Manuel De Landa. Theory of Language. 2009 5/12

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 DeLanda, (born 1952 in Mexico City), is a writer, artist and distinguished philosopher who has lived in New York since 1975. Manuel De Landa 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 De Landa 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). Manuel De Landa 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, Manuel 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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[CamSalisbury]

Again, Chomsky's Universal Grammar doesn't preclude heterogeneity at all. The syntax remains essentially consistent but there can be as many slangs, dialects, vernaculars, languages as you like. And De landa's example, Labov's experiment re: variations of language at different department stores, has to do with pronunciation, not syntax. So there's zero need to attack Chomsky here. I'm not even a big chomsky fan..but it's such an infuriating mischaracterization.

[MrBelaid123]

thanks from morocco