Archeofuturism

Faye published the argument in 1998 as Archéofuturisme, Archeofuturism in English. He had been a theorist of GRECE, the French New Right, in the 1970s and 1980s, left that circle, and later returned with a harder identitarian line. The book treats modern liberal society as headed for collapse, and offers this doctrine as a way of thinking about what should follow.

The name joins two claims. The archaic half, from the Greek arkhē, is Faye's word for a founding or ancestral impulse: inherited order, hierarchy, and a closed sense of who belongs. He did not mean a taste for old objects. The futurist half welcomes advanced technology rather than rejecting the modern world outright. The combination is the doctrine. It is not a general liking for old buildings and new machines.

Critics place the idea in the identitarian right, not in a neutral design trend. The future Faye described is sharply unequal: a technological minority, a much larger population sent back toward a pre-modern way of living, and separated cultural blocs. Reviewers have called the prophecy implausible and the politics exclusionary. The collapse did not arrive on the dates he wrote down. This page states that record. It does not argue for the program, and it does not write the program out as a plan.

Two of the twelve axes split the two halves of the name. Culture runs from Progressive to Traditional. The archaic claim sits toward Traditional. Technology runs from Acceleration to Bioconservative. The futurist claim is interested in advanced technique, which is a different axis, so a person can score traditional on culture and accelerationist on technology at the same time. That split is something a two-axis compass hides. It is also not, by itself, archeofuturism.

Power runs from Security to Freedom. The order Faye described is hierarchical, so the stress is on Security: rule that is not answerable in the liberal sense. Immigration runs from Assimilationist to Multiculturalist, and Intervention from Internationalist to Nationalist. A picture of closed cultural blocs points toward the closed ends of both. Economy is not fixed by the label. The doctrine is not a tax program.

None of this is a score the test stores under the name archeofuturism. The 38 reference positions come from the open-source 12axes project. This label is not among them. If your own result is traditional on culture and accelerationist on technology, that describes your answers. It is not a finding that you hold Faye's politics.