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	Manuel De Landa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Manuel DeLanda, (born 1952 in Mexico City), is a writer, artist and distinguished philosopher who has lived in New York since 1975.
		He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University (New York), a Professor for Contemporary Philosophy and Science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and professor at the Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.
		De Landa became a principal figure in the "new materialism" based on his application of Deleuze's realist ontology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manuel_De_Landa (254 words)

	Interactivist Info Exchange \| Manuel De Landa, "1000 Years of War" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		De Landa: The key to the ontology I defend is the idea that the world is made out of individual entities at different levels of scale, and that each entity is the contingent result of an individuation process.
		De Landa: That remark is a disclaimer to draw attention to the fact that one does not have the legitimate right to postulate an "attractor" until one has some mathematical evidence one may be lurking there.
		De Landa: The preeminence of the cities you mention was always contingent on the speed of transport: for as long as sea transport was faster than by land, not only goods but people and ideas flowed faster and accumulated more frequently in maritime metropolises.
	slash.autonomedia.org /article.pl?sid=03/07/15/1728236 (8889 words)

	Canisius College - NMT -- Series One Courses - Manuel De Landa
		De Landa addresses science in its broadest contexts and has written and lectured extensively on self-organizing matter; artificial life and intelligence; economics; architecture; chaos theory; history of science; nonlinear science; cellular automata, and much more.
		De Landa especially draws upon — and seeks to illuminate the meaning and utility of — the work of the dynamic French philosopher Gilles Deleuze.
		De Landa is also a brilliant speaker with a gift for illustrating and explaining deep philosophical concepts in an exceptionally clear way.
	www.canisius.edu /topos/delanda.asp (601 words)

	IJBS
		In all of this, De Landa seeks to reaffirm new approaches to research and theory in the natural sciences, to challenge the old analytical philosophies and theoretico-deductive models of scientific development, and to demonstrate that recent directions in science are more consistent with the historical approach to ontological problematization taken by Deleuze.
		De Landa deserves immense credit for his efforts to grapple with these difficult concepts and to demonstrate their resonance with alternative directions in contemporary mathematics and science, both in this book and in is prior works.
		De Landa argues that for the physical scientist as well as the philosopher this means attention to singularities and multiplicities, not essences or laws.
	www.ubishops.ca /baudrillardstudies/vol2_1/bogard.htm (1843 words)

	Modestwitness/Subject-object
		In this essay De Landa wonders whether birds building nests and humans furnishing houses is the result of cognitive labour, be that conscious or not (e.g.
		De Landa defends the hypothesis that we are concerned here with an interaction between a set of non-hierarchical brain functions and the expressive qualities of territorial markers themselves.
		In accordance to behavioral AI, De Landa does not believe that, in the case of a bird, the birds brain would typically contain representations of the world, forming a cognitive map of the animal's surroundings.
	www.constantvzw.com /modestwitness1/soen.html (4407 words)

	Manuel DeLanda (1952 - )
		Manuel de Landa is a New York based philosopher and science writer with an exceptionally cross-disciplinary body of work: He has written extensively on nonlinear dynamics, theories of self-organization, artificial life and intelligence, chaos theory as well as architecture, and history of science.
		Currently, de Landa is a professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University, New York.
		Manuel De Landa observes in 1000 Years of Nonlinear History that market systems act like an abstract machine whereas the natural process is for relatively flat meshworks of producer-consumers to transform into hierarchies over time; hierarchies of meshworks as well as meshworks of hierarchies.
	www.jahsonic.com /ManuelDeLanda.html (998 words)

	<nettime> Manuel Delanda - 1000 Years of War
		Manuel De Landa, distinguished philosopher and principal figure in the "new materialism" that has been emerging as a result of interest in Deleuze and Guattari, currently teaches at Columbia University.
		Manuel De Landa: Though I understand what you are getting at I do not think it is very useful to use this label (biological terrorism) for this phenomenon.
		De Landa: Well, frankly, I think Marxism is Deleuze and Guattari's little Oedipus, the small piece of territory they must keep to come back at night after a wild day of deterritorializing.
	www.mail-archive.com /nettime-l@bbs.thing.net/msg00810.html (9270 words)

