This reading list is designed as a short ideological primer for NRx and the Dark Enlightenment. It’s meant to cover the major ideas without being overwhelming. (Indeed, by usual NRx standards, the list is laughably short.)

Beginning:

• The Dark Enlightenment by Jim
• Technology, communism and the Brown Scare by Mencius Moldbug
• Hell-Baked by Nick Land
• Biological Leninism (part 1, part 2, part 3) by Spandrell
• A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations by Mencius Moldbug

Next steps:

• A reservationist epistemology by Mencius Moldbug
• A formalist manifesto by Mencius Moldbug
• Sam Altman is not a blithering idiot by Mencius Moldbug
• Throne, Altar, and freehold by Jim
• The Purpose of Absurdity by Spandrell
• The Dark Enlightenment by Nick Land
• An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives by Mencius Moldbug
• Moldbug on Carlyle by Mencius Moldbug