Holy Lies and the Normal Elite
Kate and Stefan look at some people who are competing to replace the crumbling normal elite. Aspirations to replace the NYT (Bari Weiss), the Holocaust narrative (historian Tom Holland), and suicidal universities (UATX). And we propose a DEEP ART STRATEGY.
Runtime 31 minutes, November 30, 2025
The Antisemitism of Nick Fuentes
Vibrating between total indifference and fear, the KIRAC people try to understand this new version of American Antisemitism, the latest version after religious and German Antisemitism. Nick Fuentes is its star.
Nick Fuentes turns America First into a new antisemitism, using a Luther style revolt against universalism. Kate and Stefan connect his rhetoric to Kant’s categorical imperative, the Declaration of Independence, Hannah Arendt’s The Jew as Pariah: A Hidden Tradition, female resentment from the Victorian age and the collapse of sexual imagination in liberal democracy.
“Liberalism keeps the women in the dark about their sexuality, because it teaches her that her worth as a human being, which for a woman cannot be separated from her sexual value, exists independently of the male experience of it. This prevents her from fathoming the male gaze. The young liberal woman who becomes involved in a relationship with a man for the first time will be confronted with the mystery of the man, his desire, his gaze. And will feel that in yielding to his masculinity, she betrays or degrades herself, unless she shakes off her upbringing and forgives her parents for having lied to her.”
Some additional thoughts on democracy and art, in response to Groypers, the Nick Fuentes fans, who got a bit angry about our Nick Fuentes episode. They say: “You claim there is a lack of an elite and that this is the problem. But that is not true. Democracy does have a (corrupt, Jewish) elite that controls politics but hides itself, and Nick points it out. You don’t understand him!”
Indeed our position is that a democratic elite hides itself because its exceptional status contradicts the democratic principle of equality, especially in an advanced stage of democracy where, through the succession mechanism, the idea of democracy is interpreted more and more purely, moving ever closer to a pure universalism, in other words becoming increasingly left wing. It is because of this increasingly universalist democracy that Nick can play his Lutheran game on universalism. I presume Nick would follow us in this analysis halfway.
Contemporary elites do not produce elite culture but seek connection with mass and celebrity culture, and that so called elite culture, contemporary art, serves the elite with universalist sycophancy that does not distinguish itself from mass culture by greater complexity, refinement or depth, but by the dullness and ponderousness with which it “criticises” the elite.
A democratic elite cannot display its power openly because it understands that this will be used against it. It looks for ways to camouflage itself, to present itself as less powerful than it is, and it will try to expand its power in a way that is covert and hidden from public view. Through the ever lurking accusation of hypocrisy, the elite becomes hypocritical.
From a democratic perspective, displaying power is a form of bad taste. From an undemocratic perspective, displaying power in the form of art or architecture is a form of politeness by which a ruler presents himself visibly and therefore vulnerably. Elite culture expresses something about the actual reality of the elite, not only the projected reality of the people from whom the elite tries to hide. This is a thesis we developed in our talk Art and Tyranny.
In its current stage, democracy’s succession mechanism depends almost entirely on exposing the hypocrisy of your opponents. Each generation succeeds the previous one by unmasking them, until the system produces someone like Trump, and after him someone like Nick Fuentes.
As Nick attacks his opponents he grows and grows. No one can respond without becoming a hypocrite. All their hypocrisy becomes his. He becomes the most hypocritical of all, and at the same time the one who unmasks everyone else. He is the synthesis. The final figure exposes the final hypocrisy, and then you see how the erotic charge of hypocrisy works, and how it was the driving force of democracy all along.
It’s delightful when the mask of this final figure falls away. He is cheerful, constantly becoming a new kind of hypocrite. He can now make use of all the hypocritical masks that have been cast off.
And that is also why Nick likes Stalin. He says it is about Stalin’s statesmanship, but what really draws him is the dialectic itself. It is the marxist pattern that feeds him.
19 minutes, November 13, 2025
Crisis of Passion — Bronze Age Pervert, Erika Kirk, Roger Scruton, Bernini
Art, weirdness, and the crisis of passion. The Bronze Age Pervert on the Christian takeover of Trump’s movement. These Christians blame postmodern culture and memes for Charlie Kirk’s murder. How pointing at postmodernism and irony becomes a veiled form of censorship—and how there’s artistic opportunity in reconciling Christians with the rotting corpse, the stink, the body on the cross. Mel Gibson, Brechtian theater, the Counter-Reformation, Bernini’s Theresia trembling in delicious pain. 14 minutes.
