Benjamin Noys
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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 | |
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| Born | 1969 (age 56–57) |
| Occupation | Professor of Critical Theory |
| Known for | Coining the term accelerationism |
Early life
Benjamin Noys completed a BSc at Brunel University and both MA and DPhil from Sussex University.[1]
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.[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
- 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)