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De Landa became a principal figure in the "[[new materialism]]" based on his application of Deleuze's realist [[ontology]]. His universal research into "[[morphogenesis]]" - the production of the semi-stable structures out of material flows that are constitutive of the natural and social world - has been of interest to theorists across many academic and professional disciplines.
De Landa became a principal figure in the "[[new materialism]]" based on his application of Deleuze's realist [[ontology]]. His universal research into "[[morphogenesis]]" - the production of the semi-stable structures out of material flows that are constitutive of the natural and social world - has been of interest to theorists across many academic and professional disciplines.


Alongside his intellectual work, De Landa made several short [[Super 8 mm film|Super 8]] and 16mm films in the 1970s and early 1980s, all of which are now out of circulation. Cited by filmmaker [[Nick Zedd]] in his [[Cinema of Transgression]] Manifesto, De Landa associated with many of the experimental and art filmmakers of this New York based movement. Much of De Landa's film work is inspired by his interest in philosophy and critical theory; one of his best known films, ''Raw Nerves'', has been described as a '[[Lacan]]ian thriller' by at least one critic.
Alongside his intellectual work, De Landa made several short [[Super 8 mm film|Super 8]] and 16mm films in the 1970s and early 1980s. He pulled them from circulation after the original negatives were lost. In 2011, [[Anthology Film Archives]] restored and reissued them. Cited by filmmaker [[Nick Zedd]] in his [[Cinema of Transgression]] Manifesto, De Landa associated with many of the experimental and art filmmakers of this New York based movement. Much of De Landa's film work is inspired by his interest in philosophy and critical theory; one of his best known films, ''Raw Nerves'', has been described as a '[[Lacan]]ian thriller' by at least one critic.


He is currently working on a new book titled ''The Emergence of Synthetic Reason''.
He is currently working on a new book titled ''The Emergence of Synthetic Reason''.

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Manuel de Landa
Born1952
Mexico City, Mexico
Main interests
Morphogenesis
Nonlinear dynamics

Manuel De Landa, (born 1952 in Mexico City), is a writer, artist and philosopher who has lived in New York since 1975. He is presently the Gilles Deleuze Chair of Contemporary Philosophy and Science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland; a lecturer at the Canisius College in Buffalo, New York; a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and an adjunct professor at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture in Brooklyn, New York.[1] He was previously an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. De Landa has a BFA from New York's School of Visual Arts.

He is the author of War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1991), A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (1997), Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (2002) and A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity (2006). He has published many articles and essays and lectured extensively in Europe and in the United States. His work focuses on the theories of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze on one hand, and modern science, self-organizing matter, artificial life and intelligence, economics, architecture, chaos theory, history of science, nonlinear dynamics, cellular automata on the other.

De Landa became a principal figure in the "new materialism" based on his application of Deleuze's realist ontology. His universal research into "morphogenesis" - the production of the semi-stable structures out of material flows that are constitutive of the natural and social world - has been of interest to theorists across many academic and professional disciplines.

Alongside his intellectual work, De Landa made several short Super 8 and 16mm films in the 1970s and early 1980s. He pulled them from circulation after the original negatives were lost. In 2011, Anthology Film Archives restored and reissued them. Cited by filmmaker Nick Zedd in his Cinema of Transgression Manifesto, De Landa associated with many of the experimental and art filmmakers of this New York based movement. Much of De Landa's film work is inspired by his interest in philosophy and critical theory; one of his best known films, Raw Nerves, has been described as a 'Lacanian thriller' by at least one critic.

He is currently working on a new book titled The Emergence of Synthetic Reason.

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: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity (2006)
  • Deleuze: History and Science (2010)
  • Philosophy & Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason (forthcoming 2011)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ See: Manuel de Landa Faculty profile at European Graduate School

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