#DarkEnlightenment

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Curtis Yarvin Curtis Yarvin, who writes under the pen name Moldbug, is an American software developer and political writer whose blog Unqualified Reservations (2007 onward) founded the neoreactionary movement and co-originated the Dark Enlightenment, and who is the most prominent intellectual patronized by Peter Thiel.
Nick Land Nick Land is an English philosopher who co-founded the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at the University of Warwick in the 1990s, originated the right-accelerationist current that fed into the Dark Enlightenment, and whose CCRU-era writings on capitalism and technology as self-reinforcing feedback loops supplied the metaphysical register that Curtis Yarvin's Neoreaction supplied the institutional register for.
Peter Thiel Peter Thiel is the German-born investor who cofounded PayPal, Palantir and the Dialog society, founded Founders Fund, funded Curtis Yarvin, and corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein from 2011 to 2019.

Dark Enlightenment Name given in Nick Land's 2012 essay series to the neo-reactionary current around Curtis Yarvin's blog Unqualified Reservations, whose readers included Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen and J. D. Vance.
Neocameralism Name coined by Curtis Yarvin on August 16, 2007 for a state organized as a joint-stock corporation that owns a territory, hires a chief executive and treats residents as customers, echoing German cameralism.
Neoreaction Neoreaction (NRx) is the political-philosophical movement founded by Curtis Yarvin (Moldbug) through his blog Unqualified Reservations from 2007 onward, which argues that liberal democracy is a failing theocratic successor to mainline Protestantism and should be replaced by corporate sovereign entities under neocameral governance.