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A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (Paperback, Revised)
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More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of
Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist
philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles
Deleuze, and Felix Guattari, while also engaging the critical new
understanding of material processes derived from the sciences of
dynamics. Following in the wake of his groundbreaking War in the
Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a radical
synthesis of historical development over the last one thousand
years. More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of
Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist
philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles
Deleuze, and Felix Guattari, while also engaging the critical new
understanding of material processes derived from the sciences of
dynamics. Working against prevailing attitudes that see history as
an arena of texts, discourses, ideologies, and metaphors, De Landa
traces the concrete movements and interplays of matter and energy
through human populations in the last millennium. De Landa attacks
three domains that have given shape to human societies: economics,
biology, and linguistics. In every case, what one sees is the
self-directed processes of matter and energy interacting with the
whim and will of human history itself to form a panoramic vision of
the West free of rigid teleology and naive notions of progress, and
even more important, free of any deterministic source of its urban,
institutional, and technological forms. Rather, the source of all
concrete forms in the West's history are shown to derive from
internal morphogenetic capabilities that lie within the flow of
matter-energy itself.
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