Nick Land
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| Born | 17 January 1962 |
| Nationality | British |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy[1] Accelerationism Speculative realism |
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Nick Land (born 17 January 1962) is an English philosopher, short-story horror writer, blogger, and "the father of accelerationism".[2]
His writing is credited with pioneering the genre known as "theory-fiction".[3] A cofounder of the 1990s collective Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, his work has been tied to the development of accelerationism and speculative realism.[4][5][6]
Work[edit]
Land was a lecturer in Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick from 1987 until his resignation in 1998.[7] 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.[8] 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)[9] taught at the New Centre for Research & Practice.[10] Land's work is noted for its unorthodox interspersion of philosophical theory with fiction, science, poetry, and performance art.[11] He has recently started writing psychological horror fiction.
Land is founder of two electronic presses, Urbanatomy Electronic and Time Spiral Press (with Anna Greenspan).[citation needed]
Concepts[edit]
Nick Land's work with CCRU, as well as his pre-Dark Enlightenment writings, have all been hugely influential to the political philosophy of accelerationism. Kodwo Eshun, a prominent UK afrofuturist theorist, has asked "Is Nick Land the most important British philosopher of the past twenty years?" [12] Along with the other members of CCRU, Land wove together ideas from the occult, cybernetics, science fiction, and poststructuralist philosophy to describe the phenomena of techno-capitalist acceleration. One of Land's most important concepts is "hyperstition," a portmanteau of "superstition" and "hyper" that describes the action of successful ideas in the arena of culture. [13]
Most recently, Land has been a prominent theorist and namer of the Dark Enlightenment, a "neoreactionary" philosophy that opposes egalitarianism and is sometimes associated with the alt-right or other right-wing movements.[14][15] Shuja Haider notes, "His sequence of essays setting out its principles have become the foundation of the NRx canon."[16]
Bibliography[edit]
Books[edit]
- The Thirst For Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (An Essay in Atheistic Religion) (London and New York: Routledge, 1992)
- (w/ Keith Ansell-Pearson & Joseph A. McCahery) Machinic Postmodernism: Complexity, Technics and Regulation (SAGE Publications, 1996)
- The Shanghai World Expo Guide 2010 (China Intercontinental Press, 2010)
- Shanghai Basics (China Intercontinental Press, 2010)
- Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007 (Falmouth, UK: Urbanomic, 2011)
- Calendric Dominion (Urbanatomy Electronic, 2013)
- Suspended Animation (Urbanatomy Electronic, 2013)
- Fission (Urbanomic, 2014)
- Templexity: Disordered Loops through Shanghai Time (Urbanatomy Electronic, 2014)
- Phyl-Undhu: Abstract Horror, Exterminator (Time Spiral Press, 2014)
- Shanghai Times (Urbanatomy Electronic, 2014)
- Dragon Tales: Glimpses of Chinese Culture (Urbanatomy Electronic, 2014)
- Xinjiang Horizons (Urbanatomy Electronic, 2014)
- Chasm (Time Spiral Press, 2015)
Articles[edit]
- Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest: A Polemical Introduction to the Configuration of Philosophy and Modernity (Third Text Vol. 2, Issue 5, 1988)
- Narcissism and Dispersion in Heidegger's 1953 Trakl Interpretation (Philosophers' Poets, Routledge, 1990)
- Delighted to Death (Pli - The Warwick Journal of Philosophy Vol. 3, Issue 2, 1991)
- Art as Insurrection: The Question of Aesthetics in Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche (Nietzsche and Modern German Thought, Routledge, 1991)
- Circuitries (Pli - The Warwick Journal of Philosophy Vol. 4, Issue 1/2, 1992)
- Spirit and Teeth (Of Derrida, Heidegger, and Spirit, Northwestern University Press, 1993)
- After the Law (Closure or Critique: New Directions in Legal Theory, Edinburgh University Press, 1993)
- Machinic Desire (Textual Practice Volume 7, Issue 3: Desire, 1993)
- Making It with Death: Remarks on Thanatos and Desiring-Production (Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology Vol. 24, Issue 1, 1993)
- (w/ Sadie Plant) Cyberpositive (Unnatural: Techno-Theory for a Contaminated Culture, Underground, 1994)
- Shamanic Nietzsche (Nietzsche: A Critical Reader, Wiley, 1995)
- Machines and Technocultural Complexity: The Challenge of the Deleuze-Guattari Conjunction (Theory, Culture & Society Volume 12, Issue 2, 1995)
- Meat (or How to Kill Oedipus in Cyberspace) (Body & Society, Vol. 1, No. 3-4, 1995)
- Cyberrevolution (***Collapse 1, Privately Published, 1995)
- Hypervirus (***Collapse 2, Privately Published, 1995)
- A zIIgothIc–==X=coDA==–(CookIng–lobsteRs– wIth–jAke–AnD–DInos) (Chapmanworld, ICA Publications, 1996)
- Cyberspace Anarchitecture as Jungle-War (Architectural Design 118: Architects in Cyberspace, 1996)
- Meltdown (Abstract Culture 1, CCRU, 1997)
- CyberGothic (Virtual Futures: Cyberotics, Technology and Posthuman Pragmatism, Routledge, 1998)
- Mechanomics (Pli - The Warwick Journal of Philosophy Vol. 7, 1998)
- Qabbala 101 (Collapse Volume I: Numerical Materialism, Urbanomic Press, 2012)
- Teleoplexy: Notes on Acceleration (#ACCELERATE: The Accelerationist Reader, Urbanomic, 2014)
- Odds and Ends: On Ultimate Risk (Collapse Volume VIII: Casino Real, Urbanomic, 2014)
- Neurosys (Parasol: Journal of the Centre for Experimental Ontology, Parasol Press, 2017)
References[edit]
- ^ Fisher, Mark (2014) [2012]. "Terminator vs Avatar". In Mackay, Robin; Avanessian, Armen. #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader. pp. 341–2.
- ^ Beckett, Andy. "Accelerationism: How a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in." The Guardian. 11 May 2017.
- ^ Mackay, Robin. "Nick Land: An Experiment in Inhumanism." Divus. 27 February 2013.
- ^ Robin Mackay and Armen Avanessian, 'Introduction' to #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader, (Falmouth: Urbanomic, 2014) pp.1-46
- ^ Fisher, Mark. "Nick Land: Mind Games." Dazed and Confused.
- ^ Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, Introduction by Ray Brassier and Robin Mackay (Falmouth, UK: Urbanomic, 2011)
- ^ Mackay, Robin. "Nick Land: An Experiment in Inhumanism." Divus. 27 February 2013.
- ^ Fisher, Mark. "Nick Land: Mind Games." Dazed and Confused.
- ^ Statement on Nick Land, The New Centre for Research & Practice
- ^ Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, Introduction by Ray Brassier and Robin Mackay (Falmouth, UK: Urbanomic, 2011)
- ^ Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, Introduction by Ray Brassier and Robin Mackay (Falmouth, UK: Urbanomic, 2011)
- ^ http://markfisherreblog.tumblr.com/post/32521254502/is-nick-land-the-most-important-british
- ^ http://merliquify.com/blog/articles/hyperstition/#.Wl1fIZM-dp9
- ^ Bryce Laliberte, It's Not Racist to seek an "Exit". The Daily Caller. 8 November 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2014
- ^ https://www.vox.com/2016/4/18/11434098/alt-right-explained
- ^ Haider, Shuja (28 March 2017). "The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction". Viewpoint Magazine.
External links[edit]
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- Outside In (Land's Dark Enlightenment blog)
- Urban Future (2.1) (Land's accelerationism blog)
