Manuel DeLanda. Deleuze and the History of Philosophy 2006 1/8

[mindfulspirit13]

It does take courage to step into the twilight zone. Find that courage. Namaste!

[Urdoxa]

delanda insists that the world is "independent from our minds" but the way i understood deleuze and whitehead was that neither the mind nor world holds an "independence" rather the mind is an actual entity made up of countless subordinate societies, entities, nexus, molecules, atoms, protons, electrons, vibrations etc. The virtual doesn't require the independence of one over the other, only a primordial space for the existence of minds just as well as rocks.

[nallgire]

it would be helpful to have captions, no?

[egsvideo]

dear nallgire, thank you for your comments. yes, absolutely. feel free to prepare these captions, we will embed them in the videos right away.

[zaynzaynzayn]

great vids. this speaker is good. but he needs to stand still some. and lisp less.

[FeelOfFriction]

@zaynzaynzayn

English is his second language asswipe.

[ogfunk187]

thanks so much for posting these (including greg lynns stuff). its a great source of info, please leave it up!!

[dhyanabum]

EGS is it some kind of cult?

[egsvideo]

yes. the european graduate school is "some kind of cult" - and its by invitation only. you are welcome.

[dhyanabum]

No thanks, I am not an enemy of reason.

[Shadapaga]

@egsvideo are these people serious with these ridiculous questions, how did you find this video if you are so ignorant

[avebarra]

I like Deleuze but I'm worried that this guy might pace himself to death.

[ehswan]

Dance, dance, where ever you may be, and don't get cought up in the language you see. Fore ever and for ever the language will be. For it's the lord of the dance you see.

[paintacanvass]

Yes, it's a shame that the original Christian hymn that inspired your comment is based on the worship of a religious martyr, who was SACRIFICED for humanity, isn't it?

[Albert11992288]

Not interesting for mathematicians, or physicists.

Philosophy = scientific vulgarization + non-scientific interpretations

[NoLies86]

o yeh?...what is "non-scientific"?

[StopTouchingMyFood]

well, except that this isn't philosophy.

It's something else entirely... art school drivel, mostly.

[paintacanvass]

If it weren't for philosophy, idiots like you would still be living under theocracies, your theorems and hypotheses stifled under religious dominance.

[B3LLEND]

Surely its more than coincidence then that some of the greatest Mathemeticians in history were also Philosophers:

Rene Descartes

Aristotle

Bertrand Russell

Kurt Godel

Pythagoras

To name only a few. Modern Science and Maths stems from philosophical ideas

Philosophaie Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principals of Natural Philosophie) arguably the geatest scientific work ever written, by Isaac Newton, Physicist and Mathematician.

Everything involves Philosophy, naive twat

[fraserdaly]

Ha, ha, ha. Remarks like that, on a video like this, were sure to elicit hostile responses.

Your remarks do an injustice to what is going on in much of mainstream contemporary philosophy, which I have a feeling you haven't really looked into.

[pilkingtonphil]

Pretty simple discrepancy here, I think I can clear up the misunderstanding.

Science = philosophical vulgarisation + non-philosophic interpretations.

It comes down to the question: is scientific discourse all there is? Is mathematics and it's derivatives capable of completely explaining human experience. Can it accomadate aesthetics, ethics and legality?

If not, and if philosophy is "not interesting" for scientists then scientists are reductionist and violent. Of course most non-dogmatic.....

[pilkingtonphil]

.....scientists, like one's that read fiction, fall in love or reflect on the meaning of existence beyond the closed language of formalism, would probably disagree with your blatent dogmatism.

But then dogmatic scientists tend - if you'll allow me to employ some psychological terms (be careful, these might imply intersubjectivity and hence be "unscientific") - to be narcissistic, overly sure of themselves, authoritarian, reductionist and, to be frank, closed off from 90% of human experience!

[paintacanvass]

Maybe you could involve them in that 90% of human experience then, or was that an attempt to dehumanise them?

[Xephon212]

I just discovered these EGS videos. Thank you very much for making them available to the public.

I'm struggling with my first readings of Deleuze and I found this video very enlightening and enjoyable.

Thanks again!

[ARTitvLLC]

if you want to expand your mind you have to open it first. his ideas are quite clear if you listen.

[hairhorn]

Delanda is too obscurantist for my taste. I really wish people like this would stay in English Lit departments where they belong.

[robpoe]

Philosophy is not a department, it is the construction of concepts to inform our lives. There is nothing obscure about DeLanda's lecture, its just a matter of taking the time to flesh out the meaning and work through the ideas.

[synthum]

exquisite! finally! DeLanda! too much! Deleuze!

[baudelaire123]

I don't know much about Deleuze, but how can mathematics be connected to being? "becoming infinitesimal", what can that possibly mean? an artist "must become like an animal", part of the inhuman world? What does this guy think art is?

'Oh Sokal, where is thy sting?'.

[elcagadero]

If you really want answers to those questions (at least im sure for the first one), get your hands on a book by De Landa called Intensive Science & Virtual Philosophy. First part of the book is dedicated to explaining the "mathematical foundations" to Deleuze ontology.

[0neironaut]

aw, you dont get it. poor guy.

[robpoe]

Sokal was responding to postmodernism, and Deleuze resides outside that circle of thought.

[WeWillWinAnarchy]

Lurk Moar! That's what I did. ; )

[kguidoni]

Hi!  Thanks a lot for uploading this video, I'd love to see the rest of the lecture. I attended one of De Landa's lectures at the Tate a few years ago, and I think he has a fantastic delivery of Deleuze's concepts in his lectures!