Nick Land

English philosopher (born 1962)

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Nick Land

Born|  (1962-03-14) 14 March 1962 (age 63)
Nationality| British
Philosophical work
Era| Contemporary philosophy
Region| Western philosophy
School| Continental philosophy[1]
Accelerationism
Dark Enlightenment
Institutions| University of Warwick
Main interests|

* Acceleration
* nihilism
* materialism
* cybernetics
* antihumanism
* cyberpunk
* horror

Notable ideas| Accelerationism

Nick Land (born 14 March 1962) is an English philosopher best known for popularising the ideology of accelerationism.[2] His work has been tied to the development of speculative realism,[3][4] and departs from the formal conventions of academic writing, incorporating unorthodox and esoteric influences.[5] Much of his writing was anthologized in the 2011 collection Fanged Noumena.

In the 1990s, Land was closely affiliated with the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU), a "theory-fiction" collective co-founded by Land and cyberfeminist philosopher Sadie Plant at the University of Warwick.[6][7] During this era, Land drew inspiration from post-structuralist theory and leftist thinkers like Bataille, Marx, and Deleuze & Guattari as well as science fiction, rave culture, and the occult.[8] He also coined the term hyperstition to refer to memetic ideas which bring about their own reality.

Land resigned from Warwick in 1998. Following a period of amphetamine abuse, he suffered a breakdown in the early 2000s and disappeared from public view.[9] Later, he moved to China and re-emerged as a figure on the political right, becoming a foundational thinker in the reactionary movement known as the Dark Enlightenment. His related writings have explored anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic ideas.

## Biography

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Land obtained a PhD in 1987 in the University of Essex under David Farrell Krell, with a thesis on Heidegger's 1953 essay Die Sprache im Gedicht, which is about Georg Trakl's work.[10] He began as a lecturer in continental philosophy at the University of Warwick from 1987 until his resignation in 1998.[5] In 1992, he published The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism.[11] Land published an abundance of shorter texts, many in the 1990s during his time with the CCRU.[6] The majority of these articles were compiled in the retrospective collection Fanged Noumena, published in 2011.

At Warwick, Land and Sadie Plant co-founded the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU), an interdisciplinary research group described by philosopher Graham Harman as "a diverse group of thinkers who experimented in conceptual production by welding together a wide variety of sources: futurism, technoscience, philosophy, mysticism, numerology, complexity theory, and science fiction, among others".[12] During his time at Warwick, Land participated in Virtual Futures, a series of cyber-culture conferences. Virtual Futures 96 was advertised as "an anti-disciplinary event" and "a conference in the post-humanities". One session involved Nick Land "lying on the ground, croaking into a mic", recalls Robin Mackay, while Mackay played jungle records in the background."[13] He was also the thesis advisor of some PhD students.[14] Following his resignation, the CCRU continued meeting under his leadership. In the early 2000s, Land suffered a breakdown after a period of "fanatical" amphetamine abuse, disappearing from the public.[13]

Land taught at the New Centre for Research & Practice until March 2017, when the Centre ended its relationship with him "following several tweets by Land this year in which he espoused intolerant opinions about Muslims and immigrants".[15][better source needed]

As of 2017[update], Land resided in Shanghai.[16]

## Concepts

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Transhumanism

Issues

* Accelerating change
* Eradication of suffering

* Fourth Industrial Revolution

* Human enhancement
* Genetic
* Moral
* Neuro-
* Cognitive liberty
* New eugenics
* Eugenics
* Human nature
* Meliorism
* Post-politics
* Post-scarcity

People

* Andrews
* Bostrom
* Church
* Cordeiro
* de Chardin
* Drexler
* Fahy
* FM-2030
* Freitas
* Fyodorov
* Fuller
* de Garis
* Gasson
* Goertzel
* de Grey
* Haldane
* Hanson
* Harari
* Harbisson
* Harris
* Huxley
* Hughes
* Istvan
* Johnson
* Kurzweil
* Land
* Moen
* Moravec
* More
* Musk
* Pearce
* Rothblatt
* Sandberg
* Savulescu
* Sorgner
* Spencer
* Stock
* Stolyarov
* Thiel
* Vinge
* Vita-More
* Walker
* Warwick
* Wiener
* Yudkowsky

