Manuel DeLanda - The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. 2007 2/5

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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[egsvideo]

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[rjgignac]

@StopTouchingMyFood

I am not convinced that having "only" one level of post secondary degree is any measure of the worth of ones thoughts

[protEAsE2]

It seems, interestingly enough that some people are understanding this in reverse! Deleuze is trying to be radically anti humanist not simply ascribing a human form of conciousness to animals. What he seems to me to be saying here is that by studying the nature and structure of conciousness, of expressivity etc we can than lead ourselves out of the limitations of a simple humanism by realising that these structures do not just apply to a narrow human subject.

[coreolis7]

He implies that the bluer bowerbird preceded the evolution of the more expressive bowerbird. Do we know that hereditary expressiveness is more primitive than deliberate expressiveness? If not, than maybe humans are no more expressive than animals, its just that ours is more voluntary, which leads to greater indiduality.

[TVCyborg]

the not human is still described within patriarchal terms: the "other", the bird, is spoken from a male perspective. before looking at "not humans" look at the humans that were cancelled from cultural history

[shantih433]

Many powerful ideas come from people who aren't at the top of the ivory tower. In fact, I wonder if there are some advantages to having stayed closer to the ground: less specialization, less devotion to one particular model or interpretation, less 'psychology of previous investment'.

It should also be noted that a substantial number of people with Ph.Ds have some pretty dumb ideas, too...

[ottoimken]

go Manuel - great stuff about expressivity!

[mahyarmohaghegh]

N den i shot the bird

HAHAHHAH YESSS

[heffmarg]

My favorite part of this video is when the students gasp and giggle when they hear about the Bower bird.

[ultrak0w]

rereading the history of science, as the most of have thought does not imply some sort of metaphysical conclusions 9gildedtermite for example)

[PallaAurinkoon]

Such a lowbrow comment shows a lack of a real argument. But I suppose a "substantial" argument such as making a mockery of man based upon his credentials will do.

[QUIETEXPECTATIONS]

This guy is a long way from anywhere... to be nice.