideological killer.

Neat journal. Will submit

$25 for poems, $75 for longer pieces.

We only print our work but we are working on updating the website and will put some work up there. Our readership count is small right now; we had 200 copies printed in our initial volume but expect some upcoming media coverage to help us with that.

That is true, but there are about a thousand English-language lit journals, and we have this territory on our own.

If you want to publish under a pseudonym, that's fine.

> no idea what the editor board is composed of

Forgive me, I didn't make clear our website is at Otoya dot org, my email address is submissions @ otoya dot org, and I am the editor, Matt Braynard. Very google-able.

I was personally touched by Otoya Yamaguchi's courage and sacrifice on behalf of his nation, especially at such a young age. I believed that deserved a memorial.

>you might see him as a martyr, most everyone else sees him as an ideological killer.

And it's a fine means of self-screening: If it's the former, your work belongs with our publication.

which "nation" ?

>$25 for poems, $75 for longer pieces.
How will you pay?

>right-wing nationalism

So, you just accept pretty much only works by white Anglos that push your agenda?

National Socialism is becoming more popular among Chinese netizens, it works well with Daoism.

le ostracism bait
In what sense was he a visionary, user?
>And it's a fine means of self-screening: If it's the former, your work belongs with our publication.
I doubt every thoughtful nationalist would find his action laudable, impressive or something to condone. You are self-limiting your contributors to imagination-zealots impressed by aesthetic deeds. As if nationalism - a very vast political category - should really just be left to paltry internet romantics.

aren't you supposed to be dead by now Jello

Political assassinations and terrorism, school/mass shootings are all visionary works of art.

>N word
>Feminism
>Liberalism
It's hilarious how the left has shaped the amerishart political discourse to the point where their supposed political adversaries don't have an actual political narrative themselves and instead resort to responding to whatever (non-)issue is currently en vogue. The entire political philosophy of the american right can be summed up with two words: "muh left".

>he isn't a neoreactionary
lmao

Any nation's traditional, patriotic nationalism that opposes postmodernism.

>white Anglos
Yes, like the one we are named after and put on our cover.

>Neat journal. Will submit
Look forward to seeing your work!

>How will you pay?
Our funding comes from the foundation that publishes us, Look Ahead America.

But why do you oppose nationalism to postmodernism as some sort of dichotomy? What do you understand by "postmodernism"?

>Look Ahead America
>implying the journal isn't just about burger nationalism

>Look Ahead America
>only publishes neo-reactionary think pieces without original discourse
What did they mean by this?

>But why do you oppose nationalism to postmodernism as some sort of dichotomy? What do you understand by "postmodernism"?

There are a few weapons against postmodernist philosophy, and the most effective at this point in time is nationalism.

I would distill postmodernism down to: "if it feels good, do it," or, "if it feels good, it's right."

You might have different ideas about that, but I' not here to debate the value of the journal, etc. This isn't the place for it. I'm here to solicit submissions.

I can't articulate how impressed I was with what we put out in our first issue. This was published as extension of the MFA program at Columbia and even the poets there who strongly disagreed with our mission were impressed with the work we published.

I mean, kudos on your publication, man. I know from experience that publishing a journal is no easy business and that it takes time, dedication, and resources, things that are not as readily available as some would think. But the whole thing, even if well made, just seems ideologically weak, precisely because of your silly dichotomy and understanding of postmodernism. From that I would suppose that your understanding of nationalism is based on a sense of masculinity and duty or some shit that is repeated to no end by brainlet chads and virgins in an attempt to justify their brainlethood and middle-class comfort. Of course I may be wrong, and my opinion obviously does not demerit your work or your ideology, but that's the vibe I get from this.

Anyway, I hope you get past the second number and that this project my grow and become even critical of itself in order to grow more. Even if I don't agree with it, it's always good to have discenting opinions getting a space to be heard and discussed. Even if they are as memey as this or its left counterpart (The Atlantic et al)

>I would distill postmodernism down to: "if it feels good, do it," or, "if it feels good, it's right."

>I would distill postmodernism down to: "if it feels good, do it," or, "if it feels good, it's right."
What's it like being a brainlet?

How SAD! do you have to be to defend post-modernism, now in 2018?!

>in opposition to post-modernism

so this is a great way to let everyone know that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, and, on top of that, you don't have the rigor or the integrity to understand those concepts that you claim to situate yourself against

I know that sounds a little harsh, but you sound like unimaginative fascists, so I'm giving myself that liberty

protip: reactionary ideology is inherently anti-intellectual

>I would distill postmodernism down to: "if it feels good, do it," or, "if it feels good, it's right."

and you would be totally and completely incorrect

so do you just want shitty alt-right politically art, or do you just want things celebrating culture? I honestly don't know what you're talking about

Thanks for the bumps, newfriends!

