The Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) was an experimental cultural theorist collective based out of Warwick University, England, from 1995 to 1997, and later as a student run collective after 2003. It garnered reputation for its idiosyncratic and surreal "theory-fiction" which incorporated cyberpunk and Gothic horror, and its work has since had an online cult following related to the rise in popularity of accelerationism. Warwick University maintains that the CCRU was never a sanctioned academic project, with some faculty going so far as to assert that the CCRU "has never existed". The published works of the CCRU are strongly associated with, and influenced by, feminist and cultural theorist Sadie Plant, and philosopher Nick Land.
