The British philosopher (b. 1962) Bob invokes once, in passing, as an independent voice for the nihilism the tech-body interview keeps circling. Bob remembers Land as the professor who led the CCRU (the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit) at Warwick, and — hazily, from something read to him on the show — credits him with an escalating vocabulary of "nothing" that Bob hears as a description of the present. He is a corroborating reference, not a figure the dialogue develops; the point is that someone outside Bob and Cameron's frame arrived at the same void — the bottom of the cul-de-sac.
Across the dialogues
Enters as an outside witness to the void — the CCRU philosopher of nihilism, cited to corroborate the "levels of nothing" the tech-body era is read as descending into
Bob enlists Land as an external witness — the CCRU's philosopher of "nothing," whose ascending "levels of nothing" name, from outside Bob's own cosmology, the nihilism he reads into the Tech Body's era.
"he was a British professor who led the CCRU."
Connections
Bob cites Land's escalating "levels of nothing" as an outside naming of the same nihilism at the bottom of Cameron's cul-de-sac.