Manuel de Landa Part 1: The Geopolitics of Urban History

FIRST LECTURE: The Geopolitics of Urban History.

Why not China? Why not Islam? Why did the power of Europe (and its ex-colonies) ended up prevailing in this millennium?. This class explores the historical evidence that the rise of Europe was not fated and necessary, but a contingent achievement that may not have taken place at all. It also examines the role that European cities had in this process. A hypothesis proposed by the historian Fernand Braudel is that a comparison between medieval Western towns, on one hand, and those of Islamic and Chinese towns, on the other, reveals a strikingly different dynamics. While the growth and change of many (though not all) nonwestern towns was fairly linear, Western urban dynamics was characterized by turbulence and self-stimulating processes of different kinds.

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[CamSalisbury]

I like DeLanda but this is a total misrepresentation of the philosophical field. He essentially equates all 'correlationist' positions with Berkeley's naive idealism.

[JKLS00001]

DeLanda is the John Travolta of philosophy (but not in the scientologian sense)

[paintspace]

Would you please change the syndication settings to allow viewing via mobile devices.

[paintspace]

But why "the author of video doesn't allow playback on iPhone"?

[klarkewang]

De Landa is fabulous. Very impressive explaination of philosophical history.