Nick Srnicek (born 1982)Katarzyna Piasecka, 'Accelerationism: Tomorrow, we're not going to work!', CafeBabel (22 February 2016), http://www.cafebabel.co.uk/society/article/accelerationism-tomorrow-were-not-going-to-work.html . is a Canadian writer and academic. He is currently a lecturer in Digital Economy in the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London.Official page Srnicek is associated with the political theory of accelerationism and a post-scarcity economy.
Biography
Srnicek took a double major in psychology and philosophy,Laureano Ralón, ' Interview with Nick Srnicek', Figure/Ground (29 December 2011), http://figureground.org/interview-with-nick-srnicek/ before completing an MA at the University of Western Ontario in 2007.Nick Srnicek, 'Assemblage Theory, Complexity and Contentious Politics: The Political Ontology of Gilles Deleuze' (Unpublished MA thesis, University of Western Ontario, 2007), https://www.academia.edu/178031. He proceeded to a PhD in international relations at the London School of Economics, completing his thesis in 2013 on "Representing complexity: the material construction of world politics" under the supervision of Kimberly Hutchings. He has worked as a visiting lecturer at City University and the University of Westminster.Katarzyna Piasecka, 'Accelerationism: Tomorrow, we're not going to work!', CafeBabel (22 February 2016), http://www.cafebabel.co.uk/society/article/accelerationism-tomorrow-were-not-going-to-work.html .
Bibliography
Critical studies and reviews of Srnicek's work Online version is titled "Is there any point to protesting?" Reviews Inventing the future. Lowrie, Ian (17 November 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
Interviews
L. Ralón (2011). "Interview with Nick Srnicek," Figure/Ground. 29 December. 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. 15 July. 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. 16 October. 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. 27 February. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08fgvln