And I give strong encouragement to all the detractors for the lit journals they've published, along with their published writing and societal influence in general.

cringe

Does Matt Braynard really play World of Warships?

>I would distill postmodernism down to: "if it feels good, do it," or, "if it feels good, it's right."

what did he mean by this

answer my question

>being this passive aggresive because of anonymous criticism of your weak ideological project

Yeah yeah, you managed to publish one number of your zine, congratulations. But you forgot the part where you actually thought out the ideological basis for it instead of being an infantile attempt at Mishima's philosophy.

can appreciate that you're trying to be classy or whatever but you should take one second to understand what the fuck you're talking about before you begin to advocate an extremely violent ideology

jussayin

Why people are so keen to call out others on having the wrong end of the stick with regards to post-modernism without explaining why they're wrong or what post-modernism actually means?

t. Brainlet.

I'll write for your thing, how does "on coalburning" sound for my first article?

if I was publishing a journal that was literally predicated on post-modernism (or any other theoretical concept for that matter) you can be positive that I would give a coherent formulation of post-modernism

but I am not doing such a thing at the moment, so the burden of proof is not on me

that being said, we can talk about Lyotard and Jameson and Danto and all the other major thinkers of post-modernism if you'd like

>reading other culture's literature when you could be appreciating your own

cuck

Precisely because "postmodernism" is actually a very difficult term to define, and it's commonly used in a very loose and arbitrary way, and even as a scapegoat term (for example, Peterson). And then someone comes and shits out: "I distill postmodernism thus!", but shows that they have no clue what they are talking about. He is wrong because he uses postmodernism as a synonym for being a libertine, and that's not what postmodernity is about. And what is it really about? I wouldn't want to embarass myself by even listing some characteristics of it, though this user seems knowledgeable enough.

i love the contrast: super serious intellectual meets edgy assassin idolater

go to bed

>all these losers hating

Veeky Forums is more toxic against its own than any of the so-called containment boards. Here's a guy who is going to pay you to publish your stuff and get you read by students at a fairly respectable university, into which many of you would have never been accepted, and others. Boards like /tv/ and /pol/ as low-level as the discourse is, are many times more successful than this shithole because they actually want to change the respective field or industry they discuss. I'm guessing many of you simply do not write and do not know these more revered literary journals have acceptance rates that are sub .01%. As for his comments on post-modernism...it's clear he does not give a shit what you think of it. He's part of a growing number of people with this belief, the most successful public intellectual of our day clearly agrees with him on it and all of your talking points are simply starting to sound cheesy and ineffective. All I see is resentment.

then you answer my question
I'm p good, and I want to know

I'm not OP.

I just don't like toxic cowards who, if they really do hate anons politics, ought to send him powerful work of their own that compromises his beliefs. But they don't have the talent to put him in a hard place.

well I occupy a place that is sympathetic with the aesthetic appeal of nationalism but recognizes the violent problems it creates

>We are, as far as I know, the only nationalist literary journal in the world
t. american

I have nothing going on, so I might look into tossing some stuff to this. As other anons said, using the phrase post modernism as described makes it seem moronic. The current intellectual left is such a clusterfuck of logically incoherent feel good babble that there really isn't a good label to define it. I think the least linguistically offensive terms to use may be a combination of ethno-masochism and cultural marxism. I know the alt-lite has sort of ruined the term but it still succinctly describes how the proponents on the left frame their moral struggle.

aren´t you that america ahead guy that wasted millions of republican sponsor money to get a few hillbilly and boomers votes in Virginia?
nice to see you guys finally admitting to be reactionary extremists :^)

>ght-wing nationalism in opposition to post-modernism.
LMAfuckinO
as if those are even actually at odds with each other
what the fuck is "postmodernism" even anyway, in this context?

nice boring journal about nothing

Isn't post-modernism pretty compatible with nationalism? Pomo is sceptical of grand (global) narratives- it's all about the subjective, the local and the particular. Which is exactly what nationalism thrives on. 'My country, right or wrong' = 'to hell with your objective truths and universal values'.

I'm pretty rightwing folks, but doesn't the heavy political slant make it much more difficult to find good work? Not to say you can't make art out of noble sentiments, but none of my stories are explicitely "right-wing". Would that be acceptable if the style is unorthodox and wouldn't be published elsewhere?

Read MPC, so shoud OP

>As for his comments on post-modernism...it's clear he does not give a shit what you think of it. He's part of a growing number of people with this belief, the most successful public intellectual of our day clearly agrees with him on it
And? That doesn't make it any less completely pulled out of his ass. And this guy's definition of pomo is completely different from jbp's (though equally manufactured).

>you are now manually aware that OP has made up his own definition of 'postmodern' and is therefore quite a postmodern guy

MPC?

