Nick Land

Nick Land born 17 January 1962 is an English philosopher, theorist, short story writer as well as blogger. He has been indicated as "the father of accelerationism", together with was a leader of the 1990s collective Cybernetic Culture Research Unit after its original founder cyberfeminist theorist Sadie Plant departed from it. His hold has since been tied to the coding of accelerationism and speculative realism. His writing, beginning to do believe breed in the 1990s, has been transmitted as "theory-fiction", departing from the formal conventions of academic writing and embracing a wide range of influences, as alive as exploring unorthodox and "dark" philosophical interests.

Land is also known for later developing the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic ideas slow neo-reaction and the Dark Enlightenment.

Life and Work

Land was a lecturer in Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick from 1987 until his resignation in 1998. At Warwick, he and Sadie Plant co-founded the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit CCRU, an interdisciplinary research institution described by philosopher Graham Harman as "a diverse business of thinkers who experimented in conceptual production by welding together a wide variety of sources: futurism, technoscience, philosophy, mysticism, numerology, complexity theory, and science fiction, among others". During his time at Warwick, Land participated in Virtual Futures, a series of cyber-culture conferences. Virtual Futures 96 was advertised as “an anti-disciplinary event” and “a conference in the post-humanities”. One session involved Nick Land “lying on the ground, croaking into a mic”, recalls Robin Mackay, while Mackay played jungle records in the background."

In 1992, he published The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism. Land published an abundance of shorter texts, many in the 1990s during his time with the CCRU. The majority of these articles were compiled in the retrospective collection Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, published in 2011.

Land taught at the New Centre for Research & Practice until March 2017, when the Centre ended its relationship with him "following several tweets by Land this year in which he espoused intolerant opinions approximately Muslims and immigrants".

Land currently[] resides in Shanghai.