https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neoreactionary_movement

Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/edmund-burke-and-the-invention-of-modern-conservatism-1830-1914-9780198799429?cc=ca&lang=en&

Hochschild, Arlie Russell. Strangers in Their Own Land : Anger and Mourning on the American Right. New York ; New Press, 2016.

Lilla, Mark. The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction. New York; NY Review of Books, 2016.

Robin, Corey. The Reactionary Mind. https://coreyrobin.com/books/the-reactionary-mind/

Hughes, H. Stuart (Henry Stuart). Oswald Spengler, a Critical Estimate. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1975.

Phillips-Fein, Kim. Invisible Hands : The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan. 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2009.

Sedgwick, Mark J., ed. Key Thinkers of the Radical Right : Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Lee, Martin A. (1997). The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Group and Right-Wing Extremists. 

Mosse, George. The Culture of Western Europe: The 19th and 20th Centuries.

Spengler, O. The Decline of the West. 

Lewis, B. Oswald Spengler and the politics of decline. 

Moyn, S. and McMahon, D.M. Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History

Girard, Rene. 2008. Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953–2005. Ed. by Robert Doran. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-5580-1.

Doran, Robert (2011). "René Girard's Archaic Modernity," Revista de Comunicação e Cultura / Journal of Communication and Culture 11, pages 37–52.

Palaver, Wolfgang (2013). René Girard's Mimetic Theory. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 978-1-61186-077-1.

Eaglestone, R. (2004). The Holocaust and the postmodern. Oxford University Press.

Herf, J. (1984). Reactionary modernism : technology, culture, and politics in Weimar and the Third Reich. Cambridge University Press.

Berlin, I. (1973). The Counter-Enlightenment. https://web.archive.org/web/20130903045244/http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/published_works/ac/counter-enlightenment.pdf

Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method, and Practice. https://www.routledge.com/Researching-the-Far-Right-Theory-Method-and-Practice/Ashe-Busher-Macklin-Winter/p/book/9781138219342?srsltid=AfmBOopL_r4k4jPDmemTVv5bkVxOapML2dySGa465FFae7rCRyJd0Dxm

The ethics of researching the far right. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526173874/

neoreaction a basilisk: "Sketching The Monster at Its Heart": An Appreciation of Neoreaction a Basilisk — Broken Hands Media

Moldbug, M. intellectual history of his thought. https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2010/02/from-mises-to-carlyle-my-sick-journey/

Formalist Manifesto. https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/04/formalist-manifesto-originally-posted/

Reddit AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4bxf6f/comment/d1dbk7h/?context=1

his company TIon comes from Borges short story (note 7)

LambdaConf and the altright: (Yarvin was not allowed to speak): https://www.inc.com/tess-townsend/indiegogo-campaign-funding-tech-conference-white-nationalist.html

statement post election calling for insurrection: https://graymirror.substack.com/p/reflections-on-the-late-election

on CCRU. http://energyflashbysimonreynolds.blogspot.com/2009/11/renegade-academia-cybernetic-culture.html

left v. right acceleration https://web.archive.org/web/20140217071439/http://darkecologies.com/2014/02/15/nick-land-on-williams-and-srnicek-accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/

Michael Anissimov. More Right. https://archive.is/www.moreright.net

principles of reactionary thought: https://archive.is/Tysuy

transhumanism & neoreaction: https://archive.is/20150214101923/www.moreright.net/reconciling-transhumanismand-neoreaction/

Vox Day. https://web.archive.org/web/20140731124301/http://voxday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/neoreactionary-space_27.html

CATO libertarian response: https://www.cato.org/commentary/europes-neoreaction-scarier-you-think#

Roko's basilisk: https://web.archive.org/web/20150330121104/http://www.xenosystems.net/in-the-mouth-of-madness/#comment-31161

Nyan Sandwich of The Future Primaeval, organizes meetup of group called Phalanx: https://web.archive.org/web/20141104051137/http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193575.html

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/01/links-for-november-2014/#comment-156169

