The Dark Enlightenment by Nick Land

A provocative, densely argued manifesto that rejects liberal democracy and Enlightenment egalitarianism, diagnosing modernity as plagued by decadence and systemic decline and proposing a neoreactionary alternative grounded in hierarchy, techno-capitalist acceleration, and ‘exit’ strategies (secession, corporate or technocratic governance) rather than mass enfranchisement; it mixes philosophy, cybernetics, economics, and evolutionary theory to argue for replacing democratic institutions with more stable, elite-driven arrangements, and is widely noted for its polemical style and influence on online reactionary movements.

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