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Dark Enlightenment
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English
Etymology
en Q7027450 1 in an essay of the same name.
Proper noun
Dark Enlightenment 1
The neo-reactionary movement.
en-US Cade Metz w:Balaji Srinivasan Silicon Valley’s Safe Space The New York Times 2021-02-13 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html 0362-4331 “If things get hot, it may be interesting to sic the Dark Enlightenment audience on a single vulnerable hostile reporter to dox them and turn them inside out with hostile reporting sent to *their* advertisers/friends/contacts,” Mr. Srinivasan said in an email viewed by The New York Times, using a term, “Dark Enlightenment,” that was synonymous with the neoreactionary movement. https://web.archive.org/web/20260105164702/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html 5 January 2026
Derived terms
en dark enlightener
Translations
the neo-reactionary movement
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 黑暗啓蒙 Hēiàn Qǐméng
German: de dunkle Aufklärung f
Polish: pl ciemne oświecenie n
Spanish: es Ilustración Oscura f
See also
en postliberalism
Further reading