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Nick Land (born 1962) is an English philosopher and writer. Land was a lecturer in Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick from 1987 until his resignation in 1998.〔(Mackay, Robin. "Nick Land: An Experiment in Inhumanism." ''Divus''. 27 February 2013. )〕 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.〔(Fisher, Mark. "Nick Land: Mind Games." ''Dazed and Confused''. )〕 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''. Land is founder of two electronic presses, Urbanatomy Electronic and Time Spiral Press (with Anna Greenspan). He currently works as an editor at Urbanatomy in Shanghai, and teaches at the New Centre for Research & Practice. Land's work is noted for its unorthodox interspersion of philosophical theory with fiction, science, poetry, and performance art. His writing is credited with pioneering the genre known as "theory-fiction".〔(Mackay, Robin. "Nick Land: An Experiment in Inhumanism." ''Divus''. 27 February 2013. )〕 The work of Land and the Ccru has been tied to the development of accelerationism and speculative realism.〔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''. )〕 More recently, Land has been described as one of the originators of the Dark Enlightenment, a neoreactionary movement that opposes universalism and egalitarianism.〔Bryce Laliberte, (It's Not Racist to seek an "Exit" ). ''The Daily Caller''. 8 November 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2014〕 ==Cybernetic Culture Research Unit== The Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (Ccru) was founded around Sadie Plant in 1995 as a student-run interdisciplinary research collective, originally out of the University of Warwick's philosophy department.〔(Mackay, Robin. "Nick Land: An Experiment in Inhumanism." ''Divus''. 27 February 2013. )〕 The collective's research was closely tied to the work of Plant, Nick Land, and their colleagues throughout the 1990s, in particular the emerging cyberfeminist thinking that would lead to the ''Virtual Futures'' conferences at Warwick in the middle of the decade.〔Simon Reynolds, '(Reynolds, Simon. "Renegade Aacdemia" )', unpublished feature for Lingua Franca, 1999. Accessed 27 December 2014.〕 Ultimately, Plant would abandon her academic post and affiliation with the Ccru in 1997, during which time it came under the direction of Land. Under his leadership, the collective became increasingly experimental and unorthodox in its work, with its output (which included writing, performance events, and collaborative art) crossing post-structuralism, science-fiction, performance art, rave culture, cybernetics, and occult studies.〔(Mackay, Robin. "Nick Land: An Experiment in Inhumanism." ''Divus''. 27 February 2013. )〕〔Simon Reynolds, '(Reynolds, Simon. "Renegade Aacdemia" )', unpublished feature for Lingua Franca, 1999. Accessed 27 December 2014.〕 Although it only existed in an official capacity for little over two years—following the departure of Plant, the University of Warwick would deny any relationship to the renegade collective—the Ccru's cultural impact has been significant.〔(Fisher, Mark. "Nick Land: Mind Games." ''Dazed and Confused''. )〕〔Simon Reynolds, '(Renegade Aacdemia )', unpublished feature for Lingua Franca, 1999. Accessed 27 December 2014.〕 Those who were affiliated with the Ccru during and after its time as part of the University of Warwick Philosophy department include philosophers Iain Hamilton Grant, Ray Brassier and Reza Negarestani; cultural theorists Mark Fisher and Kodwo Eshun; publisher and philosopher Robin Mackay; digital media theorists Luciana Parisi and Matthew Fuller; electronic music artist and Hyperdub label head Steve Goodman, aka Kode9; writer and theorist Anna Greenspan; novelist Hari Kunzru; and artists Jake and Dinos Chapman, among others.〔(Mackay, Robin. "Nick Land: An Experiment in Inhumanism." ''Divus''. 27 February 2013. )〕〔(Fisher, Mark. "Nick Land: Mind Games." ''Dazed and Confused''. )〕 Land and the Ccru collaborated frequently with the experimental art collective ] (Maggie Roberts and Ranu Mukherjee), notably on ''Syzygy'', a month-long multidisciplinary residency at Beaconsfield Contemporary Art gallery in South London, 1999, and on 0()d()'s ''Cyberpositive'' (London: Cabinet, 1995), a schizoid work of cut-and-paste cyberphilosophy.〔(Orphan Drift archive )〕 The role played by Land, Plant, and the Ccru in the development of what has come to be known as Accelerationism is profound, and its legacy is apparent in contemporary debates concerning the viability of the theory in its various guises.〔Robin Mackay and Armen Avanessian, '(Introduction )' to ''#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader'', (Falmouth: Urbanomic, 2014) pp.1-46〕 It is important to note that accelerationism as it was deployed by the Ccru should be distinguished from the term more frequently associated with Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams’ ‘(Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics )’.〔Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams, ‘(#Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics ),’ Dark Trajectories: Politics of the Outside, ed. Joshua Johnson (Hong Kong, NAME, 2013)〕 Land himself makes this distinction clear in his commentary on the manifesto.〔Nick Land, (#Accelerate ); Annotated #Accelerate ((1 ), (2 ), (3 )); On #Accelerate ((1 ), (2a ), (2b ), (2c )), series of posts made on Urban Future 2.1 between 13 February and 11 March 2014.〕 In 2015, a collection of Ccru pieces entitled ''Ccru: Writings 1997-2003'' was published.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ccru: Writings 1997-2003 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nick Land」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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