Nick Srnicek

Nick Srnicek
Srnicek in 2018
Nationality	Canadian
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Speculative realism [1] Accelerationism
Thesis	Representing complexity: the material construction of world politics  (2013)
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

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 at the London School of Economics, completing his thesis in 2013 on "Representing complexity: the material construction of world politics". ^[6] He has worked as a Visiting Lecturer at City University and the University of Westminster. ^[7]

Bibliography

• (ed., with Levi Bryant and Graham Harman), 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/
• Srnicek, Nick; Alex Williams (2015). Inventing the future : postcapitalism and a world without work . London: Verso.
• Platform Capitalism (Polity, 2016)
• Hester, Helen and Nick Srnicek (2023) After Work: The Fight for Free Time. London: Verso.

Critical studies and reviews of Srnicek's work

• Heller, Nathan (August 21, 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 (November 17, 2015). "On Algorithmic Communism". Los Angeles Review Of Books. Reviews Inventing the future.

References

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Official page
4. Laureano Ralón, ' Interview with Nick Srnicek', Figure/Ground (29 December 2011), http://figureground.org/interview-with-nick-srnicek/ Archived 2016-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
5. 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%5B‍%5D.
6. Srnicek, Nick (2013). Representing complexity: the material construction of world politicse (PhD). London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
7. 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.
8. Online version is titled "Is there any point to protesting?"

External links

• Academia.edu page
• Verso authors page
• The Guardian profile page
• Nick Srnicek on Medium

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