Who Is Nick Land? - Tablet Magazine

Few thinkers have generated more fascination since the turn of the century than Nick Land. Originally an anarchic academic at the University of Warwick, and later the leader of an avant-garde-theory cult organized around cyberpunk, cybernetics, mumbo jumbo and drugs, Land today is a living meme and an oracle, generating a singular mixture of caustic political commentary and oblique numerological ravings on his seminal X account from Shanghai. Known as the “father of accelerationism” after his doctrine of hyperintelligent capitalism superseding humanity (a fate which he welcomes), in recent years Land has been linked with white nationalist terrorism by U.S. activist journalists, saluted by investor Marc Andreessen in his widely circulated Techno-Optimist Manifesto, and had his writing cross-examined for crimethink by a corrupt British barrister at the High Court in London. I was in the witness box on that occasion, defending the legitimacy of reading Land in the latest iteration of the

Few thinkers have generated more fascination since the turn of the century than Nick Land. Originally an anarchic academic at the University of Warwick, and later the leader of an avant-garde-theory cult organized around cyberpunk, cybernetics, mumbo jumbo and drugs, Land today is a living meme and an oracle, generating a singular mixture of caustic political commentary and oblique numerological ravings on his seminal X account from Shanghai. Known as the “father of accelerationism” after his doctrine of hyperintelligent capitalism superseding humanity (a fate which he welcomes), in recent yea