Manuel DeLanda

Manuel DeLanda (also known as Manuel De Landa or Manuel de Landa) (Mexico City, 1952), is a New York-based Mexican writer, artist, and philosopher who has a very varied and exceptional multidisciplinary work. He has written extensively on nonlinear dynamics, self-organization theories, life and artificial intelligence (A.I), chaos theory, architecture, and history of science. DeLanda is currently a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School in New York in the area of architecture and is the Gilles Deleuze Chair at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He moved to New York in 1975 where he became a film director. In the 1980s he became interested in computing, was a pioneer programmer and made digital art, becoming one of the foremost theorists in the field of cybernetics. Much of his intellectual work has consisted of coordinating the philosophy of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze with the contemporary sciences of complexity and information theory to offer a realistic and materialist approach to knowledge of reality, through a general theory of assemblage., work to which he has dedicated himself for 30 years.

Biography

In 1975, Manuel DeLanda came to New York City to study film. In the third year of his degree, he managed to have his films shown at the Whitney Museum Biennial and later, in 1979, one of his shorts was chosen for the New York Film Festival. However, he decided to drop out due to time constraints.

Later, DeLanda decided to reinvent himself and purchased a 64k Cromemco computer (which had to be pre-assembled for use). With no software available for the machine, DeLanda became interested in programming, starting with Basic and then continuing with Pascal.

These two stages of his life, in addition to his interest in mathematics and French philosophy (particularly Deleuze, Foucault, and Guattari), ultimately led him to pursue philosophy. More specifically, it was in 1983 when he stopped making movies to "dedicate himself to computer programming, writing, teaching and philosophy".

In May 1981, he submitted his essay entitled Wittgenstein at the Movies (Wittgenstein at the cinema) in Cinema Histories, Cinema Practices I, event organized by the University of Southern California, which was later published in 1984 in a collective text dedicated to cinema; and between 1986 and 1989 he wrote his book War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (War in the age of intelligent machines), a text in which he reviews the increasingly The presence of artificial intelligence in the war environment is important, a non-human agency that ends, even partially, displacing the human being from the center of the arms scene. Later, in 1997, he published A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (Thousand years of non-linear history) , where he made a deep historical analysis of a multitude of phenomena of reality. and proposes a new philosophy of history that understands individual entities as results of a "historical synthesis" specific, addressing the geological, biological and linguistic fields.

Film stage

After moving to New York, DeLanda made several experimental films between 1975 and 1982, some as part of an undergraduate course at the School of Visual Arts. While there, DeLanda studied with video artist Joan Braderman, whom he would marry in 1980 and collaborate on several works (such as Braderman's Joan Does Dynasty [1986], Raw Nerves [1980] by DeLanda and Ismism [1979], also by DeLanda), before divorcing at an indeterminate time.

Influenced by the No Wave movement, DeLanda's Super 8 and 16mm films also served as methodical and theoretical approaches to the format. She withdrew them from circulation after the original negatives were lost. Finally, in 2011, Anthology Film Archives restored and republished them.

Quoted by filmmaker Nick Zedd in his Transgression Film Manifesto, DeLanda associated with many of the New York-based experimental filmmakers of this movement. In 2010, he appeared in Céline Danhier's retrospective documentary Blank City. Much of his work was inspired by his budding interest in continental philosophy and critical theory; one of his best known films is Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller (1980).

After moving on to the non-deterministic synthesis of Baudrillardian and Deleuzian theory, command and control techniques, and materialist concerns about complex systems and artificial life (including cellular automata) that would make up "Policing the Spectrum" (1986) and War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1992), DeLanda reportedly largely abandoned, by the mid-1980s, his interests in "post-Freudian ideas of the unconscious.".. as well as any interest in film theory".

Thought

DeLanda, together with Graham Harman, is a pioneer in the introduction of realism to the debates of "the continental philosophy".

Deleuze and the new materialism

DeLanda is strongly influenced by the thought of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. He is one of the representatives of the new materialism, reinterpreting and reworking Deleuze's philosophy and concepts. DeLanda affirms that science can be at the service of philosophy as long as it is materialist, since phenomenological philosophy leads to nothing more than an empty speculation of reality.

To know reality, we must first be aware of our materiality, making it our own and understanding it. Morphogenesis (from the Greek 'morphê', form and 'genesis' creation, literally the “origin of form”) is, in his philosophy, the production of stable structures arising from material flows and represents a fundamental concept for the understanding of said materialism.

This new type of materialism is based on the three states of matter –which coexist without mutually eliminating each other–, ensuring that the liquid is the most interesting, since it reinvents itself, self-organizes, changes and creates its own form. This idea is also applied to a theory on ethics, history, chaos, social complexity and art.

The three types of reasoning

Speaking out against the use and sacralization of a single method, the scientist, DeLanda speaks of three types of reasoning or explanatory strategies that in philosophy should be used together for a clearer and deeper understanding of a system or phenomenon, being able to fully apprehend a system and its operation by providing a non-linear vision of its development.

