Benjamin Noys
Benjamin Noys | |
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| Born | 1969 (age 56–57) |
| 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]
Early life
[edit | edit source]Benjamin Noys completed a BSc at Brunel University and both MA and DPhil from Sussex University.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]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]
Books
[edit | edit source]- Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction (Pluto Press, 2000)
- Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2010)
- Malign Velocities (Zer0 Books, 2014)
- The Matter of Language: Abstraction and Poetry (Seagull Books, 2023)
See also
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