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Dark Enlightenment

Dark Enlightenment proper noun: the neo-reactionary movement.

Proper noun

the Dark Enlightenment

  1. The neo-reactionary movement.
    • “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...2021 February 13, Cade Metz, quoting Balaji Srinivasan, “Silicon Valley’s Safe Space”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Origin of Dark Enlightenment

Coined by British philosopher Nick Land in an essay of the same name.

Questions about Dark Enlightenment

What does Dark Enlightenment mean?
Dark Enlightenment means the neo-reactionary movement.
What part of speech is Dark Enlightenment?
Dark Enlightenment is a proper noun.

Words near Dark Enlightenment in the dictionary

  1. dark elf
  2. dark elves
  3. dark empath
  4. dark empaths
  5. dark energy
  6. Dark Enlightenment
  7. dark factories
  8. dark factory
  9. dark fantasy
  10. dark fiber
  11. dark fibre

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