Benjamin Noys is a professor of critical theory at the University of Chichester
and the theorist who coined the term
accelerationism
Accelerationism is a range of ideologies that call for the drastic intensification of capitalist growth, technological change, and other processes of social change to destabilize existing systems and create radical social transformations. It is ...
within cultural ideology.
Early life
Benjamin Noys completed a BSc at
Brunel University and both MA and DPhil from
Sussex University.
Career
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.
While Noys is a critic of accelerationism, this theory is used by many far-left and far-right extremists to justify speeding up societal changes to break the current system and allow society to rebuild in a post-capitalistic world.
Noys has also been a critic of
cryptocurrency
A cryptocurrency (colloquially crypto) is a digital currency designed to work through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it.
Individual coin ownership record ...
, which has been linked to accelerationism.
Books
* ''Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction'' (
Pluto Press, 2000)
* ''Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory'' (
Edinburgh University Press
Edinburgh University Press is a scholarly publisher of academic books and journals, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
History
Edinburgh University Press was founded in the 1940s and became a wholly owned subsidiary of the University of Edinburgh ...
, 2010)
* ''Malign Velocities'' (
Zer0 Books, 2014)
* ''The Matter of Language: Abstraction and Poetry'' (
Seagull Books, 2023)
See also
*
Accelerationism
Accelerationism is a range of ideologies that call for the drastic intensification of capitalist growth, technological change, and other processes of social change to destabilize existing systems and create radical social transformations. It is ...
*
Effective accelerationism
*
Nick Land
Nick Land (born 14 March 1962) is an English philosopher best known for popularising the ideology of accelerationism. His work has been tied to the development of speculative realism, and departs from the formal conventions of academic writing ...
References
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Critical theorists
1969 births
Academics of the University of Chichester
Alumni of Brunel University London
Alumni of the University of Sussex
Living people
21st-century British philosophers
Literary theorists