Manuel DeLanda. A Materialist Theory of Language. 2011

source: European Graduate School     2012年11月13日
http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel Delanda, contemporary philosopher, uses assemblage theory to provide a materialist theory of language. In the process, DeLanda confronts linguists such as Noam Chomsky, William Labov, and Ferdinand de Saussure. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland. 2011 Manuel DeLanda.

Manuel DeLanda, (born 1952 in Mexico City), is a writer, artist and distinguished philosopher who has lived in New York since 1975. He is a professor and the Gilles Deleuze Chair of Contemporary Philosophy and Science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, a professor at the Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. DeLanda was formerly an Adjunct Associate Professor at Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University (New York).

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), A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity (2006), Deleuze: History and Science (2010), and Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason (2011). 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 science, 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.

Manuel De Landa. Immanent Patterns of Becoming. 2009 (1-14)

source: European Graduate School        Feb 11, 2010
http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel De Landa lecturing about the relationship between immanence and transcendence, focusing primarily on the materialist world of Gilles Deleuze concept of immanence during a seminar called Gilles Deleuze and Science" at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Manuel De Landa discussed the works of Henri Poinacaré and Réne Thom in relation to the topological thinking of Gilles Deleuze, specifically on differential calculus using topological thinking. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland. 2009 Manuel De Landa

Manuel De Landa. The Geography of Assemblage Theory. 2009 (1-7)

source: European Graduate School       Jan 25, 2010
http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel De Landa explaining Deleuzes notion of assemblage theory in contemporary society and discussing the notion of emerging properties in both tradition and rebellion during the formation of the nation-state over the last several centuries. De Landa spoke of Napoleon and Waterloo, about terrorism and the monolithic state, reification, social justice movements, the ecology of urban life, and Barack Obamas stimulus bill during a seminar entitled Gilles Deleuze and Science. He discussed the analysis of history through the notion of assemblage theory, focusing on the failure of Marxist revolutions throughout history, and the failure of Kantian categories when compared to the work of David Hume. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland. Manuel De Landa 2009

Manuel DeLanda. Materialism, Experience and Philosophy. 2008 (1-12)

source: European Graduate School       Jul 7, 2008
http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel DeLanda speaking about materialism and experience, Gilles Deleuze, materialist philosophy, left and marxist movement, a world of experience, philosophy of nature, social constructivism, sociology, materialism, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida. Free public open video lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Film Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2008. Manuel De Landa.

Manuel De Landa. Subjectivity and Thought in Gilles Deleuze. 2009 (1-11)

source: European Graduate School      Jan 6, 2010
http://www.egs.edu Manuel De Landa speaking about Deleuzian ideas of subjectivity, and the function of the mind in a seminar entitled Gilles Deleuze and Science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. In this third class, De Landa focused at first on the continuation of human subjectivity into the animal world. Furthering this, he spoke of the difference between Kant and Hume and their importance to Deleuze (as well as the history of twentieth century thought.) He discussed the different concepts of linguistic categories and how it structures and orders our world, creating differences. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland. Manuel De Landa 2009

Manuel De Landa. Explantations in the Social Realm. 2009 (1-11)

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

Manuel De Landa. Theory of Language. 2009 (1-12)

source: European Graduate School        Aug 15, 2009
http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel De Landa.speaking about the theory of language, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Postulates of Linguistics, language, linguistics, signifier, term, reference, meaning, grammar, changes in language, dialect and pronunciation, phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, standardization, Noam Chomsky, Ferdinand de Saussure and William Labov in a lecture at the European Graduate School EGS, in Saas Fee, Switzerland. Free Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2009 Manuel De Landa. Manuel Delanda.

Manuel De Landa. Deleuze and The New Materialism. 2009. (1-11)

source: European Graduate School       Jan 4, 2010
http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel de Landa speaking about the importance of Gilles Deleuze in the 21st century and the fundamentals of materialism in a seminar entitled Gilles Deleuze and Science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Questioning the role of structuralism and the post-modern position in philosophy, de Landa argues for a view of a materialist world autonomously removed from the concepts of our own mind. His challenge, he says, is to remove a transcendental plane from material objects, that is to remove the concept of essence from the world, without giving rise to a metaphysical position. Towards this, de Landa used the analogy of the battlefield as an example of the social material space to illustrate a plane of existence of extreme materiality. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland.

