Manuel DeLanda
Manuel DeLanda (MX/US) is a cross-disciplinary contemporary philosopher.
Manuel DeLanda
Manuel DeLanda is a New York based philosopher and science writer whose interests/work span from nonlinear dynamics, theories of self-organization, cellular automata, artificial life to intelligence, chaos theory over architecture or history of science.
DeLanda is a professor at the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University, New York and the Gilles Deleuze Chair at EGS. Born in Mexico City he moved to New York in 1975 and became an independent filmmaker. In 1980 he turned his attention towards the computer, a pioneer programmer and computer art, before he emerged as one of the leading theorists of the electronic world, with a number of published papers, lectures around the globe and the four philosophy books, 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).
With V2_, he published the essays The Machinic Phylum in TechnoMorphica (1997) and The Archive Before and After Foucault in Information is Alive (2003).
Articles: Self-Organizing Markets, Markets and Antimarkets in the World Economy
Articles/Interviews: http://www.t0.or.at/delanda/
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/manueldelanda.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_de_Landa