LD50 gallery: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/22/art-gallery-criticised-over-neo-nazi-artwork-and-hosting-racist-speakers

on nRx's Putinism: http://www.leapleapleap.com/2015/06/bears-will-never-steal-your-car-reacting-to-the-neoreactionaries/

moldbug uses of dark enlightenment: https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/05/ol3-jacobite-history-of-world/

use of nRx: https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/06/olx-simple-sovereign-bankruptcy/

first used as name for movement as whole: https://www.econlib.org/archives/2010/07/the_neo-reactio.html

nRx brought to attention of public here: https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/

and here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/mouthbreathing-machiavellis

and here: https://spectator.org/the-dark-enlightenment-is-silly-not-scary/

dark enlightenment also used by orwell: http://www.telelib.com/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/essay/tribune/AsIPlease19431224.html

from nRx blog, Habitable Worlds: https://habitableworlds.wordpress.com/2013/11/23/neoreaction-monarchy/

2015 overview: https://www.theawl.com/2015/09/the-darkness-before-the-right/

economist Tyler Cowen on movement from 2016: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/06/what-is-neo-reaction.html

Hubert Collins and Hadley Bishop, “Two Prominent Identitarians Give Us Their Thoughts On Neoreaction.” Interview with Michael McGregor and Gregory Hood. Social Matter, October 15, 2014. http://www.socialmatter.net/2014/10/15/724/

LOTS OF WRITING BY SCOTT ALEXANDER ON THEM (HE KNEW THEM): https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Alexander

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-in-an-enormous-planet-sized-nutshell/

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/10/20/the-anti-reactionary-faq/

Thiel's big essay: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/

Eliezer Yudkowsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk

https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/coherent-extrapolated-volition

Freud, thinker of the dark enlightenment

FORERUNNERS OF DARK ENLIGHTENMENT/NRX:

Hartz, L. (1952). The Reactionary Enlightenment: Southern Political Thought Before the Civil War. Western Political Quarterly, 5(1), 31-50. https://doi.org/10.1177/106591295200500103

Futurist Manifesto

Michael Anissimov on Evola: https://archive.is/XgRh2#selection-121.0-121.21

Reactionary Modernism

Charles Maurras and his inspiration from Comte and Le Play, 

Nationalism, Positivism and Catholicism: The Politics of Charles Maurras and French Catholics 1890–1914 by Michael Sutton (2002) Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521893402.

Julien Benda, The Treason of Intellectuals

John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces --character Ignatius J. Reilly as forerunner--love of Boethius, trad Cath

Sovereign, by April Daniels -- nRx version of Richard Branson 

The Corporation Wars trilogy, Ken MacLeod -- scifi of left acc and nRx fighting each other

The Californian Ideology by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron (1995) The HRC Archive.

In the Francophone world, the thought of Guillaume Faye also anticipates neoreaction in several particulars. Faye calls his ideas archeofuturism; this "calls for 'the re-emergence of archaic configurations' – 'pre-modern, inegalitarian, and non-humanist'" and advocates traditional spirituality and concepts of sovereignty while hoping for a technological utopia. This, by Faye's reckoning, is the only way to defeat "the American party", which he continues to identify with egalitarianism and democracy.[43] (Faye wrote in 1999, so he had the opportunity to acquaint himself well enough with recent U.S. history to know better.) Faye also spoke at a conference hosted by the white supremacist magazine American Renaissance.

COMPACT MAGAZINE

Nina Power - https://www.compactmag.com/contributor/nina-power/

The Delusions of Radical Intellectuals/Hamilton Craig (CUNY)- https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-delusions-of-radical-intellectuals/

The Devil's Work/Nick Land - https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-devil-s-work/

Why We Need the Canon Wars - https://www.compactmag.com/article/why-we-need-the-canon-wars/

The Open Spiral/Nick Land - https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-open-spiral/

The Dialectic of Dark Enlightenment/Zizek - https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-dialectic-of-dark-enlightenment/

family tree:




Kant ----> Heidegger & Nietzsche

Traditionalists (Guenon, Evola, Dugin)

Austrian libertarians (Rothbard, Mises, Hoppe)

and the longer reactionary trend including Burke, Carlyle, etc

what is relationship between the bits and the digital creation and what D&G/Foucault call the fascist in you?

commodification of desire -- a technical machine is therefore not a cause but merely an index of a general form of social production