Manuel De Landa. Dualities of Meaning in Gilles Deleuze. 2009 (1-8)

source: European Graduate School        Feb 19, 2010
http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel De Landa lecturing about the duality of meaning in signification and significance in the Gilles Deleuze and Science seminar. He spoke about how these definitions shape perceptions and attitudes, drawing on Hume and Kant to explain the views of Gilles Deleuze. Referencing CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News to discuss the advent of advertising in the birth of media, and the resulting formations of power, De Landa explored ethical decisions both within, and without the Academy. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland. Manuel De Landa 2009

Manuel De Landa. Intensive Thinking in Deleuze's Materialism 2009 (1-7)

source: European Graduate School       Feb 19, 2010
http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel De Landa speaking about the idea of intensive thinking as a hallmark of Gilles Deleuzes materialism in a seminar entitled Gilles Deleuze and Science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. De Landa discussed the idea of difference in the circulation of matter and the process of production versus evolution. In intensive thinking, as De Landa explains, intensity replaces extensity; the things that matter in thinking are significance, relevance, importance versus a possible explication of a truth. De Landa spoke about Aristotle, Einstein, Heidegger, and the development of modern physics in an effort to explain his concepts. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland.

Manuel De Landa. Axiomatic Failure in the Thought of Gilles Deleuze 2009 (1-17)

source: European Graduate School       Jan 31, 2010
http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel De Landa discussing the philosophy of science and its failure to stand as a single monolithic entity and lecturing about Gilles Deleuzes concepts of synthesis, nomadology and distributed variation as a way to undermine axiomatic thought in contemporary society. De Landa discussed the increasing divergence between royal scientific fields versus nomadic scientific explorations, including the fields of linguistics, phenomenology, and sociology during a seminar called Gilles Deleuze and Science 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 - The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. 2007 (1-5)

source: European Graduate School         Jun 30, 2007
http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel DeLanda lecturing about the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Public Open Video Lecture at European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program. Saas-Fee, Switzerland 2007. Manuel De Landa. Gilles Deleuze.

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 at Columbia University (New York), a Professor for Contemporary Philosophy and Science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, a professor at the Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Manuel DeLanda. Deleuze and the History of Philosophy 2006 (1-8)

source: European Graduate School Video Lectures       Apr 10, 2007
http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel DeLanda lecturing about the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Henri Poincare, Albert Einstein, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, computer,science, logic, semantics, meaning, god, space, 3d, and the understanding of geometry and mathematics in an open lecture at European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program. Saas-Fee, Switzerland 2006. Manuel de Landa.

Manuel De Landa. Intensive Thinking in Deleuze's Materialism 2009 (1-7)

source: European Graduate School     Feb 19, 2010
http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel De Landa speaking about the idea of intensive thinking as a hallmark of Gilles Deleuzes materialism in a seminar entitled Gilles Deleuze and Science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. De Landa discussed the idea of difference in the circulation of matter and the process of production versus evolution. In intensive thinking, as De Landa explains, intensity replaces extensity; the things that matter in thinking are significance, relevance, importance versus a possible explication of a truth. De Landa spoke about Aristotle, Einstein, Heidegger, and the development of modern physics in an effort to explain his concepts. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland.

Manuel De Landa is, among other roles, a philosopher, media theorist, film maker, and artist. As these, he has inhabited and lived between the intersections of thinking and creativity, uncovering the interstices which link historically separate autonomous fields to each other. Beginning in the late 1970s in New York where he produced a number of underground 8 and 16 mm films, De Landa has been at the forefront of creative thinking, working at the outer edges of media theory and incorporating the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari into his ideas. Manuel De Landa holds the Gilles Deleuze Chair of Contemporary Philosophy at the European Graduate School as well as teaching at Columbia University, the University of Philadelphia and the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

De Landas close reading of Deleuze and Guattari, and more importantly his continuation or extension of their ideas, sees the creative potential of philosophy in a new materialism. In his writing he seeks to expand on the notion of a total unity, through assemblage, of multiple singularities. His work focuses on the idea that our rational view of the world in stable, solid structures is at best limited; instead he seeks clarification through the concept of liquidity, in which the liquid structures, constantly on the verge of chaos, have the greatest potential for creation. De Landa rejects viewing the world through a solely anthropocentric perspective and instead gains insight through an insistence on viewing nature from a non-anthropocentrically heirarchized environment. In this liquidity, De Landa see the power to self-organize and further, the ability to form an ethics of sorts, one untouched by human static control, and which allows an existence at the edge of creative, flowing chaos.

This unique vision comes to the fore in De Landas A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, in which he analyses history as a confluence of infinite variation, a flow of dynamic processes without rational, or traditional, order. De Landa sees in his history instead a revived form of materialism, liberated from the dogmas of the past. The history then presented is one of flowing articulations rather than one conducted along a linear, static construction. Moving beyond a concept of binary oppositions, De Landa instead sees a past of infinite bifurcations, a flowing, liquid unfolding which exposes a collective identity from a myriad of points and perspectives.

Manuel De Landa has written and published extensively since the early 1990s. His published work includes War In the Age of Intelligent Machines (1991), A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (2000), Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (2005), and most recently A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity (2006).