Nick Srnicek
Writer and digital economy academic
Nick Srnicek is a writer and academic who lectures in digital economy at King's College London. He co-wrote Inventing the Future with Alex Williams.
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British Born 1982 in Canada, Canada
About Nick Srnicek
Nick Srnicek was born in 1982 and studied Psychology and Philosophy before earning a master's degree at the University of Western Ontario in 2007. He completed a PhD at the London School of Economics in 2013, with a thesis on the material construction of world politics. He has also held visiting teaching posts at City University and the University of Westminster. Srnicek has written Platform Capitalism (2016) and, with Helen Hester, After Work. Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, written with Alex Williams, appeared in 2015. He is linked with accelerationism, a political theory, and with the idea of a post-scarcity economy.