>gook on the homepage
>somebody named Kiki Diamani on the homepage

Piss off civcuck

Seems legit, as he posted a thread a year ago announcing the project: warosu.org/lit/thread/S9086106

Also you are getting funded by Look Ahead America, yet you yourself are the leader of that Think Tank or whatever it is.

So you're self-funding this?

Bravo if so, but I would personally not pay as much as you are. Many of us will be happy to be paid less than you're offering. Interesting concept, but my spook-senses continue to tingle.

I agree about the post-modernism thing.

You can't oppose what is essentially a natural reaction to modernism. It served its purpose in its day, and your opposition to it is rather childish.

Just be "for" something (as you are), don't worry about sperging out against something nobody really gives a fuck about except Peterson and his teenage fanbase.

Nah, is right. The only thing OP's project is 'for' is nationalism, which is probably the most dominant ideology in the world today (the only competitor I can think of is capitalism). Might as well say you're in favour of technology.

But its silly to set yourself against something you don't understand, this is a continuation of the intellectual sloth that marks the American right. How can one change the world if you don't understand it?

MPCdot.com it's the internet forum all rightwing internet forum's aspire to be.

>the most successful public intellectual of our day
Literally who?

I'd say the actual answer is Richard Dawkins. The Anglosphere is pretty shit at public intellectuals though.

lmfaoooooooo

Who's ag rock

>I would distill postmodernism down to: "if it feels good, do it," or, "if it feels good, it's right."

why would you even solicit submissions? the second issue should just be a glossary of what you imagine various words mean.

Apparently he needs submissions to explain to him the difference between postmodernism and unrestrained utilitarianism.

That could be pretty good reading actually.

>cultural marxism. I know the alt-lite has sort of ruined the term

my nigga that was coined in the 90s by a neo-nazi. there was nothing there to ruin. if anything if was watered down from a specific conspiracy theory involving jewish overlords into a generic cry of impotent complaint for when a feminist is meddling with your beloved video games.

Don't assess it as what assless chap ivory tower intellectuals define the term as to suppress criticism of their literal retardation, you mong. Read the terms and think of what the words mean.

>Marxism
Philosophy defined by class struggles, revolution, economic history and evolving capitalism.
>Cultural
Social, ethnic, and gender practices.

In modern terms cultural marxism would be the political movement to get equality of means for different cultural groups instead of different class groups. To achieve the equality of means a central actor should distribute things to the disadvantaged, oppressed classes (Darkies/women/religious minorities) to make them in line with the leading class, white males.

Now this sort of ignores any real implications, puts all the different identity groups on a pyramid like proletariat and bourgeoisie. Even if the majority of practitioners don't even consciously recognize this as cultural marxism, it in essence is what they preach and do.

Are you THE Matt braynard op?

>worshipping a teen who killed the only man opposed to american imperialism
so much for the nationalist right

>asking chantards to contribute

its like you want to fail

Nice. Where can I donate?

just discovered the patreon. it would be better if you just set up a direct donation link for one-offs instead of having to go through registration. i would shoot a few bucks your way

It's much less impressive when you realize his solution was to support Chinese imperialism instead.

this is funny because the term originally meant being a victim of a conspiracy of (jewish) academics and your denial of this meaning mentions, in the very first sentence no least, being a victim of a conspiracy of academics. so i guess you actually believe both in cultural marxism [1, the conspiracy theory] and in cultural marxism [2, vague culture war whining], you just think the name should be reserved for the latter. in both cases you claim a shadowy force is stealing something from you with [2] being simply a vaguer formulation of [1] because at least with [1] you claim that "intellectuals" are stealing "terms" but when we get to [2] it's now a "central actor" who distributes "things" away from you. what was taken from you and who did it?

I don't claim anything about a shadowy force, you obviously haven't been to a college campus in the last decade. And save your pedantic psuedo psychological analysis. Classes are taught about priviledged and dis privileged types of people. Faculty will tell students of European background to "check their privilege". Slogans like "Diversity is our strength" and the peaceful refugee meme are literaly fed to kids straight from the rags that push them.

This wouldn't be an issue, after all its just goofy ramblings of an increasingly alienated academic class. But the average person in the zeitgeist literally believes in stupid shit like "institutional racism" or that anyone who remotely supports poor rural/industrial white interests is a goose stepping nazi.

There are tons of grants outside of affirmative action, for anyone outside of the designated minority groups. Academic rigor standards for hispanic/black students are much lower than the average when considering acceptance to schools. School boards will regularly send memos and take active efforts to make the school culturally "diverse", meanwhile the entire social science department would vote for Bernie Schmanders. Don't even get me started on the safe space, word policing shit that came out of this whole, equalize the cultural groups meme cult ideology you seemingly have not encountered.

all these second-hand tales of woe and you still haven't answered my simple question. your entire position centers on the idea that you, as a white man, are having your "means" and "things" taken away from you by a "central agent". i'm a white dude too and no one knocked on my door. who is the "central agent" and what has he taken from you? note that being annoyed is not really a "loss".

