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The University of Warwick was founded in 1965, receiving its Royal Charter of Incorporation that year. The government gave approval for its establishment in 1961, and the first 450 undergraduates arrived on campus in October 1965.
The University of Warwick is located on the outskirts of Coventry, 3.5 miles from Coventry city centre, while the town of Warwick lies 8 miles to the southwest of the campus. The name was chosen despite the geographic distance from the county town, following debate between local sponsors over whether to name the institution after Coventry or Warwickshire.
The Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, known as the CCRU, was an experimental cultural theorist collective formed in late 1995 at Warwick's philosophy department. Led by figures including Sadie Plant, Mark Fisher, and Nick Land, the group blended philosophy, cyberpunk, and occultism before dissolving in the early 2000s. In 2017, The Guardian credited the CCRU with influence on computer science, philosophy, occultism, and the creation of accelerationism.
The White Koan is a 6-metre-tall sculpture by artist Liliane Lijn, installed outside the Warwick Arts Centre. It was made in 1971 for the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation City Sculpture Project, originally sited in Plymouth, then displayed at the Hayward Gallery in London before Warwick purchased it in 1972. The sculpture rotates on an electric motor and is intended to represent the Buddhist concept of a question without an answer.
Notable Warwick alumni include Stephen Merchant, co-writer and co-director of The Office and Extras; Gudni Th. Johannesson, President of Iceland; Luis Arce, President of Bolivia; Andrew Haldane, former Chief Economist at the Bank of England; and Tony Wheeler, creator of the Lonely Planet travel guides. Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner John Cornforth was a professor at the university, and Sting enrolled but left after a term.
Warwick University Ltd was a 1970 edited book written and largely compiled by British historian E. P. Thompson, who was then a lecturer at Warwick. It examined the university's business-oriented approach to higher education, focusing on a proposed social building, a student occupation of the Registry in 1967, and surveillance files on students and staff that the occupation revealed.