Nationality British Role Philosopher | Name Nick Land Region Western Philosophy | |
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Born 17 January 1962 (age 62) ( 1962-01-17 ) Main interests NihilismCyberneticsOntologyAntihumanismMathematicsCyberpunkOccultismAccelerationismHorror Notable ideas HyperstitionAccelerationismLibidinal MaterialismTic-XenotationNumogramatics Influenced Reza Negarestani, Luc Ferry, Ray Brassier Books The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism : an Essay in Atheistic Religion Influenced by Gilles Deleuze, Friedrich Nietzsche Similar People Ray Brassier, Gilles Deleuze, Georges Bataille, Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant | ||
Nick Land - Q&A with Yoel Regev and Diana Khamis, 2015
Nick Land (born 17 January 1962) is an English philosopher, short-story Horror writer, blogger, and "the father of accelerationism".
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- Nick Land QA with Yoel Regev and Diana Khamis 2015
- Future now making the machines of tomorrow nick land
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His writing is credited with pioneering the genre known as "theory-fiction". A cofounder of the 1990s collective Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, his work has been tied to the development of accelerationism and speculative realism.
Most recently, Land has been a primary theorist and the namer of the Dark Enlightenment, a "neoreactionary" philosophy that opposes egalitarianism and is sometimes associated with the alt-right or other right-wing movements.
Future now making the machines of tomorrow nick land
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. He is the author of The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism, published in 1992, in addition to an abundance of shorter texts, many of which were published in the 1990s during Land's time with the Ccru. The majority of these articles were compiled in the retrospective collection Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, published in 2011.
He currently works as an editor at Urbanatomy in Shanghai, and (until April 2017) taught at the New Centre for Research & Practice. Land's work is noted for its unorthodox interspersion of philosophical theory with fiction, science, poetry, and performance art. He has recently started writing psychological horror fiction.
Land is founder of two electronic presses, Urbanatomy Electronic and Time Spiral Press (with Anna Greenspan).