{"title":"Unqualified Reservations Vol. 2 by Curtis Yarvin","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"ur2","title":"Unqualified Reservations Vol. 2 by Curtis Yarvin","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe landmark essays of Curtis Yarvin, a.k.a. Mencius Moldbug, that redefined political philosophy for the digital age.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBetween 2007 and 2013, a mysterious software engineer writing under the name Mencius Moldbug published a sprawling blog, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edense with hyperlinks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, called \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnqualified Reservations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a strange fusion of political philosophy, cultural critique, historiography, and right-wing polemics \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eunlike anything previously seen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnqualified Reservations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e provided a systematic dismantling of progressive orthodoxy and a completely novel imagining of the architecture of a post-democratic order.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eVolume 2 brings together three of Moldbug’s most influential texts.\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e “A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Patchwork: A Political System for the 21st Century”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Moldbug on Carlyle”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e presents the Victorian writer Thomas Carlyle as the first great opponent of egalitarianism and the sentimental moralism that sustains it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-0d102180-7fff-b5e8-77d3-60acd4d5e9c2\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollected 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this hardcover edition...\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e408 pages on 55lb cream paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6\" x 9\" trim size\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCasebound, UV grit coating\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSmyth-sewn signatures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrint ISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e978-1-959403-50-0\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Passage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42534781976624,"sku":"PASS-3500-HB","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/4398\/9040\/files\/UR_02_web.webp?v=1762210198"}],"url":"https:\/\/passage.press\/collections\/unqualified-reservations-vol-2-by-curtis-yarvin.oembed","provider":"Passage Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}