Nick Srnicek
Nick Srnicek | |
|---|---|
_(cropped).jpg) Srnicek in 2018 | |
| Education | |
| Education | London School of Economics |
| Thesis | |
| Kimberly Hutchings | |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Continental philosophy Speculative realism[1] Accelerationism | |
Main interests | Political philosophy |
Nick Srnicek (born 1982)[2] is a Canadian writer and academic. He is currently a lecturer in Digital Economy in the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London.[3] Srnicek is associated with the political theory of accelerationism and a post-scarcity economy.
Biography
[edit]Srnicek took a double major in psychology and philosophy,[4] before completing an MA at the University of Western Ontario in 2007.[5] He proceeded to a PhD in international relations at the London School of Economics, completing his thesis in 2013 on "Representing complexity: the material construction of world politics" under the supervision of Kimberly Hutchings.[6] He has worked as a visiting lecturer at City University and the University of Westminster.[7]
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Bibliography
[edit]- Bryant, Levi R.; Srnicek, Nick; Harman, Graham (2011). The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism. Anamnesis. Melbourne: Re.press. ISBN 978-0-9806683-4-6.
- Johnson, Joshua, ed. (2013). "#Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics". Dark Trajectories. Name Publications. pp. 135–55. ISBN 978-0-9840566-9-9. OCLC 892575302.
- Mackay, Robin, ed. (20 October 2014). Speculative Aesthetics. Urbanomic. ISBN 9780993045851.
- Mackay, Robin, ed. (December 2014). "On Cunning Automata: Financial Acceleration at the Limits of the Dromological". Collapse VIII: Casino Real. Collapse. Urbanomic. pp. 9–52. ISBN 978-0-9567750-2-3.
- Srnicek, Nick; Alex Williams (2015). Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work. London: Verso. ISBN 978-1-7847-8096-8.
- Salemy, Mohammad, ed. (2016). For Machine Use Only: Contemplations on Algorithmic Epistemology. Gwangju: The New Centre for Research & Practice. ISBN 978-0-692-77176-1.
- Graham, Mark; Shaw, Joe, eds. (2017). Towards A Fairer Gig Economy. Meatspace Press. ISBN 9780995577664.
- Srnicek, Nick (2017). Platform Capitalism. Polity. ISBN 978-1-5095-0486-2.
- Lijster, Thijs, ed. (2018). The Future of the New: Artistic Innovation in Times of Social Acceleration. Antennae - Arts in society. Amsterdam: Valiz. ISBN 978-94-92095-58-9.
- Hester, Helen; Srnicek, Nick (2023). After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time. Theory Redux. Verso. ISBN 978-1-78663-307-1.
- Srnicek, Nick (2025). Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI. Polity Press. ISBN 978-1-5095-5048-7.
- Critical studies and reviews of Srnicek's work
- Heller, Nathan (21 August 2017). "Out of action : do protests work?". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. Vol. 93, no. 24. pp. 70–77.[8] Reviews Inventing the future.
- Lowrie, Ian (17 November 2015). "On Algorithmic Communism". Los Angeles Review Of Books. Reviews Inventing the future.
References
[edit]- ↑ Bryant, Levi; Harman, Graham; Srnicek, Nick (2011). The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism. Melbourne, Australia: re.press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-9806683-4-6.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Katarzyna Piasecka, 'Accelerationism: Tomorrow, we're not going to work!', CafeBabel (22 February 2016), http://www.cafebabel.co.uk/society/article/accelerationism-tomorrow-were-not-going-to-work.html Archived 30 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Official page
- ↑ Laureano Ralón, ' Interview with Nick Srnicek', Figure/Ground (29 December 2011), http://figureground.org/interview-with-nick-srnicek/ Archived 16 July 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ 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[permanent dead link].
- ↑ Srnicek, Nick (2013). Representing complexity: the material construction of world politicse (PhD). London School of Economics. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
- ↑ Katarzyna Piasecka, 'Accelerationism: Tomorrow, we're not going to work!', CafeBabel (22 February 2016), http://www.cafebabel.co.uk/society/article/accelerationism-tomorrow-were-not-going-to-work.html Archived 30 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Online version is titled "Is there any point to protesting?"
External links
[edit]Interviews
[edit]- L. Ralón (2011). "Interview with Nick Srnicek," Figure/Ground. 29 December. https://web.archive.org/web/20160716103534/http://figureground.org/interview-with-nick-srnicek/
- C. Derick Varn and Dario Cankovich (2013). 'The Speed of Future Thought: Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek interviewed,' The North Star. 15 July. http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=9240
- Joseph Todd (2016). 'A world without work: an interview with Nick Srnicek, co-author of Inventing the Future', Red Pepper. 16 October. http://www.redpepper.org.uk/a-world-without-work-an-interview-with-nick-srnicek-co-author-of-inventing-the-future/
- Laurie Taylor (2017). 'Platform Capitalism', BBC Radio 4. 27 February. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08fgvln
Categories:
- 1982 births
- 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
- 21st-century Canadian male non-fiction writers
- Academics of City, University of London
- Academics of King's College London
- Academics of the University of Westminster
- Accelerationism
- Alumni of the London School of Economics
- Canadian academics
- Canadian expatriates in England
- Critical theorists
- Critics of work and the work ethic
- Living people
- Universal basic income writers
- University of Western Ontario alumni