Nick Land was born on 14 March 1962 and is an English philosopher who has been described as "the Godfather of accelerationism".
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Nick Land's work has been tied to the development of speculative realism, and departs from the formal conventions of academic writing, incorporating unorthodox and esoteric influences.
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Nick Land coined the term "hyperstition" to refer to memetic ideas which bring about their own reality.
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Nick Land resigned from Warwick in 1998, after which he moved to China.
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Nick Land's related writings have explored anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic ideas.
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Nick Land obtained a PhD in 1987 in the University of Essex under David Farrell Krell, with a thesis on Heidegger's 1953 essay, which is about Georg Trakl's work.
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Nick Land began as a lecturer in Continental philosophy at the University of Warwick from 1987 until his resignation in 1998.
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Nick Land published an abundance of shorter texts, many in the 1990s during his time with the CCRU.
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One session involved Nick Land "lying on the ground, croaking into a mic", recalls Robin Mackay, while Mackay played jungle records in the background.
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Nick Land's writing has variously discussed themes of scientific racism and eugenics, or what he briefly called "hyper-racism".
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Nick Land disputes that the NRx is a movement, and defines the alt-right as distinct from the NRx.
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Mark Fisher, a British cultural theorist and student of Nick Land's, argued in 2011 that Nick Land's greatest impact so far had been on music and art, rather than on philosophy.
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The musician Kode9, the artist Jake Chapman, and others studied with or describe their influence by Nick Land, often highlighting Nick Land's inhuman, "technilist", or "delirious" qualities.