Influential works

* Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486)
* Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)
* Looking Backward  (1888)
* The Will to Power (~1901)
* Daedalus (1924)
* La raza cósmica (1925)
* The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
* The Dialectic of Sex (1970)
* Metaman (1993)
* The Hedonistic Imperative (1995)
* Regeln für den Menschenpark (1997)
* The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999)
* Citizen Cyborg (2004)
* The Singularity Is Near (2005)
* Human Enhancement (2009)
* Fanged Noumena (2011)
* The Transhumanist Wager (2013)
* Sapiens (2014)
* Homo Deus (2015)
* The Transhumanist Bill of Rights (2015)
* The Age of Em (2016)
* The Precipice (2020)
* What We Owe the Future (2022)
* "Techno-Optimist Manifesto" (2023)

Variants

* Accelerationism
* Effective
* Cypherpunk
* Dataism
* Extropianism
* Immortalism
* Longtermism
* Postgenderism
* Posthumanism
* Russian Cosmism
* Singularitarianism
* Technogaianism
* Technolibertarianism
* Technological utopianism
* Techno-progressivism

Related topics

* Dyson sphere
* Technologies
* Emerging
* Disruptive
* Hypothetical

* v
* t
* e

### Early work

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Land's work has been influential to the political philosophy of accelerationism. Land views capitalism as the driver of modernity and deterritorialization, advocating its use to dissolve existing social systems and reach a technological singularity.[2][17][18][19] Along with the other members of CCRU, Land wove together ideas from the occult, cybernetics, science fiction, and poststructuralist philosophy to try to describe the phenomena of technocapitalist acceleration.[2]

Land coined the term hyperstition, a portmanteau of superstition and hyper, to describe something which "is equipoised between fiction and technology". According to Land, hyperstitions are ideas that, by their very existence as ideas, bring about their own reality.[20][21]

### Later work

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Land has contributed to the Dark Enlightenment (also known as the neo-reactionary movement and abbreviated NRx), which opposes egalitarianism and democracy. According to reporter Dylan Matthews, Land believes democracy restricts accountability and freedom.[22] His Dark Enlightenment work also contributes to his accelerationism; he views democratic and egalitarian policies as only slowing down acceleration and the technocapital singularity. Thus, he prefers capitalist monarchies to pursue long-term technological progress, while he considers democracy to only focus on short-term public interests.[18][23] Shuja Haider notes, "His sequence of essays setting out its principles have become the foundation of the NRx canon."[21]

His writing has also discussed themes of scientific racism and eugenics, or what he has called "hyper-racism".[24][25][26][27] Since late 2016, he has increasingly been recognised as an inspiration for the alt-right.[28] Land disputes that NRx is a movement, and defines the alt-right as distinct from the NRx.[29]

## Reception and influence

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Mark Fisher, a British cultural theorist and student of Land's, argued in 2011 that Land's greatest impact so far had been on music and art rather than on philosophy. The musician Kode9, the artist Jake Chapman, and others studied with or were influenced by Land, with Chapman highlighting Land's "technilism".[6] Fisher underscores in particular how Land's personality during the 1990s could catalyze changes in those engaging with his work through what Kodwo Eshun describes as a manner "immediately open, egalitarian, and absolutely unaffected by academic protocol" which could dramatise "theory as a geopolitico-historical epic".[6] Fisher has also written that "Land was our Nietzsche" in baiting progressive tendencies, mixing the reactionary and futuristic, and his writing style. He also praised Land's attacks on left-wing academia while taking issue with his interpretation of Deleuze and Guattari's views on capitalism.[30]

Nihilist philosopher Ray Brassier, also formerly from the University of Warwick, stated in 2017 that "Nick Land has gone from arguing 'Politics is dead', 20 years ago, to this completely old-fashioned, standard reactionary stuff."[31]

