Nick Srnicek
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Nick Srnicek (born 1982) is a writer, noted for his left-wing politics.
Biography
Born in 1982,[1] Srnicek took a double major in Psychology and Philosophy[2] before completing an MA at the University of Western Ontario in 2007.[3] He proceeded to a PhD at the London School of Economics, completing his thesis in 2013 on "Representing complexity: the material construction of world politics".[4] 2016 saw him working as a Visiting Lecturer at City University and the University of Westminster.[5]
Srnicek is associated with the philosophy of accelerationism.
Major publications
- Platform Capitalism (Polity, 2016)
- with Alex Williams, Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (Verso, 2015)
- with Alex Williams, '#ACCELERATE: Manifesto for an accelerationist politics', in Dark Trajectories: Politics of the Outside, ed. by Joshua Johnson (New York: Name Publications, 2013), pp. 135-55, https://www.academia.edu/2379428
- (ed., with Levi Bryant and Graham Harman), The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism (Re.press, 2011)
External links
References
- ↑ Katarzyna Piasecka, 'Accelerationism: Tomorrow, we're not going to work!', CafeBabel (Feb. 22, 2016), http://www.cafebabel.co.uk/society/article/accelerationism-tomorrow-were-not-going-to-work.html.
- ↑ Laureano Ralón, ' Interview with Nick Srnicek', Figure/Ground (29 December 2011), http://figureground.org/interview-with-nick-srnicek/
- ↑ Nick Srnicek, 'Assemblage Theory, Complexity and Contentious Politics: The Political Ontology of Gilles Deleuze' (Unpublished MA thesis, University of Western Ontario, 2007), https://www.academia.edu/178031.
- ↑ Nick Srnicek, 'Representing complexity: the material construction of world politics' (unpublished PhD thesis, The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2013).
- ↑ Katarzyna Piasecka, 'Accelerationism: Tomorrow, we're not going to work!', CafeBabel (Feb. 22, 2016), http://www.cafebabel.co.uk/society/article/accelerationism-tomorrow-were-not-going-to-work.html.
