2014, Nick Land, “Re-running the race to ruin”, in The Dark Enlightenment[1], archived from the original on January 23, 2024:
[T]he international ideal of sound governance finds itself approximating more closely and rigidly to the standards set by the Grievance Studies departments of New England universities. This is […]consolidated as the reign of the Cathedral.
[2016 August 25, Dylan Matthews, “The alt-right is more than warmed-over white supremacy. It’s that, but way way weirder.”, in Vox[2], archived from the original on September 21, 2016:
Park MacDougald, in an excellent piece on Nick Land's brand of neoreaction, describes the Cathedral as a "media-academic mind-control apparatus." I actually think the best analogy is to the role the patriarchy plays in radical feminist epistemology, or the role of "ideology" in Marxism.]
The idea of the Cathedral closely resembles Marxian critical theory’s understanding of ideology, as an all-encompassing system and prison of the mind.]
[Peter Thiel] has consistently argued that conservatives waste their time and political energy on fights over issues like gay marriage or critical race theory, because liberal ideology holds sway in the important institutions of prestige media and academia—an intertwined nexus he calls “the Cathedral.”
