Benjamin Noys | |
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Born | 1969 |
Occupation | Professor of Critical Theory |
Known for | Coining the term accelerationism |
Benjamin Noys is a professor of critical theory at the University of Chichester [1] and the theorist who coined the term accelerationism within cultural ideology. [2] [3]
Benjamin Noys completed a BSc at Brunel University and both MA and DPhil from Sussex University. [1]
Noys is an academic critical theorist who is best known for borrowing the term accelerationism from the science fiction author Roger Zelazny and developing it within cultural and intellectual contexts. [4] [2] While Noys is a critic of accelerationism, [5] this theory is used by many far-left [6] and far-right [7] [8] extremists to justify speeding up societal changes to break the current system and allow society to rebuild in a post-capitalistic world. [9]
Noys has also been a critic of cryptocurrency, which has been linked to accelerationism. [10]