Nick Land was born on 17 January 1962 and is an English philosopher, theorist, short story writer and blogger.
12 Facts About Nick Land
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Nick Land has been described as "the father of accelerationism", and his work has been tied to the development of speculative realism.
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Nick Land was a leader of the 1990s "theory-fiction" collective Cybernetic Culture Research Unit after its original founder cyberfeminist theorist Sadie Plant departed from it.
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Nick Land's 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.
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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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Nick Land describes hyperstition as "the experimental science of self-fulfilling prophecies".
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Matthews states that Nick Land believes democracy restricts accountability and freedom.
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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 has written on the implications for philosophy and politics of cryptocurrency, specifically Bitcoin.
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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.