>criticising some fags retarded definition
>"defending" postmodernism
If some guy said Nazism is "kill everyone who isn't blonde haired or blue eyed" and I said he was a stupid faggot I wouldn't necessarily be defending Nazism now, would I?

>protip: reactionary ideology is inherently anti-intellectual
What about the ones who mourn the decline of the nobility and classical eduation huh? *shoots you*

> belittles political opponents because of "le conspiracy theory"
> turns around and rants about "le Trump Russia collusion"
Just kill yourself immediately and stop wasting oxygen.

>I'd say the actual answer is Richard Dawkins.
a nonentity. when was the last time you heard about dawkins?

Who are you quoting?

Obviously I was referring to the feds and the Dem side's massive support for minority groups in particular. Its all everyones tax money, so when every group and their dog gets a nice reach around or community center from the feds except for ol whitey that's the redistribution. Hell the entirety of the Democratic Party hinges on this strategy of funneling money into racial voting blocks while the Repubs cling onto disgruntled whites. Have I personally been robbed of possessions by some soldiers? Of course not. But the stated goal of the left right now, is equality of means between racial and social groups on all metrics. In practice this just means extra benefits for groups not perceived as being on top.

Do you just not follow politics at all? Did you not read all the race baiting stupid shit that was the last election cycle? Were you asleep when social and financial ruin of being called a white racist happens all the time?

>i'm a white dude too and no one knocked on my door. who is the "central agent" and what has he taken from you? note that being annoyed is not really a "loss".
It's not so much being annoyed as discerning that the political left in the west (especially in the Anglosphere) is trying to make the culture generally hostile towards me. And before you tell me about the many white male leftists out there, I've seen plenty of you grovel before those with more intersecting oppressions in ritualistic acts of atonement for your privilege. It doesn't appeal to me.

>comb over at 17

>the left in the west is trying to make the culture generally hostile towards me
It's because nationalism is an ideological dead end. Patriotism and supporting your country is one thing but "my country right or wrong" spirals into giving the implicit right of the country to act against the well-being of it's citizens in the interest of the nation. Part of patriotism is criticizing your country and before you say "that's what I'm trying to do" that doesn't make nationalism viable. As others have said in this thread, nationalism isn't the con to postmodernism or even a solution to it. I don't pretend to know the solution but I can tell you it's outside the confines of reactionary politics.

>ethno-masochism and cultural marxism

And identerianism and "intersectionalism" and neo-Bolshevism and people who shit on a canvass and call it art.

Our belief puts all of them under the umbrella of postmodernism. If this rustles some jimmies from anons, that's fine.

As I said before, I didn't come here for a debate (or what passes for one here), I am seeking submissions.

>heavy political slant make it much more difficult to find good work?

After the last election, I saw numerous popular lit journals announce they were now hard-core "resistance." I don't think it made much of a difference to their slush quality.

But, no, I think it helps. There were some works in our initial edition that were of a superb quality but would not likely have found a home elsewhere and may not have even been submitted anywhere else had we not existed.

> none of my stories are explicitly "right-wing"

That's fine. If it's high quality and at isn't in opposition to what we are, we'd likely publish it.

>Would that be acceptable if the style is unorthodox and wouldn't be published elsewhere?

Now you've got my interest!

>So you're self-funding this?

No, we actually have donors, but this is a small part of our efforts. Every great movement needs art and ours is sorely lacking.

>Bravo if so, but I would personally not pay as much as you are. Many of us will be happy to be paid less than you're offering. Interesting concept, but my spook-senses continue to tingle.

I'm embarrassed by how little we're paying. This isn't just about giving compensation but about helping grow a nascent artistic movement. We're trying to raise the money to add at least a zero to the end of what we're offering now, as well as higher-paying commissioned pieces.

Buying a few copies would help. lookaheadamerica.org/otoya-a-literary-journal-of-the-new-nationalism-volume-0/

Or donate here: lookaheadamerica.org/donate/

Thanks!

Sounds like you could submit a fine piece of creative nonfiction.

well you told me to "read... and think of what the words mean" so i'm applying this advice to your posts and the results are not very impressive. turns out that you're annoyed about the funding of some community centers somewhere...? and the shocking new phenomenon which you think deserves a special name and special ire is, uh, that "the goal of the left right now is equality of means between racial and social groups". as opposed to what? what do you think the goal of the left was before, inequality? when you're forced to speak precisely it turns out you're just another libertarian annoyed that your taxes go to the poor. what does any of that have to do with "cultural marxism"?