Nick Srnicek

Nick Srnicek (born 1982) is a writer, noted for his left-wing politics.

Born in 1982, Srnicek took a double major in Psychology and Philosophy before completing an MA at the University of Western Ontario in 2007. 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". He works as a Visiting Lecturer at City University and the University of Westminster.

Srnicek is associated with the philosophy of accelerationism.

• Platform Capitalism (forthcoming, Polity, 2016): https://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9781509504862
• with Alex Williams, Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (Verso, 2015)
• 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
• (ed., with Levi Bryant and Graham Harman), The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism (Re.press, 2011), introduction at https://www.academia.edu/178033