In the 1990s Nick Land worked in the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) at the University of Warwick. Drawing upon a heady mix of Deleuze & Guattari, Lyotard, Manual De Landa, Cyberpunk, drum and bass, drugs and much else besides, his work is often cited as a major source of accelerationist thinking. In 1998 Land quit the academy and relocated to China. In 2017 The Atlantic Magazine, amongst other sources, claimed that his contemporary writings - a long piece called ‘The Dark Enlightenment’ in particular - have had a major impact on neoreaction (NRx) - a political philosophy that  rejects democracy, embraces autocratic rule and is anti-egalitarian. Much has recently been written about this transmogrification. This paper attempts to piece this material together in order to produce a possible account of how this happened.

Professor Roger Burrows is a prominent and highly regarded British sociologist with varied interests in: the impact of unsustainable home ownership on children, families and health; residential mobility in the social rented sector; the geodemographics industry and the social implications of geo-locative technologies more generally; the use of digital technologies by people with chronic illnesses; virtual self-support systems; and, most recently, the impact of the 'super rich' on neighbourhoods in London. He is on the editorial boards of Body & Society, The Sociological Review, Theory, Culture and Society and Big Data and Society.