Manuel DeLanda. Materialism, Experience and Philosophy. 2008 4/12

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 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.

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 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.

Alongside his intellectual work, DeLanda made several short 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, DeLanda associated with many of the experimental and art filmmakers of this New York based movement. Much of DeLanda'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.

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[ThewildRageofGordon]

He seems to commit the same error Chomsky did (with syntax): he takes the current human genetic state (his own) and uses it as a base (also, actual 'ontic--comportments' are 'normal' [like our current state] not weird as with hallucinatory 'trips': they are 'destinations') ; one should consider that genetic mutation and 'flipped switches' make changes fast, especially in the small populations of 50-70k years ago.

[christopheclugston]

He is also lax on hard data linguistic research. This is the sort of soft side and meta side to what now has become very hard sicence--brain tracing, wiring etc has given very specific data as has linguistic research on the socio anthro level

[InfectedDaemon]

He starts to describe many aspects of Neurology and neurophysiology that I doubt he really, fully understands.

He completely misunderstands delirium for one, he says some memory is stored in Brocca's area (that only controls speech emission, and is similar to a motor area), he underscores short and long-term memory... but this isn't unique to him. All philosophers without a neuroscience back ground do this.

[christophercoltrane]

i wish that girl wouldnt laugh so much