Nick Srnicek (born 1982) is a Canadian writer and academic. He is currently a lecturer in

Digital Economy The digital economy is a portmanteau of digital computing and economy, and is an umbrella term that describes how traditional brick-and-mortar economic activities (production, distribution, trade) are being transformed by Internet, World Wide Web ...

in the

Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London The Department of Digital Humanities (DDH) is an academic department and research centre in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King's College London. DDH counts amongst the "most visible" digital humanities centres worldwide. Its research activ ...

. Srnicek is associated with the

political theory Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, ...

accelerationism Accelerationism is a range of Marxist and reactionary ideas in critical and social theory that call for the drastic intensification of capitalist growth, technological change and other social processes in order to destabilize existing systems ...

and a

post-scarcity economy Post-scarcity is a theoretical economic situation in which most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor needed, so that they become available to all very cheaply or even freely. Post-scarcity does not mean that scarc ...

Biography

Srnicek took a double major in Psychology and Philosophy before completing an MA at the

University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario (UWO), also known as Western University or Western, is a public research university in London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by residential neighbourhoods and the Thames R ...

in 2007. He proceeded to a PhD at the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 milli ...

, completing his thesis in 2013 on "Representing complexity: the material construction of world politics". He has worked as a Visiting Lecturer at City University and the

University of Westminster The University of Westminster is a public university based in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1838 as the Royal Polytechnic Institution, it was the first polytechnic to open in London. The Polytechnic formally received a Royal charter in Aug ...

Bibliography

* (ed., with

Levi Bryant Levi Bryant, born Paul Reginald Bryant, is a professor of philosophy at Collin College in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. Bryant has written extensively about post-structural and cultural theory, including the work of Gilles Deleuze, ...

and

Graham Harman Graham Harman (born May 9, 1968) is an American philosopher and academic. He is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. His work on the metaphysics of objects led to the developme ...

), ''The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism'' (Re.press, 2011), introduction at https://www.academia.edu/178033 * 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 * with Alex Williams, 'On Cunning Automata: Financial Acceleration at the Limits of the Dromological', in ''Collapse 8'', ed. by Robin MacKay (Windsor Quary, UK: Urbanomic, 2013), pp. 9–52, https://www.urbanomic.com/book/collapse-8/ * * ''Platform Capitalism'' (Polity, 2016): http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509504862 *Hester, Helen and Nick Srnicek (2020
After Work: The Fight for Free Time
London: Verso. ;Critical studies and reviews of Srnicek's work *Online version is titled "Is there any point to protesting?" Reviews ''Inventing the future''. *Lowrie, Ian (November 17, 2015)
"On Algorithmic Communism"
''Los Angeles Review Of Books''. Reviews ''Inventing the future''.

References

External links

Academia.edu page

Verso authors page

The Guardian profile page
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Interviews

* L. Ralón (2011). "Interview with Nick Srnicek," ''Figure/Ground''. December 29. 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''. July 15. 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''. October 16. 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''. February 27. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08fgvln {{DEFAULTSORT:Srnicek, Nick 1982 births Living people 21st-century Canadian writers Canadian academics Critical theorists Critics of work and the work ethic Accelerationism