Population thinking

It arose with Darwin and Mendel and their discoveries about natural selection and genetic inheritance. This type of reasoning is based on the evolutionary factor of organisms or systems. The general rule that DeLanda uses to explain this is: "Any population of related variable replicators with some filter leads to evolution." There are four key elements within this particular way of thinking. Namely:

Population: It refers to a reproductive community, that is, with enough members to make procreation even viable.

Replicators: They are genes, memes, and norms, behavior patterns transmitted by obligation.

Variables: Fluctuations, changes that allow evolution. According to DeLanda, it is not possible for a system to evolve without heterogeneity. Speaking of animals, when a group stops playing with different specimens, evolution will cease.

Filters: Any pressure applied to such groups, such as predators, parasites and others of artificial origin.

This part of the method is used by Deleuze to talk about phenomena, systems or things in themselves, not their origins, their operation, or behavior.

Intensive thinking

It comes from thermodynamics, a scientific discipline that emerged in the XVI century that revolutionized the conception of machines, because, Unlike the wind-up mechanisms that had existed until then, the motion and energy came from the machine itself.

This thought is based on the principle that energy is necessary for the operation of everything. This, if added to the factors of population thought, will promote morphogenesis, the creation of biological and non-biological bodies where energy exchanges take place.

To explain the above, DeLanda returns to the distinction of magnitudes in thermodynamics: extensive and intensive. The former are divisible (volume, area, length, etc.), while the latter are not (pressure, temperature, speed, density, concentration, etc.). What the intensive magnitudes contribute to this study is that when differences occur in them, such as a change in temperature, changes and flows are generated in the processes, movement. In this way, intensive differences function as fuel not only in such processes, but also in larger-scale ones, such as history, climate, economics, and evolution.

Intensive properties or magnitudes also present thresholds or critical points. Water, for example, presents two, when heated up to 100 °C and when cooled down to 0 °C: evaporation and solidification. They are points at which variations in quantity are also variations in quality, which can lead to morphogenic events. The intensive dimension of the method is used to explain the origins of entities.

Topological thinking

Topological thought is used to calculate possibility spaces, that is, all possible ends of a thing in terms of changes. Everything material has capacities and tendencies. Capacities can be real, insofar as they actually happen, or virtual, which have not happened in the past or in the present, but have the potential to happen. This structure of the space of possibilities can be represented graphically, through the advances in the measurement of three-dimensional spaces achieved by Friedrich Gauss and Bernhard Riemann. By means of a theoretical addition, they managed to get rid of the Cartesian plane as a reference for the measurement of said spaces, using the immediate curvature and its changes as a variable. DeLanda calls this change in curvature “velocity of becoming”, since, if the manifold is used as a method of representation, it will show how the systems that are calculated with it change and become something else.

Phase spaces play an important role in this model, as they represent the possible state spaces. To achieve the representation, it is first necessary to identify the relevant variables that affect the system. A pendulum, in this case, could vary in speed and position. Subsequently, a variety must be created with as many dimensions as degrees of freedom (variables) the system has for later, with points distributed in this space called series of states (trajectories formed by "states of the system", which represent points in the space of possibilities.), draw the entire possibility space; a space that will give a possible response to the behavior of more complex systems as these trajectories approach the attractors located at a point of the manifold. The attractors represent stable, equilibrium or near-equilibrium states of the system. However, if a system is studied from its absolute equilibrium point, its full repertoire of virtual capabilities will not unfold.

Most notable works

A thousand years of nonlinear history", DeLanda's first book to be translated into Spanish. This is the first edition, starting in 2011, appearing in 2017 the second edition.

War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1991)

In this book, DeLanda traces the history of war and technology through the use of weapons and smart bombs and their relationship to the dehumanization of war, the mystification of technologies, the obsession with surveillance, and the conversion of a conflict in training.

A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (1997)

DeLanda speaks of historical processes as changes of state. When talking about intensive thinking, she refers to critical thresholds as the origin of change. History, thought under this logic, would also obey transformations, specifically of state.

According to DeLanda, there have been two historiographical models: the one based on physics (specifically on thermodynamics) and the one based on the theory of evolution. However, she affirms that both have been limited, since the first always responds in terms of balance, and the second in terms of the “best design”, thus leaving only one possible path for historical events. In this way, the proposal would be to move away from equilibrium and the search for the best design to have more historical possibilities, taking into account minor fluctuations and emergent properties as determinants of changes or bifurcations in the systems.

DeLanda structures the book into three chapters, each with a distinct historical narrative spanning the thousand-year period of the 11th century to the XX.

Chapter 1: Lavas and Magmas

DeLanda speaks of historical processes as changes of state. When talking about intensive thinking, she refers to critical thresholds as the origin of change. History, thought under this logic, would also obey transformations, specifically of state.

According to DeLanda, there have been two historiographical models: one based on physics (specifically thermodynamics) and one based on evolutionism. However, she affirms that both have been limited, since the first always responds in terms of balance, and the second in terms of the “best design”, thus leaving only one possible path for historical events. In this way, the proposal would be to move away from equilibrium and the search for the best design to have more historical possibilities, taking into account minor fluctuations and emergent properties as determinants of changes (bifurcations) in the systems.