A Wayward Feel – JD Vance, Anna Khachiyan, Milo Yiannopoulos, Nick Land
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. – YouTube / Spotify
Runtime 14 minutes. Release date 2025 september 30 6pm (CEST)
The Metaphysical Fight of the Billionaires – Elon Musk vs Peter Thiel
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)
Art and Tyranny, Sinha, Ruitenbeek, d’Alancaisez
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
Arthur Dugin – The Metaphysics of the Russian State
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: @KhvorostovDima
Alexey Bevza: @bevzianstvo
Monday, August 25, 2025, Runtime 61 minutes
Porkchop Express talks to Ruitenbeek
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.
August 7, 2025 – Watch full conversation and all our films on Patreon or via our own system.
A patron visits KIRAC Studio
Tomas Postema, a KIRAC patron, visits KIRAC studio during the creation of KIRAC episode 27. Directed by Sebastiaan Verbeeten. As a courtesy to our patrons, only they get to watch it for now. Become a Patron now!
25 minutes. 2024 March 22.
KIRAC talk – Assholes, Dostoyevski, Mai Spijkers
What Peter Vack, the director and writer of the film 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.
Tags: 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
35 minutes, 2022 sept 7
KIRAC movie talk – The Scary of Sixty-First
Dasha Nekrasova’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.
54 minutes, 2022 Aug 10
KIRAC movie talk – Midsommar
Kate and Stefan discuss Ari Aster’s Midsommar and other things that pop up. Such as: Cannibal Holocaust, Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood, Salo, Death in venice, Funny Games, The Shining, Blair Witch Project, The most beautiful boy in the world (Björn Andrésen), Medea, Primo Levi, Vera Mulder (redacteur vooroordelen De Correspondent), Rihanna & Amber Heard. (link tmrw)
57 minutes, 2022 Jul 20
KIRAC movie talk – Salò, or the 120 days of Sodom
Kate and Stefan discuss Pasolini’s 1975 film Salò, fascism, mediocrity and morose monumental marxist film making. As we are in the middle of making a new long feature film, which is a hardcore process of giving birth to the unknown, it’s nice to document and upload these light, intimate conversations that Kate and me anyway have after watching a movie. Of course the camera has an influence: if you reference something you must make sure that the audience get’s it as well, in stead of moving on swiftly, relying on the library of references you build up whilst in a relationship. But otherwise I try to keep these conversations as natural as possible. I hope you enjoy them too.
14 minutes, 2022 Jul 6
KIRAC movie talk – Balzac’s ‘Lost Illusions’ by Giannoli
About the film adaptation of Balzac’s novel ‘Lost Illusions’ by director Xavier Giannoli, but also very much about Balzac and what he means for art & artists today. And: Amadeus, Milos Forman, Girls, Lena Dunham, Quentin Tarantino, Philp & Inge van den Hurk.
107 minutes, 2022 Jun 16
KIRAC Movie Talk – “What is a woman” by Matt Walsh ft. Cameron David Moreno
Milo Yiannopoulos, Jordan Peterson, Archetypes, Bildung, America versus Europe, Sex, Medea, Lord Byron
43 minutes, 2022 Jun 8
KIRAC Academy ‘Kate’s vision’
Kate’s vision for how an art academy should be shaped, how you can improve your art by working with KIRAC, and what art is.
15 minutes. May 13, 2021
KIRAC Diary ‘Tales of a KIRAC intern’
Sebastiaan wanted an internship at KIRAC. This is his diary.
11 minutes. 2020 Feb 26
KIRAC Talk ‘Artist Luca Bertolo interviews KIRAC for Artribune magazine’
Artist Luca Bertolo interviewed us for Artribune Magazine. This is the video I shot of the entire conversation.I think I get into a flow from question 4 and onwards, minute 13:30. Before that it might be interesting but I’m still a bit inside my head, the words coming out a bit vague and abstract.
Things discussed: Thomas Bernhard, Mozart, Emmanuel Kant, Well-fare state.
Article here (In Italian) 40 minutes, 2020, Feb 17
Podcast #2 ‘KIRAC goes Russia with Alexander Shilov’
Alexander Shilov invites us to Russia because he likes KIRAC. He wants us to do something in Moscow. He’s concerned with the state of the Moscow art scene and the possibilities for artists there. He makes his money as a yacht-broker travelling back and forth between Ibiza en Moscow. It was a great honour to tell him about the program I’m developing to groom art collectors into real Patrons, which could prove very beneficial for Moscow. This program involves portraiture in the literary tradition of Dostoyevski and Balzac. I don’t know how compatible the program I’m proposing is with the Anglo-Saxon / American way of thinking, because these guys are so utilitarian in everything cultural they do. I think what we are trying to do is a very European / Russian / Eastern thing. That’s why I think we have great chances in Russia.
2020 september 25, 12 minutes
Podcast #1 ‘The Video PhD’
Featuring Mathieu Weggeman
If we don’t get enough support we will stop to exist! Support us by watching on VimeoOnDemand, or become a supporter and get mega courtesy access.
2020 september 3, 1 hour 9 minutes.