source: European Graduate School Jan 20, 2010
http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel De Landa speaking about Explanations in the Social Realm during a seminar entitled Gilles Deleuze and Science. Discussing causality in the machinic world of Gilles Deleuze. De Landa stressed the importance of reason and motives when focusing on the relevance of action in the social realm. He uses Deleuzes theories to explain events through an alternative deep history, separating himself from the reified concepts of a generalized interpretation of the past. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland. Manuel Delanda