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Bringing together phenomenology and materialism, two perspectives
seemingly at odds with each other, leading international theorist,
Manuel DeLanda, has created an entirely new theory of visual
perception. Engaging the scientific (biology, ecological
psychology, neuroscience and robotics), the philosophical (idea of
'the embodied mind') and the mathematical (dynamic systems theory)
to form a synthesis of how to see in the 21st century. A
transdisciplinary and rigorous analysis of how vision shapes what
matters.
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.
Philosophical Chemistry furthers Manuel DeLanda's revolutionary
intervention in the philosophy of science and science studies.
Against a monadic and totalizing understanding of science,
DeLanda's historicizing investigation traces the centrality of
divergence, specialization and hybridization through the fields and
subfields of chemistry. This book creates a model of a scientific
field capable of accommodating the variation and differentiation
evident in the history of scientific practice. The three chapters
deal with one subfield of chemistry in the century in which it was
developed: eighteenth-century inorganic chemistry,
nineteenth-century organic chemistry, and nineteenth-century
physical chemistry. DeLanda proposes a model that is made of three
components: a domain of phenomena, a community of practitioners,
and a set of instruments and techniques connecting the community to
the domain. Philosophical Chemistry will be essential reading for
those engaged in emergent, radical and contemporary strands of
thought in the philosophy of science and for those scholars and
students who strive to practice a productive dialogue between the
two disciplines.
Manuel DeLanda provides the first detailed overview of the
assemblage theory found in germ in Deleuze and Guattari's writings.
Through a series of case studies, DeLanda shows how the concept can
be applied to economic, linguistic, and military history as well as
to metaphysics, science, and mathematics. DeLanda then presents the
real power of assemblage theory by advancing it beyond its original
formulation - allowing for the integration of communities,
institutional organizations, cities and urban regions. And he
challenges Marxist orthodoxy with a Leftist politics of
assemblages.
Bringing together phenomenology and materialism, two perspectives
seemingly at odds with each other, leading international theorist,
Manuel DeLanda, has created an entirely new theory of visual
perception. Engaging the scientific (biology, ecological
psychology, neuroscience and robotics), the philosophical (idea of
'the embodied mind') and the mathematical (dynamic systems theory)
to form a synthesis of how to see in the 21st century. A
transdisciplinary and rigorous analysis of how vision shapes what
matters.
In A New Philosophy of Society Manuel DeLanda offers a fascinating
look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an
extraordinary social complexity. Since most social entities, from
small communities to large nation-states would disappear altogether
if our cognitive abilities ceased to exist, DeLanda proposes a
novel approach to social ontology that asserts the autonomy of
social entities from the conceptions we have of them. He argues
that Gilles Deleuze's theory of assemblages provides a framework in
which sociologists and geographers studying social networks and
regions can properly locate their work and fully elucidate the
connections between them. Indeed, assemblage theory, as DeLanda
argues, can be used to model any community, from interpersonal
networks and institutional organizations, to central governments,
cities and nation states.
This is a collection of essays, most published here for the first
time, on Gilles Deleuze's ideas about history and science. Its
focus is on ontological or metaphysical questions: What are the
legitimate social entities that can be used in historical
explanations, given a materialist metaphysics? What are the
legitimate inhabitants of the material world, natural and
artificial, and what role should science play in determining their
legitimacy? What can philosophy contribute to this enterprise? ---
Manuel DeLanda is the author of five philosophy books, War in the
Age of Intelligent Machines (1991), A Thousand Years of Nonlinear
History (1997), Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (2002), A
New Philosophy of Society (2006), and The Emergence of Synthetic
Reason (Forthcoming). He teaches two seminars at University of
Pennsylvania, Department of Architecture: "Philosophy of History:
Theories of Self-Organization and Urban Dynamics," and "Philosophy
of Science: Thinking about Structures and Materials." He also holds
the Gilles Deleuze chair at the European Graduate School in
Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
In this groundbreaking book, Manuel DeLanda analyzes different
genres of simulation, from cellular automata and generic algorithms
to neural nets and multi-agent systems, as a means to conceptualize
the space of possibilities associated with casual and other
capacities. This remarkably clear philosophical discussion of a
rapidly growing field, from a thinker at the forefront of research
at the interface of science and the humanities, is a must-read for
anyone interested in the philosophies of technology, emergence and
science at all levels.
Manuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist and philosopher.
In his new book, he offers a fascinating look at how the
contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social
complexity. Since most social entities, from small communities to
large nation-states, would disappear altogether if human minds
ceased to exist, Delanda proposes a novel approach to social
ontology that asserts the autonomy of social entities from the
conceptions we have of them.
Manuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist and philosopher.
In his new book, he offers a fascinating look at how the
contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social
complexity. Since most social entitles, from small communities to
large nation-states, would disappear altogether if human minds
ceased to exist, Delanda proposes a novel approach to social
ontology that asserts the autonomy of social entities from the
conceptions we have of them. This highly original and important
book takes the reader on a journey that starts with personal
relations and climbs up one scale at a time all the way to
territorial states and beyond. Only by experiencing this upward
movement can we get a sense of the irreducible social complexity
that characterizes the contemporary world.
Philosophical Chemistry furthers Manuel DeLanda's revolutionary
intervention in the philosophy of science and science studies.
Against a monadic and totalizing understanding of science,
DeLanda's historicizing investigation traces the centrality of
divergence, specialization and hybridization through the fields and
subfields of chemistry. The strategy followed uses a series of
chemical textbooks, separated from each other by fifty year periods
(1750, 1800, 1850, and 1900), to follow the historical formation of
consensus practices. The three chapters deal with one subfield of
chemistry in the century in which it was developed:
eighteenth-century inorganic chemistry, nineteenth-century organic
chemistry, and nineteenth-century physical chemistry. This book
creates a model of a scientific field capable of accommodating the
variation and differentiation evident in the history of scientific
practice. DeLanda proposes a model that is made of three
components: a domain of phenomena, a community of practitioners,
and a set of instruments and techniques connecting the community to
the domain. Philosophical Chemistry will be essential reading for
those engaged in emergent, radical and contemporary strands of
thought in the philosophy of science and for those scholars and
students who strive to practice a productive dialogue between the
two disciplines.
First published 10 years ago, Manuel DeLanda's Intensive Science
and Virtual Philosophy rapidly established itself as a landmark
text in contemporary continental thought. DeLanda here draws on the
realist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to the domain of philosophy of
science. As well as contemporary philosophical insights, the book
also tackles new developments in geometry, complexity theory and
chaos theory to bring new insights to our understanding of a
scientific knowledge liberated from traditional ideas of essence.
Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, this edition
includes a new preface by Delanda, revisiting the themes of his
book ten years on.
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