## Books

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* Heidegger's 'Die Sprache im Gedicht' and the Cultivation of the Grapheme Archived 31 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine (PhD Thesis, University of Essex, 1987).
* The Thirst For Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (An Essay in Atheistic Religion) (London and New York: Routledge, 1992).
* Machinic Postmodernism: Complexity, Technics and Regulation (with Keith Ansell-Pearson & Joseph A. McCahery) (SAGE Publications, 1996).[failed verification]
* The Shanghai World Expo Guide 2010 (China Intercontinental Press, 2010).
* Shanghai Basics (China Intercontinental Press, 2010).
* Land, Nick (2011). Mackay, Robin; Brassier, Ray (eds.). Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007. London: Urbanomic. ISBN 978-0955308789.
* 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) ASIN B00IGKZPBA.
* Dragon Tales: Glimpses of Chinese Culture (Urbanatomy Electronic, 2014) ASIN B00JNDHBGQ.
* Xinjiang Horizons (Urbanatomy Electronic, 2014) ASIN B00JNDHDVY.
* Chasm (Time Spiral Press, 2015) ASIN B019HBZ2Q4.
* The Dark Enlightenment (Imperium Press, 2022) ISBN 978-1922602688.
* Xenosystems (Passage Publishing, 2024) ASIN B0D8MNTVHY
* Urban Future (Noumena Institute, 2025) ISBN 978-1922602688.
* Outsideness: 2013–2023 (Noumena Institute, 2025) ISBN 978-0646712703.

