The New Yorker's "Silicon Valley’s Favorite Doomsaying Philosopher" (published February 18, 2026, in The Lede section) profiles Nick Land, the British philosopher whose radical, anti-humanist ideas—once confined to 1990s academic fringes—are now resonating deeply in Silicon Valley's AI boom. The piece, written in a measured, somewhat bemused tone, traces Land's evolution from cult academic figure to influential "prophet" for techno-optimists and the New Right, while highlighting the eerie alignment between his decades-old predictions and today's reality of explosive AI progress.
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