	DJ SPOOKY that subliminal kid
		Beginning, middle, and end - all were signposts within a latticework of actions and deeds, all took place within the oral tradition of a culture where things were hybrid, and created to keep a register of the dramas of the past.
		Manuel de Landa writes from a strange pataphysical world of disjunctions and fluid transitions - a milieu where writing about ideas becomes a fluid dialectic switching from steady state to flux and back again in the blink of an eye, or the turn of a sentence.
		With Manuel Delanda, there's always that sense that one thing leads to another and basically there is no discrete and stable form of inquiry: the question changes and configures the answer which again, reconfigures what was originally asked.
	www.djspooky.com /articles/essayonmanuel.html (1713 words)

	reVIEW : Young
		De Landa knows his readership well enough not to completely trust it, hence the numerous caveats, reminders, and reservations that are less designed to convince sceptics than to obstruct zealots.
		De Landa's geological, biological, and linguistic layers appear to resemble Braudel's tripartite division into the environmental histoire immobile at the bottom of history, the sluggish cycles of material culture in the middle, and frothy human events at the top.
		Surely, De Landa must know that the various explanatory models he mobilizes to explain meshworks and hierarchies in the worlds of geology, biology, and human history did not arise independently but are closely related and in some cases directly descended from each other.
	www.altx.com /EBR/reviews/rev8/r8young.htm (2251 words)

	The 2nd switch interview with Manuel De Landa
		De Landa: Well, I define "probe-head" behavior strictly as the result of the coupling between a population of replicators (of any kind, not just DNA) and a sorting device (of any kind), so that evolution can stop being thought in terms of "survival of the fittest" and becomes simply an "automatic search process".
		De Landa: Well, first of all, "relativism" of any kind is alien to Deleuze's (and my) philosophy, since Deleuze believes in the autonomous existence of reality (autonomous from the human mind, that is).
		De Landa: The call to be "more experimental" stems not from a utopian desire, and it certainly has absolutely nothing to do with "changing language in the hopes of changing perception".
	switch.sjsu.edu /web/v5n1/deLanda (2540 words)

	CTheory.net
		De Landa reduces the social constructionist argument to a footnote in a somewhat flippant discussion of the Eskimos' ability to 'perceive' different forms of snow (varied states) and asserts that 'categories' (stable states) are already in nature and independent of language.
		De Landa, later in this same section, appears to be responding to a particular form of social constructionist thought and he suggests that a society might not have the "power" to impose certain cultural values on its citizens and eliminate all personal choices.
		De Landa's remark that social constructionists usually look for the "exotic," the "remarkable," or what is different is, in at least one sense, correct (Foucault, for example, traces the genealogy of the homosexual and other 'pathologized' identities, which, in Deleuze's language, were "miraculated" on a Body without Organs (BwO), sometime in the last century).
	www.ctheory.net /text_file.asp?pick=265 (4560 words)

	METAMUTE : M11: Current (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		De Landa himself seems to want to understand Marxism as a set of incontrovertible truths rather than as a method, and thus he forms his criticisms, dismissing Marx on two counts: "the labour theory of value [...] and the built-in teleology in the traditional Marxist periodisation of history" (281).
		De Landa's second reason for rejecting Marxism, that it is beholden to a predetermined teleological progression of stages, is simply fatuous.
		The problem with De Landa's position in A Thousand Years is that, by reading Marxism as he does, he forces himself to reject an axiomatic part of the work of Deleuze and Guattari while simultaneously claiming to be fully consistent with their project.
	www.metamute.com /php/go.php?url=I-11_S-10_A-1143_E (990 words)

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		De Landa: What Mark does is push things far from equilibrium, to that point of unpredictability.
		De Landa: One of the things I admire about Mark's work is that he uses the human body as a laboratory.
		De Landa: Well, we have all these self-organizing effects, clocks that regulate the sleep cycle and so on, trapped in our bodies - trapped in the sense that DNA controls when they manifest themselves.
	www.eff.org /Net_culture/Cyborg_anthropology/cybernetics.trialog (1091 words)

	SWITCH Interview with Manuel De Landa
		The work of philosopher Manuel De Landa is of critical interest to artists working with networks as medium.
		, De Landa examines the relationship of societies to the flow of matter, energy, information and the related bifurcations into higher order paradigms.
		De Landa: Well, the main reason I stopped being active in the art world was that I realized that, even when I was an artist (a filmmaker) I was more interested in theoretical questions about the medium than in the films themselves.
	switch.sjsu.edu /web/v3n3/DeLanda/delanda.html (1617 words)

	A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		De Landa chronicles the development in this area as applied to Biology, a couple of branches in Physics and the Social Sciences, and links all his subjects in such an extraordinary way that the book is itself a meshwork, in the purest sense of Deleuze and Guattari.
		De Landa's take on history is that it is a product of complexity and self-organization much more than we are prone to believe; in this book, he expands on and explodes from those of his (also) brilliant "War in the Age of Intelligent Machines".
		I recently took a class with Manuel DeLanda in which he explored the themes of this and his other book "War In the Age of Intelligent Machines." His concept of non-linear history is beautiful, a fusion of academic disciplines that have forever been blockaded from such a delicate and well thought out junction.
	www.negative-procreative.biz /stuff-0942299329.html (1354 words)

