Manuel DeLanda. Materialism, Experience and Philosophy. 2008 1/12

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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[lensherr82]

I love Manuel DeLanda.  He has the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively.

[TheHerm18]

Being as Deleuze was a big 'ol 68'er and that whole movement was rooted in notions of Unitary Urbanism and breaking down distinctions between art and life, I would say that a department of architecture makes sense. As much sense as a department of philosophy anyway, Besides real philosophy is mostly dead anyway, reduced to bickering between worthless pomo and inarticulate analytics. Gimme neo-materialism and bio-philosophy any day.....

[Shadapaga]

@TheHerm18 theres a million reasons why deleuze is important in architecture but your right.

[Edansmommy]

i'm not entirely sure why delanda presents phenomenology as an idealist philosophy that is radically opposed to materialism - Bourdieu sums up their relationship succinctly in his express desire to create "a science of the internalization of externality and the externalization of internality." Likewise, Merleau-Ponty claimed, "there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself...."

[baronmorris]

@FeelOfFriction

conditional inter-subjectivity is enoiugh. :-)

[whyohwhyfools]

The guy at the beginning sounds like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

[FeelOfFriction]

There is no such thing as objectivity. Science is failing.

[qaplatlhinganmaH]

Greco-Buddhism, sometimes spelt Graeco-Buddhism, refers to the cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism, which developed between the 4th century BCE and the 5th century CE

[InfectedDaemon]

I had no idea that Manuel DeLanda was Mexican.

[siadbarrbar]

delandas major point is that, by way of his thought and his ability to synthesize ideas from science, mathematics, marx, nietzsche, spinoza, and literature , deleuze seperated himself from what was termed "postmodern". The work turns out to be more than a regurgitatiion of nietzsche. Nothing personal but I find it hard to believe, judging by such a senseless comment, that you have read and comprehended Deleuze. How many ways can you interpret philosophers you dont read?

[AAGMach]

I don't think Delanda would disagree with what you have said.