Professor Manuel DeLanda

Manuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist, and philosopher. In his new book, A New Philosophy of Society, he offers a fascinating look at how the contemporary world is characterised 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...

In A New Philosophy of Society, Manuel DeLanda offers a fascinating look at how the contemporary world is characterised 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...

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...

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 in the domain of the philosophy of science. As well as contemporary philosophical insights, the book also tackles new developments in geometry, complexity theory, and chaos theory...

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 disciplines of biology, ecological psychology, neuroscience, and robotics, the philosophical notion of 'the embodied mind', and the mathematical theories of dynamic systems, Materialist Phenomenology forms a synthesis of how to...

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,...