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Charles Krafft is a self-taught painter based in Seattle, Washington. His work in the Delft ceramics tradition was inspired by his friendship with American motorcycle and hot rod hero Von Dutch. In the early 1990s, Krafft began a series of natural and socio-political disasters painted on found china plates called Disasterware™, with the logo designed by Von Dutch.  In 1995, Krafft traveled to war-ravaged Bosnia Herzegovina with the Slovenian industrial rock band Laibach. Moved by the plight of the besieged residents of Sarajevo, he returned to the Balkans and created an arsenal of Delft weaponry. The Porcelain War Museum Project premiered at the Republic of Slovenia Ministry of Defense headquarters in 2000, and has subsequently been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world.

During an Arts/ Industry Residency at the Kohler Co. Pottery in 1999 Krafft began a series of human bone china memorials and reliquaries based on a formula invented by the British porcelain manufacturer Josiah Spode . Krafft substituted ball milled human crematory ash for Spode’s  percentage of calcinated cow bone in his clay body, resulting in a product he calls SPONE™.  Krafft’s “Ring of Spone” exhibition debuted in 2003 at the Arthur A. Wright Chapel columbarium in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Seattle and has since traveled extensively.

Influenced by the Romanian philosopher E M Cioran, Krafft became interested in the aesthetics of Romanian mystical nationalism which prompted him to study seminal Rightist authors on World War II such as Douglas Reed, Prince Michael Sturdza, Ernst Junger, Nicholas Gomez Divila, et al. His poetic tribute to Corneliu Codreanu, martyred founder of the Iron Guard and the Legion of St Michael the Archangel, can be read at:

http://www.kingfisherpress.com/Roethke_Third_Edition_Krafft_Page.htm

 http://www.antiquesatoz.com/artatoz/krafft/

Thor Einar Leichhardt is an ethnic German who was born in Croatia and is an Irish citizen. He holds diploma in Sanskrit language Studies with Bhakti Sastri, an BA degree in Politics and History and was an VTE (Vaishnava Training and Education) teacher. At the moment he is doing his MA work in History of the Political Ideas with the topic ''Croatian Historical Revolution 1918-1945'' which was school of though and movement similar to German Conservative Revolutionary Movement. He comes from the Family whose spiritual heritage spans from Old Norse beliefs and Hellenic Polytheism to Traditional Gaudiya Vaishnavism. He has travelled and lived in India, USA, Germany, Sweden, Denmark and England. In India he became an initiate in the lineage of the Traditional Gaudiya Vaishnavism. His primary influences are authors and thinkers such as Ernst Jünger, Croatian thinker Dr. Mirko Kus-Nikolajev and Dr. Ivo Pilar ( both members of ''Croatian Historical Revolution''), Werner Sombart, Hendrik De Man, Georges Sorel, Robert Michels and Vilfredo Pareto. He is proponent of the Eurocontinentalism and also European Traditionism as presented by French Historian and thinker Dominique Venner and others thinkers such as Dr. Giorgio Locchi, Louis Rougier and Croatian scholar Dr. Radoslav Katičić. Other prominent authors he admires are : Colombian author and thinker Nicolás Gómez Dávila , French thinkers Dr. Guillaume Faye and Pierre Le Vigan, post modern German poet Rolf Schilling and Ernst von Salomon. Thor Einar Leichhardt writes regular column for the Croatian online portal ''Hr-Svijet'' , various journals and newspapers and is one of the two editors of ''The New Antaios Journal'' and editor of the ''Eurocontinentalism Journal''.

contact: suncovrat@gmail.com

Calliope Michalopoulou was born in Piraeus, Greece, in 1953. After graduating from the “Jeanne d’Arc” French High School in Piraeus (1971), she studied French Literature at the University of Athens (1971-1975). Thereafter, she did post-graduate studies in France, at the Paris I and Paris III Universities, studying the teaching of French as a foreign language. She taught French and English at the Greek Air Force School of Foreign Languages (1979-1982), and French at the Technological Educational Institution of  Salonica (1983-1984) and the “Arsakeion” High Schools of Salonica and Athens (1984-2000). On pension now, she is a free lance translator.  She speaks French (fluently), English (fluently), and Spanish (fluently).

Francesco Boco, born in 1984. Graduated with a Doctorate in Philosophy at the University of Trento with a thesis about Carl Schmitt and the Nomos. In 2009 graduated cum laude in Specialist Philosophy with a thesis entitled Vision of the crisis: Spengler and Heidegger. His major influences include: Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Junger, Yukio Mishima, Jean Thiriart, Carl Schmitt, Oswald Spengler and many others. 

Dr Boco writes for several Italian daily journals such as Secolo d’Italia, Linea and il Gazzettino, usually on culture, music and society. On the web he writes articles for the weekly Il Fondo di Miro Renzaglia. He also writes for Divenire, the magazine of the Italian Transhumanist Association. Between 2004 and 2008 he was published in Eurasia – rivista di studi geopolitici. In 2007 he translated and introduced Pour en finir avec le nihilisme by Guillaume Faye (SEB, Milano), an interesting essay on Heidegger’s methodology, and that year also a study on the geopolitics of immigration was published in the anthology Polaris 2 (SEB). As of writing (November 2009) Dr Boco is working on a book on Myth based on an interview by Settimo Sigillo with Luca Leonello Rimbotti, due out at the beginning of 2010. Dr Boco is also working on a political pamphlet entitled T.U.L. (urban territorial liberation), which will be translated into English. In his free time Dr Boco plays sport and music. 

Contact: vincenzo.boco@tin.it

Leonid Savin (born Ukraine, 1974). Educated at Sumy machine-building college (engineering and adjustment of electronic and robotic systems); theological college (ancient Greek and Latin); Association of Distance Education (management of non-governmental organizations and non -profit projects); High School of Journalism; and at numerous seminars and training courses  on NGO’s and intergovernmental organizations such as the UN and Council of Europe.

Sphere of professional interests: geopolitics, globalization, foreign relations, international and national security, sociology, net-centric and info-wars.  

Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Ancient Greek, Latin, English,  Spanish. 

Formerly (in Ukraine) Editor of the “New Policy” book series (“University Books” publishing house), Deputy-Editor of “Nova kniga” magazine, Editor of “Kali-Yuga” magazine (1999-2005), Chairman of “Eurasia” NGO.

 Current positions: Head of Administration of the “International Eurasian Movement” (established 2003); Editor-in-Chief of the “Geopolitics of postmodernism” internet media (www.geopolitica.ru, established 2008); Senior Expert of the Centre of Geopolitical Research (established 2000); Fellow of the Centre of Conservative Research, Faculty of Sociology, Moscow State University.

Alex Synodinos was born in Greece in 1978. He acquired a university degree in Military History and later continued his studies with a postgraduate degree in Intelligence Studies. His primary interests are the history of terrorism, the role of lobbies and clandestine political groups in the making of history, as well as the evolution of Just War Theory. He has published several articles in different Greek magazines, either under his name or under pseudonyms. 

Contact: alexiossynodinos@hotmail.com

Nikolaos Kamalakidis, born in 1975 in Patras, Greece, is a graduate of the Technical Educational Foundation, Patras: School of Finance and Administration, 1993-1996; and of the Greek Merchant Marine Academy, Cephallonia, 1999-2005. Languages: Greek, English. Interests: Current European politics.