Nick Land

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: George Bataille and Virulent Nihilism and, more recently, various articles on cybernetic culture.

Date of birth:

  • 1962 (age 48 years)
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