Manuel DeLanda - The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. 2007 5/5

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.

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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[NihilAdmirari]

Thank you very much EGS, I will watch this 17 times. And maybe one day I will have the means to be there.

[egsvideo]

Thank you for the comment. Feel free to watch em over and over - but be aware: we are uploading more every day :)

[kurtweibers]

DeLanda is the best talker i've ever seen...it almost comes across in these 5 videos...he's sharp, fluid, funny...a wonderful interpreter, but not really, he's an original. He makes 1000 plateaus sensible. Quite an accomplishment.

[chapero1]

Fantastic. I'm reading Deluze at the moment and this is very usefull. Really enjoyable too.

[sgtmcwallace]

Its pretty neat that he concludes with the body without organs concept. Of the set of deleuzian contributions I have found that one to be particularly compelling with respoect to understanding of things like migrating pressure, orienting life strategies etc. Also in the way it hastens to connect with other deleuzian concepts. Delanda is really terrific.

[Sophisima]

This is not just food for the brain hence it is food for social and individual change. Indeed God is dead the matter is in itself life!

Humans, however, are ethic matter and therefore they need to relate their immanence to the grater mophology of society and humanity.

[rajasmasala]

god damn nipple pants. thought we left them back in the fifties.

[miguelbinha]

What a pleasure! Brain fooooooooood!

[paintacanvass]

Haha! What kind of a comment was that?

[shakeyourdimsims]

would be more convincing if his pants were not so high

[asandovalh]

When I'm a grown-up, I want to be like Manuel de Landa!

[francescap2]

I agree, what a wonderful speaker. As a philosophical neophyte i found this lecture emotive, all encompassing and yet logical and succinct. I was blown away. Thank you Manuel!!

[claitontesch]

very good!!!!!!!

[GildedTermite]

A body without organs? Did he steal this from Artaud?