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== Biography ==
Land obtained a PhD in 1987 in the [[University of Essex]] under [[David Farrell Krell]], with a thesis on Heidegger's 1953 essay {{Lang|de|Die Sprache im Gedicht}}, which is about [[Georg Trakl]]'s work.<ref>Acknowledgement section of ''[http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.379384 Heidegger's 'Die Sprache im Gedicht' and the Cultivation of the Grapheme] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031023447/https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.379384 |date=31 October 2020 }}'' (PhD Thesis, University of Essex, 1987)</ref>
He began as a lecturer in [[Continental philosophy]] at the [[University of Warwick]] from 1987 until his resignation in 1998.<ref name="mackay2013" /> At Warwick, he and [[Sadie Plant]] co-founded the [[Cybernetic Culture Research Unit]] (CCRU), an interdisciplinary research group described by philosopher [[Graham Harman]] as "a diverse group of thinkers who experimented in conceptual production by welding together a wide variety of sources: futurism, technoscience, philosophy, mysticism, numerology, complexity theory, and science fiction, among others".<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=coBDqJQeAQYC&q=%22a+diverse+group+of+thinkers+who+experimented+in+conceptual+production+by+welding+together+a+wide+variety+of+sources%3A+futurism%2C+technoscience%2C+philosophy%2C+mysticism%2C+numerology%2C+complexity+theory%2C+and+science+fiction%2C+among+others.%22&pg=PA6 |title=The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism |last=Harman |first=Graham |date=2011 |publisher=re.press |isbn=978-0980668346 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> During his time at Warwick, Land participated in Virtual Futures, a series of cyber-culture conferences. Virtual Futures 96 was advertised as "an anti-disciplinary event" and "a conference in the post-humanities". One session involved Nick Land "lying on the ground, croaking into a mic", recalls Robin Mackay, while Mackay played [[Jungle music|jungle]] records in the background."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/accelerationism-how-a-fringe-philosophy-predicted-the-future-we-live-in |title=Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in |last=Beckett |first=Andy |date=2017-05-11 |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=2019-07-24 |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=11 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220411030541/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/accelerationism-how-a-fringe-philosophy-predicted-the-future-we-live-in |url-status=live }}</ref> He was also the thesis advisor of some PhD students.<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Axiomatics : the apparatus of capitalism |url=http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b1402738~S15 |publisher=University of Warwick |date=May 1996 |type=Ph.D. dissertation |first=Deepak Narang |last=Sawhney}}</ref>
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