This timeline gives the current repository's minimum viable chronology for Dark Enlightenment / neoreaction development, moving from Hoppe as precursor through Yarvin's primary texts, early external profiling, later Land naming, and contemporary uptake reporting.
This page covers only the chronology directly supported by the current repo. It does not try to settle every precursor tradition or every contemporary adjacent figure.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe publishes Democracy: The God That Failed.A formalist manifesto appears in Unqualified Reservations.Why I am not a white nationalist appears in Unqualified Reservations.Neocameralism and the escalator of massarchy appears in Unqualified Reservations.Patchwork chapter 1 appears in Unqualified Reservations.Democraphobia goes (slightly) viral appears in Unqualified Reservations.Peter Thiel / seasteading adjacency zone.TechCrunch publishes Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries.Dark Enlightenment label becomes attached to the movement in later reference material through Nick Land.What Is It About Peter Thiel? appears in The New Yorker.The Rise of Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s Authoritarian President appears in The New Yorker.Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America appears in The New Yorker.2007-2009 is the core Yarvin text-formation period in the current corpus.2013 marks clear external recognition of neoreaction as a scene.Dark Enlightenment label helps turn a blog cluster into a more portable ideological category.2025 marks the strongest present-day uptake anchor now retained in the repo.Patri Friedman, seasteading, charter cities, and later network state discourse.Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, or Balaji Srinivasan.Atlas Trace retains a local research capture for provenance of the sources
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