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Nick Land

Nick Land
Born (1962-01-17) 17 January 1962 (age 62)
NationalityBritish
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy[1]
Accelerationism
Dark Enlightenment
InstitutionsUniversity of Warwick
Main interests
Notable ideas
Accelerationism

Nick Land (born 17 January 1962) is an English philosopher, who has been described as "the Godfather of accelerationism".[2] His work has been tied to the development of speculative realism.[3][4] He was a leader of the 1990s "theory-fiction" collective Cybernetic Culture Research Unit after its original founder cyberfeminist theorist Sadie Plant left it.[5][6] His work departs from the formal conventions of academic writing and embraces a wide range of influences, as well as exploring unorthodox and "dark" philosophical interests.[7]

Land is also known for later developing the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic ideas behind neo-reaction and the Dark Enlightenment, which he named.

  1. ^ Fisher, Mark (2014) [2012]. "Terminator vs Avatar". In Mackay, Robin; Avanessian, Armen (eds.). #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader. pp. 341–2.
  2. ^ Beckett, Andy (11 May 2017). "Accelerationism: How a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 11 April 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  3. ^ Mackay, Robin; Avanessian, Armen (2014). "Introduction". In Mackay, Robin; Avanessian, Armen (eds.). #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader (PDF). Falmouth: Urbanomic. pp. 1–46. ISBN 978-0-9575295-5-7. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  4. ^ Mackay, Robin; Brassier, Ray (2018). "Editors' Introduction". Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987–2007 (6 ed.). Urbanomic. p. 8. ISBN 9780955308789.
  5. ^ Fisher, Mark (1 June 2011). "Nick Land: Mind Games". Dazed and Confused. Archived from the original on 9 June 2018. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  6. ^ Land, Nick (2011). Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987–2007. Introduction by Ray Brassier and Robin Mackay. Falmouth: Urbanomic. ISBN 978-0955308789.
  7. ^ Mackay, Robin (27 February 2013). "Nick Land – An Experiment in Inhumanism". Divus. Archived from the original on 25 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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