Multipolar Press

“Now Europe could, if it wished, if it understood how to mobilize the dark forces that compose its immemorial tradition—forces at once hypermodern and archaic, an alliance of the volcano and the computer, of barbarism and high culture—inaugurate the Faustian culture whose secret it possesses without even knowing it.

The Faustian era: a paradoxical and mobilizing alliance of the nuclear power plant and the Greek temple, of the mists of the North and the sun of the South, of reason and unreason, within the computer of poetry, calculation, and lyricism, of the ancestors and the gods yet to come, of the cathedral and the reactor, of the will to power embodied by modern technology and fidelity to tradition embodied in historical consciousness. History and technology: everything is contained there. Let the biblical prophets turn in their graves. Europe is the meeting, the pact, the understanding between the Engineer and the Historian. It is precisely for this reason that biblical consciousness—which today expresses itself through Atlanticism after having expressed itself through Marxism—despises Europe.

The Engineer: technical modernity. The Historian: the historical perspectivization of a people. European science and technology are conceivable only insofar as they are inscribed within a historical project.”

— Guillaume Faye