"Technical machines obviously work only if they are not out of order; they ordinarily stop working not because they break down but because they wear out. Marx makes use of this simple principle to show that the regime of technical machines is characterized thanks to this distinction, the machine transmits value to the product, but only the value that the machine itself loses as it wears out. Desiring-machines, on the contrary, continually break down as they run, and in fact run only when they are not functioning properly: the product is always an offshoot of production, implanting itself upon it like a graft, and at the same time the parts of the machine are the fuel that makes it run." -Anti-Oedipus, 31

https://www.frieze.com/article/theoretically-speaking

https://xenogothic.com/2025/02/19/evil-scenius-reflecting-on-the-mythology-of-nick-land/

https://readthis.wtf/writing/nick-land-an-experiment-in-inhumanism/

https://web.archive.org/web/20130904144051/http://www.ccru.net/

https://www.virtualfutures.co.uk

things to touch on:

history of CCRU and trajectories of various members after Mark Fisher's death

outline of Land's New Centre course in 2017 on accelerationism -- as posed against his tweets at the same time

Compact publications and downfall of Nina Power after Luke Miller trial (Land's writings for the mag)

importance of Heidegger 

new movements (Power's course on world history, Land's influence on alt-right, Yarvin, etc)

Colin Koopman,‘Foucault’s Historiographical Expansion’
Journal of the Philosophy of History 2:3 (2008): 338–62.


 Paul Gottfried on ‘dark enlightenment’: https://chroniclesmagazine.org/reviews/of-opposite-minds-maistre-and-mill/

Adorno, Theodor W. The Jargon of Authenticity. Northwestern University Press, 1973. 

Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction. Oxford:

Oxford University Press, 2008.



Herf, Jeffrey. Reactionary modernism: technology, culture, and politics in Weimar and the Third Reich. Cambridge University Press, 1984. 

Löwenthal, Leo & Guterman, Norbert. Prophets Of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator. Studies in Prejudice Series. Vol. 5. Harper & Brothers, American Jewish Committee, 1949. 

Noys, Benjamin. Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism. Zero Books, 2014. 

Sedgwick, Mark, ed. Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal

Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.



Sternhell, Zeev. The anti-enlightenment tradition (1st ed.). Yale University Press, 2010.

Wolin, Richard. The Seduction of Unreason : The Intellectual Romance with Fascism : From Nietzsche to Postmodernism. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2004.

Journals

Hodrick, Courtney. “From Neoreaction to Alt-Right: A Schmittian Perspective,” Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 198(Spring 2022), 90-112.

Hui, Yuk. “On the Unhappy Consciousness of Neoreactionaries,” e-flux journal no. 81, April 2017. 

Lievens, Matthias. “Carl Schmitt’s Metapolitics,” Constellations 20:1 (2013), 121-137

Love, Jeff & Meng, Michael. “Heidegger’s Metapolitics,” Cultural Critique 99 (2018), 97-122.

Luke, Timothy W. “The Dark Enlightenment and the Anthropocene: Readings from the Book of Third Nature as Political Theology,” Telos 194, Spring 2021, 263-86

Norocel, Ov Cristian. “Research bricolage on far-right metapolitics: superordinate intersectionality perspectives on digital identities,” Innovation, 37:4 (2022), 1081–1097. Https://doi.org/10.1080/13511610.2023.2292954

Panofsky, Aaron et al. “How White nationalists mobilize genetics: From genetic ancestry and human biodiversity to counterscience and metapolitics.” American journal of physical anthropology vol. 175,2 (2021): 387-398. doi:10.1002/ajpa.24150

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Weatherby, Leif. “Irony and Redundancy: The Alt-Right, Media Manipulation, and German Idealism,” boundary2 (June 2019). https://www.boundary2.org/2019/06/leif-weatherbyirony-and-redundancy-the-alt-right-media-manipulation-and-german-idealism/

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Fisher, Mark. "Nick Land: Mind Games". Dazed and Confused (1 June 2011). 



Miller, Daniel. "Who Is Nick Land?". Tablet Magazine (5 October 2025). 

Haider, Shuja. "The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction". Viewpoint Magazine(28 March 2017). 

Kofman, Ava. “Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America,” The New Yorker (2 June 2025). https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-profile

Shullenberger, Geoff. “The Faith of Nick Land,” Compact Magazine (15 October 2025). 

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Land, Nick. “The Devil’s Work,” Compact Magazine (13 April 2023). 

Land, Nick. “The Open Spiral,” Compact Magazine (8 March 2023). 

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