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Luke Turner
@luketurner.com
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artist // writer // defeated crypto billionaire-funded neo-Nazis in "the free speech trial of our age" // hewillnotdivide.us (2017-2021) // the metamodernist manifesto (2011) ✨ 🔗 luketurner.com
![Tweet by Kathleen Stock: "Nina [Power] is an original, stimulating, light-footed writer who always makes me think; I'm very happy I supported her crowdfunder a few years back; and I get a lot from @compactmag_ where she is editor, and the podcast she contributes to. Keep doing what you do Nina, you are great."
Reply by Will: "Apart from the Neo-Nazi shit, sure". Embedded tweet by Luke Turner including antisemitic imagery: "During cross-examination, Nina Power & Daniel Miller both admitted they had written anonymously for the Parallax Optics site--a fact they had previously denied--with their *own pleadings* having characterised the account as "espousing and disseminating abhorrent antisemitic views."
Reply by Kathleen Stock: "Whatever the deeper truth here, I absolutely would not take Turner's word for it. And I would say more, but the last time I mentioned his name on Twitter, fairly benignly, I got threatened with legal action."
Reply by Will: "*Deeply* embarrassing tweet when you can literally read the judgment". Embedded tweet by Luke Turner: "A full copy of the High Court's Judgment, which I invite you to read, is available here: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Miller-and-Power-v-Turner-08.11.23.pdf "
Reply by Will: "Still, it's only antisemitism"
Reply by Kathleen Stock: "Sorry Will, I'm not doing trial by twitter. You do it if you want. I've had enough of that shit to last a life time. Feel free to infer all the dastardly conclusions."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xietlj6hmqxkmgusmtenne4f/bafkreicwdbdi2r72q53aohrurehnw3fv2evihywbu752dowszt543hk2im)
![View of 'Cross-examination' wall text painting:
"Q. Now, pausing there, Mr Turner, you - I’m so sorry, I cannot remember if it was yesterday or today - but you used the words in your - in your statement, one of your criticisms of [the claimants] and others, is - is that the language they - they use was, I quote, ‘the language used by the DCXTV Account - and by many of the Twitter accounts with whom it was interacting, such as Depopulatus, ParallaxOptics and others - was pompous, pseudointellectual, and intentionally verbose.’ Those are paragraphs 128 and 119 of your statement, yes?
A. Yes.
Q. Now, help us with - with this, Mr Turner. Your Metamodernist Manifesto is a one-page document that can be found on the document, isn’t it?
A. Yes, it’s an artwork which was written in the style of early 20th century modernist manifestos. It is written in a particularly fanciful way. And yes, it uses unusual language.
Q. And I - I wonder if you can tell me, although it is only a page long, it has got eight points, but I will just go to point five, I think. ‘ All things are caught within the irrevocable slide towards a state of maximum entropic dissemblance. Artistic creation is contingent upon the origination or revelation of difference therein. Affect at its zenith is the unmediated experience of difference in itself. It must be art’s role to explore the promise of its own paradoxical ambition by coaxing excess towards presence.’ Seven, whilst we are here, ‘ Just as science strives for poetic elegance, artists might assume a quest for truth. All information is grounds for knowledge, whether empirical or aphoristic, no matter its truth-value. We should embrace the scientific-poetic synthesis and informed naivety of a magical realism. Error breeds sense.’ Your use of language, Mr Turner, the aspect that I read to you, which began ‘In particular we find Third Positionism…’ Similar, isn’t it?
A. I don’t agree with that. I agree that this open letter is verbose and quite pompous."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xietlj6hmqxkmgusmtenne4f/bafkreib4dvsocjisxgi4mjha7c2dyqpkp35v6k7cfeanb6wiwfkiqzsaca)
![The second case is Miller and Power v Turner [2023] EWHC 2799 (KB), where Mr Lewis acted for the claimants Daniel Miller and Nina Power in their defamation claim against Luke Turner. The case went to trial and Mr Lewis’ clients lost. What seems clear about this case is that the chances of Mr Miller and Ms Power succeeding at trial were very low. Mr Turner had made various statements about Mr Miller and Ms Power, including that they were fascists and neo-Nazis who had engaged in a campaign of harassment against him. Bizarrely, Mr Miller and Ms Power chose not to contest that they were fascists or neo-Nazis, but claimed their reputations had been harmed by the allegations of harassment. Given they had expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler, defending the fascism allegations would have been problematic to say the least. It seems unlikely that additional damage to their reputation was caused by the accusation of harassment on top of the accusation of being fascists? This seems to be the basis on which Mr Miller and Ms Power lost at trial.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xietlj6hmqxkmgusmtenne4f/bafkreigxrvdr46pnedj7idfs7jtt5u2fsvjgji2hl2rwu4uurrtz5x3ile)
