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People
Use these pages as glossary-like introductions to recurring names, publication histories, and why each figure matters to the corpus.
Plain-language profile pages for major figures in the CCRU orbit.
These entries are staged as a shelf rather than a neutral card dump: enough spacing to browse quickly, enough hierarchy to keep each family distinct.
Philosopher and writer whose work is central to the archive and to many later debates about accelerationism, technology, and reaction.
Critic and theorist whose later writing helps contextualize the archive's cultural afterlife and translates difficult motifs into clearer public arguments.
Writer and theorist whose work on cybernetics, media, and culture helps widen the archive beyond a single-author story.
Editor, writer, and organizer whose introductions and editorial work are some of the best pathways into the archive for serious readers.
Writer and theorist whose work helps connect the archive to contemporary debates about fiction, AI, aesthetics, and the afterlives of theory.
Philosopher and commentator whose lectures and interviews help clarify how later readers interpreted Land, rationalism, and the archive's conceptual stakes.
Philosopher whose work appears across the corpus and helps connect the archive to wider debates on rationalism, inhumanism, and theory after the CCRU.
Philosopher of distributed life and computational architecture whose Abstract Sex (Continuum 2004) and Contagious Architecture (MIT 2013) supply the CCRU's sharpest route into biotechnological contagion and machinic process.
Philosopher of capital, time, and modernity. Her Warwick PhD Capitalism's Transcendental Time Machine (2000) and Shanghai Future (Hurst 2014) underwrite several CCRU motifs in their own right.
Philosopher and producer whose Sonic Warfare (MIT 2010) and the Hyperdub label (2004–) make sonic theory a working theoretical instrument inside the CCRU's wider project.
Warwick philosopher whose translation of Lyotard's Libidinal Economy (1993) and Philosophies of Nature After Schelling (Continuum 2006) supply the CCRU scene with Schellingian naturphilosophie as a working philosophical resource.
Artist whose HEXEN 2.0 (Black Dog 2012) and HEXEN 5.0 (2018) treat diagrammatic genealogy and conspiracy cartography as serious conceptual instruments.
Curatorial-artistic voice inside Orphan Drift, the collective whose 1999 novel and continuing practice carry the CCRU's interest in ritual, image, and collective experiment.
Writing partnership whose 2013 Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics and Inventing the Future (Verso 2015) articulate the principal left-accelerationist programme.
Pseudonym used by Guillaume Verdon, the public figure most associated with effective accelerationism (e/acc), the 2022 internet political movement.
Founder of LessWrong and author of Inadequate Equilibria (2017). Included on this archive as the AI-risk discourse counterpart that contemporary AI accelerationism explicitly opposes.