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Neoreaction, often abbreviated NRx and also called the Dark Enlightenment, is a controversial political and cultural current that rejects liberal democracy, egalitarianism, and many Enlightenment assumptions in favor of hierarchical, technocratic, and often anti-modern forms of governance. Books in this category typically blend polemic and theory—critiquing democratic institutions, progressivism, and universal human rights—while proposing alternatives such as monarchy, corporate/state hybrids (e.g., “neocameralism”), stratified social orders, or market-driven city-states; they frequently draw on technology, futurism, and evolutionary or cybernetic metaphors to justify rule by elites or algorithms. Originating in internet subcultures and associated with figures like Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug) and Nick Land, neoreactionary works range from manifestos and political philosophy to speculative fiction and techno-policy analysis, and are widely regarded as fringe and polarizing due to links with far-right ideas and critiques of pluralist democracy.
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1. 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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