Nick Land

Nick Land
Born	17 January 1962
Nationality	British
Era	Contemporary Philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Continental Philosophy Dark Enlightenment
Main interests	Dark Enlightenment Nihilism Cybernetics Ontology Antihumanism Mathematics Cyberpunk Occultism Accelerationism Horror
Notable ideas	Hyperstition Accelerationism Libidinal Materialism Tic-Xenotation Numogramatics
Influences Bataille, Deleuze, Guattari, Nietzsche, Gödel, Burroughs, Cantor, Gibson, Reich, Lovecraft, Schopenhauer, Crowley, Kant, Hoppe, Moldbug
Influenced Brassier, Grant, Trent, Parisi, Negarestani, Eshun, Fisher, Grant, Kode9, Dark Enlightenment

Nick Land (born 1962) is an English philosopher and writer.

Land's writing is credited with pioneering the genre known as "theory-fiction".^[1] The work of Land and the Ccru has been tied to the development of accelerationism and speculative realism.^[2][3][4] More recently, Land has been a primary theorist and the namer of the Dark Enlightenment, a neoreactionary movement that opposes egalitarianism.^[5]

History

Land was a lecturer in Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick from 1987 until his resignation in 1998.^[6] 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.^[7] The majority of these articles were compiled in the retrospective collection Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, published in 2011. The most recent of his writings can be found in various issues of Collapse, an independent UK-based journal for philosophical research and development, and #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader.

He currently works as an editor at Urbanatomy in Shanghai, and teaches at the New Centre for Research & Practice.^[8] Land's work is noted for its unorthodox interspersion of philosophical theory with fiction, science, poetry, and performance art.^[9] He has recently started writing psychological horror fiction.

Land is founder of two electronic presses, Urbanatomy Electronic and Time Spiral Press (with Anna Greenspan).

Bibliography

Books

• The Thirst For Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (London and New York: Routledge, 1992)
• Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007 with an introduction by Ray Brassier and Robin Mackay (Falmouth, UK: Urbanomic, 2011)
• Templexity: Disordered Loops through Shanghai Time (Urbanatomy Electronic, 2014)
• Phyl-Undhu (Time Spiral Press, 2014)

External links

• Outside In (Land's Dark Enlightenment blog)
• Urban Future (2.1) (Land's accelerationism blog)

References

1. Mackay, Robin. "Nick Land: An Experiment in Inhumanism." Divus. 27 February 2013.
2. Robin Mackay and Armen Avanessian, 'Introduction' to #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader, (Falmouth: Urbanomic, 2014) pp.1-46
3. Fisher, Mark. "Nick Land: Mind Games." Dazed and Confused.
4. Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007',' Introduction by Ray Brassier and Robin Mackay (Falmouth, UK: Urbanomic, 2011)
5. Bryce Laliberte, It's Not Racist to seek an "Exit". The Daily Caller. 8 November 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2014
6. Mackay, Robin. "Nick Land: An Experiment in Inhumanism." Divus. 27 February 2013.
7. Fisher, Mark. "Nick Land: Mind Games." Dazed and Confused.
8. Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, Introduction by Ray Brassier and Robin Mackay (Falmouth, UK: Urbanomic, 2011)
9. Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, Introduction by Ray Brassier and Robin Mackay (Falmouth, UK: Urbanomic, 2011)