## References

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1. ^ Fisher, Mark (2014) [2012]. "Terminator vs Avatar". In Mackay, Robin; Avanessian, Armen (eds.). #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader. pp. 341–2.
2. ^ a b c Beckett, Andy (11 May 2017). "Accelerationism: How a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 11 April 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
3. ^ Mackay, Robin; Avanessian, Armen (2014). "Introduction". In Mackay, Robin; Avanessian, Armen (eds.). #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader (PDF). Falmouth: Urbanomic. pp. 1–46\. ISBN 978-0-9575295-5-7. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
4. ^ Mackay, Robin; Brassier, Ray (2018). "Editors' Introduction". Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987–2007 (6 ed.). Urbanomic. p. 8\. ISBN 9780955308789.
5. ^ a b Mackay, Robin (27 February 2013). "Nick Land – An Experiment in Inhumanism". Divus. Archived from the original on 25 November 2020.
6. ^ a b c d Fisher, Mark (1 June 2011). "Nick Land: Mind Games". Dazed and Confused. Archived from the original on 9 June 2018. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
7. ^ Land, Nick (2011). Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987–2007. Introduction by Ray Brassier and Robin Mackay. Falmouth: Urbanomic. ISBN 978-0955308789.
8. ^ Wark, McKenzie. "On Nick Land". Verso. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
9. ^ Beckett, Andy (11 May 2017). "Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 11 April 2022. Retrieved 24 July 2019. "Land himself, after what he later described as "perhaps a year of fanatical abuse" of "the sacred substance amphetamine", and "prolonged artificial insomnia ... devoted to futile 'writing' practices", suffered a breakdown in the early 2000s, and disappeared from public view."
10. ^ Acknowledgement section of Heidegger's 'Die Sprache im Gedicht' and the Cultivation of the Grapheme Archived 31 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine (PhD Thesis, University of Essex, 1987)
11. ^ Wark, McKenzie (20 June 2017). "On Nick Land". Verso Books. Archived from the original on 14 July 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
12. ^ Harman, Graham (2011). The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism. re.press. ISBN 978-0980668346 - via Google Books.
13. ^ a b Beckett, Andy (11 May 2017). "Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 11 April 2022. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
14. ^ Sawhney, Deepak Narang (May 1996). Axiomatics : the apparatus of capitalism (Ph.D. dissertation). University of Warwick.
15. ^ "Statement on Nick Land". Facebook. 29 March 2017. Archived from the original on 7 September 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
16. ^ "Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in". The Guardian. 11 May 2017. Archived from the original on 11 May 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
17. ^ Le, Vincent (23 March 2018). ""These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends": Decrypting Westworld as Dual Coding and Corruption of Nick Land's Accelerationism". Colloquy: Text Theory Critique. (34): 3–23 - via EBSCO.
18. ^ a b Beauchamp, Zack (18 November 2019). "Accelerationism: the obscure idea inspiring white supremacist killers around the world". Vox. Vox Media. Archived from the original on 10 February 2025. Retrieved 1 June 2025.
19. ^ Jiménez de Cisneros, Roc (5 November 2014). "The Accelerationist Vertigo (II): Interview with Robin Mackay". Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. Archived from the original on 18 August 2019. Retrieved 1 June 2025.
20. ^ Carstens, Delphi; Land, Nick (2009). "Hyperstition: An Introduction: Delphi Carstens interviews Nick Land". Orphan Drift Archive. Archived from the original on 8 December 2020. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
21. ^ a b Haider, Shuja (28 March 2017). "The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction". Viewpoint Magazine. Archived from the original on 13 October 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
22. ^ Matthews, Dylan (25 August 2016). "Alt-right explained". Vox. Archived from the original on 31 August 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
23. ^ Le, Vincent (2018). "THE DECLINE OF POLITICS IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE? CONSTELLATIONS AND COLLISIONS BETWEEN NICK LAND AND RAY BRASSIER". Cosmos & History. 14 (3): 31–50 - via EBSCO Information Services.
24. ^ Burrows, Roger (10 June 2020). "On Neoreaction". The Sociological Review. Archived from the original on 21 December 2020. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
25. ^ Topinka, Robert (14 October 2019). ""Back to a Past that Was Futuristic": The Alt-Right and the Uncanny Form of Racism". b2o. Archived from the original on 28 October 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2019. "Land proposes an acceleration of the "explicitly superior" and already "genetically self-filtering elite" through a system of "assortative mating" that would offer a "class-structured mechanism for population diremption, on a vector toward neo-speciation"."
26. ^ Burrows, Roger (2018). "Urban Futures and The Dark Enlightenment: A Brief Guide for the Perplexed". In Jacobs, Keith; Malpas, Jeff (eds.). Towards a Philosophy of the City: Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives. London: Rowman & Littlefield.
27. ^ Land, Nick (4 October 2014). "HYPER-RACISM". Archived from the original on 7 October 2014.
28. ^ Bacharach, Jacob (23 November 2016). "I Was a Teenage Nazi Wannabe". The New Republic. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
* York, Chris (25 November 2016). "What Is The Alt-Right Movement And Who Is In It? The Frightening Rise And Rise Of The White Nationalists". HuffPost UK. Archived from the original on 24 January 2018. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
* Gray, Rosie (10 February 2017). "Behind the Internet's Anti-Democracy Movement". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
* Blincoe, Nicholas (18 May 2017). "Nick Land: the Alt-writer". Prospect Magazine. Archived from the original on 29 September 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
* Goldhill, Olivia (18 June 2017). "The neo-fascist philosophy that underpins both the alt-right and Silicon Valley technophiles". Quartz. Archived from the original on 18 June 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2019. ". He advocates for racial separation under the belief that "elites" will enhance their IQs by associating only with each other."
* Duesterberg, James (2 July 2017). "Final Fantasy: Neoreactionary politics and the liberal imagination". The Point. Archived from the original on 12 October 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
* Topinka, Robert (14 October 2019). "Back to a Past that Was Futuristic: The Alt-Right and the Uncanny Form of Racism". b2o. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
* Beauchamp, Zack (18 November 2019). "Accelerationism: the obscure idea inspiring white supremacist killers around the world/". Vox. Archived from the original on 18 February 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
29. ^ Gray, Rosie (10 February 2017). "The Anti-Democracy Movement Influencing the Right". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2019.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
30. ^ Fisher, Mark (2014). "Terminator vs Avatar". In Mackay, Robin; Avanessian, Armen (eds.). #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader. Urbanomic. pp. 335–46: 340, 342. ISBN 978-0957529557.
31. ^ Beckett, Andy (11 May 2017). "Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 11 April 2022.

## External links

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* Outsideness newsletter on Substack
* Outside In (Land's Dark Enlightenment blog, archived from the original on 2020-08-10)
* Urban Future (2.1) (Land's accelerationism blog, archived from the original on 2020-08-10)
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