Benjamin Noys


Benjamin Noys is a professor of critical theory at the University of Chichester and the theorist who coined the term accelerationism within cultural ideology.

Early life

Benjamin Noys completed a BSc at Brunel University and both MA and DPhil from Sussex University.

Career

Noys is an academic critical theorist who is best known for borrowing the term accelerationism from the science fiction author Roger Zelazny and developing it within cultural and intellectual contexts. While Noys is a critic of accelerationism, this theory is used by many far-left and far-right extremists to justify speeding up societal changes to break the current system and allow society to rebuild in a post-capitalistic world.
Noys has also been a critic of cryptocurrency, which has been linked to accelerationism.

Books