	Wired 1.04: Out of Control
		De Landa's argument turns on the notion that singularities - the "transition points...where order spontaneously emerges out of chaos" - catalyze curiously lifelike behavior in nonorganic matter.
		Dery: The notion of the "machinic phylum," which you define as "the overall set of self-organizing processes in the universe," is central to War in the Age of Intelligent Machines.
		De Landa: The idea, basically, is that humans didn't really invent machines.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/1.04/out.of.control.html (726 words)

	CTheory.net
		Manuel De Landa in conversation with: Don Ihde, Casper Bruun Jensen, Jari Friis Jorgensen, Srikanth Mallavarapu, Eduardo Mendieta, John Mix, John Protevi, and Evan Selinger.
		And distance per se was not always the main reason: early rifles were not particularly liked due to their increased precision, and the practices this led to (the emergence of snipers) were seen as dishonorable.
		To some extent, this approach resembles Latour's style of investigation, according to which the analyst is required to give an account of the different actants being studied, and their relations, in order to give an account of the network they constitute.
	www.ctheory.net /text_file.asp?pick=383 (6058 words)

	1.01: Street Cred
		De Landa introduces us to a future robot historian, a second narrator of sorts that is charting its own genealogy.
		De Landa believes that the introduction of personal computers has worked at cross-purposes to the military's strategy of centralizing battlefield management.
		In constructing his critique of centralized power and in mapping the migration of control from humans to machines, De Landa deftly applies some post-modern philosophy and the latest developments in the science of chaos and self-organizing systems.
	www.wirednews.com /wired/archive/1.01/streetcred.html (465 words)

	WIRED 1.4: "Out of Control" by Mark Pauline, Manuel De Landa, and Mark Dery
		Chaos is Manuel De Landa's bailiwick as well.
		The role model for the future of human interaction with machines, if we want to avoid our own destruction and regain control, is to start thinking of our interaction with technology in terms of the intuitive, the irrational.
		Mark Dery is currently at work on Cyberculture: Road Warriors, Console Cowboys and the Silicon Underground, a survey of cybernetic subcultures to be published by Hyperion in 1994.
	www.srl.org /interviews/out.of.control.html (1107 words)

	Manuel DeLanda - Philosopher of Contemporary Science and Architecture - Biography
		Manuel DeLanda is a New York based philosopher and science writer with an exceptionally cross-disciplinary body of work: He has written extensively on nonlinear dynamics, theories of self-organization, artificial life and intelligence, chaos theory as well as architecture, and history of science.
		Currently, DeLanda is a professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University, New York.
		Manuel DeLanda is a professor of contemporary philosophy and science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he conducts an Intensive Summer Seminar.
	www.egs.edu /faculty/delanda.html (166 words)

	Manuel DeLanda Annotated Bibliography
		He goes on to compare and contrast the relative merits of Saussure's (semiotic) and Wittgenstein's (use) accounts of meaning for film theory, arguing that the latter is especially well suited to account for a spectator's labour in producing and inhabiting these possible worlds.
		This tiny essay considers a range of military surveillance techniques (spy planes, satellites, x-rays, radiowaves, infrared, multispectral scanning, night vision), and suggests that, with their increasing use on civilians during peace time, we are moving from the old Panopticon to a wider Panspectron.
		Manuel DeLanda, ‘Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture’
	www.cddc.vt.edu /host/delanda (3549 words)

	Who is who @ Mediamatic - Manuel De Landa
		Artist and author Manual De Landa was invited to participate as a speaker at the Doors of Perception 2 @Home conference (where he presented his Homes: Meshwork or Hierarchy?
		Manuel De Landa was born in 1952 in Mexico City and has lived in Manhattan since 1975.
		He is author of the book War in the Age of Intelligent Machines andPhylum: a Thousand years on Nonlinear History.
	www.mediamatic.nl /whoiswho/delanda (174 words)

	UFO Breakfast Recipients (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The entire interview, and some of de Landa's related essays, are very good reading.
		They're an interesting rejoinder to a familiar Marxian anti-capitalism which, in de Landa's view, locates the problem with capitalism at too fundamental a level ("commodification") rather than in the "antimarket" developments which increasingly spell the end of the autonomy that the market can and should offer the small independent producer.
		De Landa's response is not to expose this as an ideological construction, but to say: yes, that's exactly right.
	www.ufobreakfast.com /archive/00000128.htm (948 words)

	Canisius College - Display Story
		Manuel De Landa, adjunct associate professor of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University featured
		Buffalo, NY — Manuel De Landa, adjunct associate professor of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, will speak at Canisius College on Monday, September 29 at 5 p.m.
		De Landa, a world renowned continental philosopher, has written three books published by MIT Press: War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1991), A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (1997) and Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (2002).
	canisius.edu /newsevents/display_story.asp?iNewsID=1721&.../Default.asp (281 words)

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