Nick Srnicek
Srnicek in 2018
Education
Thesis	Representing complexity: the material construction of world politics (2013)
Philosophical work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Speculative realism[1] Accelerationism
Main interests	Political philosophy

Nick Srnicek (born 1982)^[2] is a Canadian writer and academic. He is currently a lecturer inDigital Economy in theDepartment of Digital Humanities, King's College London.^[3] Srnicek is associated with thepolitical theory ofaccelerationism and apost-scarcity economy.

Srnicek took a double major in Psychology and philosophy^[4] before completing an MA at theUniversity of Western Ontario in 2007.^[5] He proceeded to a PhD at theLondon School of Economics, completing his thesis in 2013 on "Representing complexity: the material construction of world politics".^[6] He has worked as a Visiting Lecturer atCity University and theUniversity of Westminster.^[7]

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• (ed., withLevi Bryant andGraham Harman),The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism (Re.press, 2011), introduction athttps://www.academia.edu/178033
• withAlex Williams, '#ACCELERATE: Manifesto for an accelerationist politics', inDark Trajectories: Politics of the Outside, ed. by Joshua Johnson (New York: Name Publications, 2013), pp. 135–55,https://www.academia.edu/2379428
• withAlex Williams, 'On Cunning Automata: Financial Acceleration at the Limits of the Dromological', inCollapse 8, ed. by Robin MacKay (Windsor Quary, UK: Urbanomic, 2013), pp. 9–52,https://www.urbanomic.com/book/collapse-8/
• Srnicek, Nick; Alex Williams (2015).Inventing the future : postcapitalism and a world without work. London: Verso.
• Platform Capitalism (Polity, 2016)
• Hester, Helen and Nick Srnicek (2023)After Work: The Fight for Free Time. London: Verso.

Critical studies and reviews of Srnicek's work

• Heller, Nathan (21 August 2017)."Out of action : do protests work?". The Critics. A Critic at Large.The New Yorker. Vol. 93, no. 24. pp. 70–77.^[8] ReviewsInventing the future.
• Lowrie, Ian (17 November 2015)."On Algorithmic Communism".Los Angeles Review Of Books. ReviewsInventing the future.

• Academia.edu page
• Verso authors page
• The Guardian profile page
• Nick Srnicek onMedium

• 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

• 1982 births
• 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
• Academics of City, University of London
• Academics of King's College London
• Academics of the University of Westminster
• Accelerationism
• Alumni of the London School of Economics
• Canadian academics
• Canadian expatriates in England
• Critical theorists
• Critics of work and the work ethic
• Living people
• Universal basic income writers
• University of Western Ontario alumni

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