What is Nick Land’s philosophy of accelerationism really? | Aeon Essays

is a philosopher, PhD graduate from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and former researcher in The Terraforming think tank at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture, and Design in Moscow, Russia. He is the co-editor of One Hundred and Fifty Years of Tragedy: Nietzsche, Art, Philosophy (2025) and the author of Unknown Lands: Decoding Nick Land’s Accelerationist Philosophy (2025). He also writes the Substack Architechtonics. Edited byCameron Allan McKean Listen to this essay 43 minute listen It surfaces in terrorism reports and tech presentations, in the manifestos of mass shooters and the public declarations of billionaires. What is ‘accelerationism’? Over the past decade, especially the past few years, this term has migrated from the dark corners of the internet into mainstream politics and culture – and in the process has split into two dominant forms that could not be more contradictory. One group of accelerationists dreams of burning down the world and building a white e

saved by

• John Böllhoff
• aniket