Nick Land (born 14 March 1962) is an English philosopher best known for popularising the ideology of accelerationism. His work has been tied to the development of speculative realism, and departs from the formal conventions of academic writing, incorporating unorthodox and esoteric influences. Much of his writing was anthologized in the 2011 collection Fanged Noumena.

In the 1990s, Land was closely affiliated with the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU), a "theory-fiction" collective co-founded by Land and cyberfeminist philosopher Sadie Plant at the University of Warwick. During this era, Land drew inspiration from post-structuralist theory and leftist thinkers like Bataille, Marx, and Deleuze & Guattari as well as science fiction, rave culture, and the occult. He also coined the term hyperstition to refer to memetic ideas that bring about their own reality.

Land resigned from Warwick in 1998. After a period of amphetamine abuse, he suffered a breakdown in the early 2000s and disappeared from public view. Later, he moved to Shanghai and re-emerged as a figure on the political right, becoming a foundational thinker in the reactionary movement known as the Dark Enlightenment. His related writings have explored anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic ideas.

Land obtained a PhD in 1987 in the University of Essex under David Farrell Krell, with a thesis on Heidegger's 1953 essay Die Sprache im Gedicht (Language in the Poem), which is about Georg Trakl's work. He began as a lecturer in continental philosophy at the University of Warwick from 1987 until his resignation in 1998. In 1992, he published The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism. Land published an abundance of shorter texts, many in the 1990s during his time with the CCRU. Most of these articles are compiled in the retrospective collection Fanged Noumena, published in 2011.

At Warwick, Land 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". 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 Land "lying on the ground, croaking into a mic", recalls Robin Mackay, while Mackay played jungle records in the background. He was also the thesis advisor of some PhD students. After he resigned, the CCRU continued meeting under his leadership. In the early 2000s, Land suffered a breakdown after a period of "fanatical" amphetamine abuse, disappearing from public.

Land taught at the New Centre for Research & Practice until March 2017, when the Centre ended its relationship with him "following several tweets by Land this year in which he espoused intolerant opinions about Muslims and immigrants".^{[better source needed]}

As of 2017^[update], Land resided in Shanghai. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he experienced Shanghai's strict lockdown measures firsthand. After Xenosystems, his primary blog, was removed from the internet in 2022, he took an extended hiatus from social media before returning later that year. In October 2023, he launched a new social media account, Xenocosmography, marking a shift toward religious and numerological themes.

Land's work has been influential to the political philosophy of accelerationism. Land views capitalism as the driver of modernity and deterritorialization, advocating its use to dissolve existing social systems and reach a technological singularity. Along with the other members of CCRU, Land wove together ideas from the occult, cybernetics, science fiction, and poststructuralist philosophy to try to describe the phenomena of technocapitalist acceleration.