Manuel DeLanda - The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. 2007 3/5

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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[Pricueni]

Thank you so much for this video. Did you film it in university?

[egsvideo]

thank you for the comment. the open lecture is part of his annual workshop at the european graduate school in switzerland. feel free to watch our other lectures as well - and dont be afraid, hundreds more are on the way. thank you.

[paulelu]

thank you very much

[proximate0play]

Totally. Since Deleuze hit the scene, doctoral candidates can pass comprehensive exams by submitting "narrative cubes" and iMovie collages with titles like "The Rubric of Becoming" and crap. One guy said Deleuze was unique because he introduced "concept generating" ... someone fill me in.

Deleuze's philosophic work is rigorous and fascinating, but the way he's being used is so flighty and empty (please no "line of flight" comments!).

[MrSodapopinski51]

@S2Cents - I would hardly use a nature program on cable as a correct representation of reality. You have to understand that 'cable' is an ideological construction that propagates certain types of information...'they' want us to desire war.

[fujiujijii]

i am also a biology student. yeah, it makes sense.

[gen6k]

lol

[gen6k]

violence is inherent to nature in some capacity, astriods, planets exploding. violence is some de-exhalation towards a group that identifies as something other. militarism and human violence is closer to carnivorous. all animals are violent, but many don't overuse anger, fight/flight, misunderstanding, arguement for their groups benefit or sheer boredom with themselves.

[meinonghitdatbong]

maybe deleuze.. or at least hed say he does.

[shakeyourdimsims]

waay too many examples. Affordance schmordance pal. get to the point.

[ultrak0w]

i wonder if levinas and deleuze could speak to one another on the face

[ashburnhouse]

I am a biology student and I actually don't know what he is talking about. Does anyone else?

[christophercoltrane]

war is a highly developed form of theft