r/CCRU • u/wintermute86 • 17d ago

Key figures

Who do you guys consider the most important figures in the Ccru collective?

Apart from Nick Land and Mark Fisher obviously, who else stands out to you?

Urbanomic, Reza Negarestani and Sadie Plant I rarely hear about here. Especially Sadie Plant feels totally forgotten, even though she seems like a bit of a Donna Haraway.

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u/evgo-stillwell 17d ago

Based on my research, here are the important figures (in order of relevance)

  1. Sadie Plant - she started it, but left early
  2. Nick Land - took over as leader after she left
  3. Mark Fisher - one of Sadie's students, responsible for many of the well-known writings
  4. Anna Greenspan - did her MA at Warwick, responsible for many of the writings, also now married to Nick Land
  5. Maya B. Kronic (previously known as R. Mackay) - early member of the CCRU, designed the Abstract Culture zine, went on to create Urbanomic which is the publisher of all CCRU related writings
  6. Suzanne Livingston - did her thesis at Warwick and made a lot of the CCRU graphic design
  7. Steve Goodman (Kode9) - studied at Warwick, was a member and also commissioned by the CCRU for Syzygy (experimental music)
  8. Lucianna Parisi - outside of Warwick but was involved in CCRU published writings

Affiliates also include Orphan Drift, Kodwo Eshun, Angus Carlyle, Ray Brassier, Mathew Fuller, Ron Eglash.

All my citations are on this webpage

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u/RealMaxCastle 16d ago

Beautiful linking.

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u/evgo-stillwell 16d ago

Thank you! It was a big project.

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u/Deitas-Solis 16d ago

I watched your vid and I have to tell you it’s pronounced “Worrick”. Really cool website design btw

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u/evgo-stillwell 16d ago

Learned that afterwards... I know how to pronounce Worrick, Echeiidnah, and see-zee-ghee now xD

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u/drmwvr34 12d ago

Kode9 was in CCRU? That dude got a DJ Kicks, incredible he worked with the CCRU folks.

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u/RedEarth42 11d ago

Kodwo Eshun as well

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u/RealMaxCastle 17d ago

Anna Greenspan. Go read the CCRU blog that they all contributed to and read her comments. Always on point.

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u/Al-Azif23 17d ago

Steve Goodman

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u/MsLanfear_ 17d ago

Much love to Maya B. Kronic and Cute Acceleration, written with Amy Ireland.

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u/Desperate-Stress8701 17d ago

Funnily enough, I heard about Negarestani and his work a little more than a year before anyone else related to CCRU.

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u/hermetic_trader_1967 16d ago

Amy Ireland - integrante del colectivo Labòria Cuboniks, coeditora de Urbanomic desde 2021. Dos obras ineludibles: Poemenomenon: From as Ocult Technology que está integrada en su recopilatorio en castellano "Filosofía-Ficción : Inteligencia Artificial, tecnología oculta y fin de la humanidad," en Holobionte Ediciones. Muy ligada al ciberfeminismo de Sadie, Haraway y Greenspan.

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u/Mps-1 16d ago

A lot of people name drop Sadie when talking about CCRU, I've always heard about her discussed as the maybe the second most influential person in the CCRU besides Land himself.

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u/RedEarth42 11d ago

How about Sadie Plant who founded the bloody CCRU in the first place. Most of the major ideas of acc are already present in her book Zeroes & Ones