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Who Is Nick Land?

JL;DR SUMMARY Nick Land is a provocative thinker known for his accelerationist philosophy, suggesting a future driven by hyperintelligent capitalism that transcends humanity. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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PhilosophyTechnologyPostmodernismFuturismMarc AndreessenNick LandAccelerationismCyberneticsCybercultureTheory Fiction

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Shanghai, China
"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."
London, England, United Kingdom
"Far away in Shanghai, with his own independent platform and audience, the actual power of the activists to suppress him was limited; in the end, their campaign only increased his mystique."
Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom
"He then briefly relocated to Leamington Spa, a faded Victorian resort town where Aleister Crowley was born, before moving to London to circulate between sofas."
Warwick, England, United Kingdom
"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."
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
"Fueled by escalating quantities of amphetamines, LSD, and cannabis, and abetted by a new group of collaborators after cyberfeminist cultural theorist Sadie Plant transferred to Warwick from Birmingham, he began moving away from the strictures of academic philosophy in favor of increasingly wild experimentation."
London, United Kingdom
"Land resigned from Warwick in 1997. He then briefly relocated to Leamington Spa, a faded Victorian resort town where Aleister Crowley was born, before moving to London to circulate between sofas."
England, United Kingdom
"Two years earlier, a group called the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (Ccru) had been established at Warwick as part of the deal which had brought Sadie Plant from Birmingham."
United States
"In November 2016, Donald Trumps shock victory in the U.S. presidential election finished off the mental breakdown of the global left."
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
"A few months after Fishers slim treatise began hitting the shelves, a disaffected Bay Area libertarian writing under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug began to publish a blog called Unqualified Reservations."

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