Nick Land

Nick Land (born 17 January 1962) is an English philosopher who has been described as "the Godfather of accelerationism".[2] His work has been tied to the development of speculative realism.[3][4] He was a leader of the 1990s "theory-fiction" collective Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) after its original founder cyberfeminist theorist Sadie Plant left it.[5][6] His work departs from the formal conventions of academic writing and embraces a wide range of influences, as well as exploring unorthodox and "dark" philosophical interests.[7] Land is also known for later developing the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic ideas behind neo-reactionary and the Dark Enlightenment, which he named. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Land