The landmark essays of Curtis Yarvin, a.k.a. Mencius Moldbug, that redefined political philosophy for the digital age.

Between 2007 and 2013, a mysterious software engineer writing under the name Mencius Moldbug published a sprawling blog, dense with hyperlinks, called Unqualified Reservations, a strange fusion of political philosophy, cultural critique, historiography, and right-wing polemics unlike anything previously seen in American letters. In what became the most intellectually explosive body of writing of the early internet age, these essays helped define what would later be called the “Neoreactionary” critique of modernity. Unqualified Reservations provided a systematic dismantling of progressive orthodoxy and a completely novel imagining of the architecture of a post-democratic order.

Volume 2 brings together three of Moldbug’s most influential texts. “A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations” serves as the perfect initiation to Moldbug’s core themes, an elegant, wide-ranging labyrinth of reference and analysis that turns the language of liberal democracy inside out to reveal the Matrix-like operating system beneath. “Patchwork: A Political System for the 21st Century” builds on that critique by proposing a radical rethinking of sovereignty through the lens of technology, imagining a world divided into thousands of competing, privately governed jurisdictions. Finally, “Moldbug on Carlyle” presents the Victorian writer Thomas Carlyle as the first great opponent of egalitarianism and the sentimental moralism that sustains it.

Collected here for the first time in print, these writings preserve one of the great intellectual detonations of the early blogosphere, whose incisive critiques and playful style still radiate outward from that first shockwave.

In this hardcover edition...

408 pages on 55lb cream paper
6" x 9" trim size
Casebound, UV grit coating
Smyth-sewn signatures

Print ISBN: 978-1-959403-50-0

Unqualified Reservations Vol. 2 by Curtis Yarvin

Unqualified Reservations Vol. 2 by Curtis Yarvin