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Nick Land 
Full name Nick Land Born 17 January 1962 Era Contemporary philosophy Region British philosophy School Continental philosophy Main interests Nihilism, Cybernetics, Mathematics, Ontology Notable ideas Hyperstition, libidinal materialism Influenced- Ray Brassier, Reza Negarestani
Nick Land (born in 1962) was a lecturer in Continental Philosophy from 1987 to 1999 at the University of Warwick, UK. He was the faculty co-founder, along with Sadie Plant, of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) at Warwick. He is the author of The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism and Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, along with various articles on cybernetic culture.
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Bibliography
Original works
- The Thirst For Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (London and New York: Routledge, 1992)
- Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007 with an introduction by Ray Brassier and Robin Mackay (Falmouth, UK: Urbanomic, 2011)
See also
External links
- Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut, French Philosophy of the Sixties: An Essay on Anti-Humanism; Nick Land, The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies Issue 11, 1996)
- Organisation is Suppression (Interview with Nick Land) in Wired UK Issue 3.02, 1997
- Urbanomic: Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007
- Renegade Academia: history of the CCRU by Simon Reynolds
- Urban Future Land's current blog
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