Chapter 2: Genes and Biomass

In it, DeLanda talks about cities as simplified ecosystems. The narrative focuses on flows of organic matter such as germs, plants, and animals. Colonial enterprises are treated as a means of "redirecting food flows towards the territories of cities" and as "a means by which the genes of multiple non-human species have invaded and conquered alien ecosystems".

Chapter 3: Memes and Rules

"Theory of Assemblies and Social Complexity" is the latest book by DeLanda published in Spanish-speaking, translated in Argentina on 2021.

There is talk of the flow of linguistic materials, of why some languages managed to predominate over others through fluency, unlike the stony state of, for example, cultured Latin, which solidified when it became standardized.

Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (2002)

Work in which DeLanda defends an approach to the work of Deleuze with a particular interest in the philosophy of science. In it, she explores the possibilities that contemporary mathematics offers to understand the existing chaos in any ontological order, as well as dedicating space to review the notions of space, time and causality.

A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity (2006)

It is an attempt by DeLanda to challenge the sociological paradigm of carrying out fruitful analyzes by reducing the study on a small and large scale, that is, from the particular actions of individuals to the behavior of societies as a whole. She uses Deleuze's assemblage theory to study social entities at all scales.

Assemblage Theory (2016)

Here the Assemblage Theory as such is reviewed in detail, both in its theoretical justification and in its practical application to first-order knowledge.

Materialist Phenomenology. A Philosophy of Perception (2021)

Work in which DeLanda tries to reconcile materialism with phenomenology. Through the union between the scientific field (with knowledge of the first order of various kinds), the conceptual heritage of "the embodied mind", as well as the theoretical instruments of applied mathematics (particularly the theory of dynamic systems); DeLanda seeks to address the epistemological concerns of new-style realism, his epistemological proposal being one that claims to keep up with developments in cognitive research of the century XXI.

Books published

• De Landa, M. (1991). War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (First ed.) New York: Zone Books.
• De Landa, M. (1997). A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (First ed.) New York: Zone Books.
• de Landa, M. (1997). Netzwerke, Hierarchien und die Schnittstellen-Problematik. Meshworks, Hierarchies and the Question of the Interface (First ed.) Bern: Benteli Verlag.
• DeLanda, M. (2006). New Philosophy of Society. Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity (First ed.) Gosport: Continuum.
• DeLanda, M. (2010). Deleuze. History and Science (First ed.) New York and Dresden: Atropos Press.
• DeLanda, M. (2011). Philosophy and Simulation. The Emergence of Synthetic Reason (First ed.) London and New York: Continuum.
• DeLanda, M. (2013). Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (Second ed.) London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
• DeLanda, M. (2015). Philosophical Chemistry. Genealogy of a Scientific Field (First ed.) London and New York: Bloombury Academic.
• DeLanda, M. (2016). Assemblage Theory (First ed.) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• DeLanda, M. (2018). ISM ISM (First ed.) (A. Lampert, " J. Klacsmann, Eds.) Longo: J mortgageL Books and Anthology Film Archives.
• DeLanda, M. (2021). Materialist Phenomenology. A Philosophy of Perception (First ed.) London: Bloomsbury Academic.
• DeLanda, M., " Harman, G. (2017). The Rise of Realism (First ed.) Cambridge: Polity Press.

Books translated into Spanish

Sadly, despite being an author of Mexican origin, his work barely has a presence in the Hispanic world. Only recently has his work begun to be translated into Spanish:

• De Landa, M. (2017). A thousand years of nonlinear history (Second ed.) (C. De Landa Acosta, Trad.) Barcelona: Editorial Gedisa, S.A.
• DeLanda, M. (2021). Theory of assembly and social complexity (First ed.) (C. De Landa Acosta, Trad.) Buenos Aires: Tinta Limón Editions.

Articles, interviews and chapters in collective books

• De Landa, M. (1984). Wittgenstein at the Movies. In P. Mellencamp (Ed.), Cinema histories, cinema practices (pp. 108-119). Los Angeles: The American Film Institute.
• De Landa, M. (1992). Virtual environments as intuition synthesisers. Retrieved from Collaboratory for Digital Discourse and Culture: https://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/delanda/pages/intuition.htm
• De Landa, M. (1993). Inorganic Life and Predatory Machines. In B. Boigon (Ed.), Culture Lab 1 (pp. 27-38). New York, United States: Princeton Architectural Press. Retrieved fromhttps://archive.org/details/culturelab10000cult
• De Landa, M. (1 January 1995). Homes: Meshwork or Hierarchy? Retrieved from Mediamatic: https://www.mediamatic.net/en/page/8931/homes-meshwork-or-hierarchy
• de Landa, M. (1995). The Geology of Morals - A Neomaterialist Interpretation. Retrieved from FUTURE NON STOP: http://future-nonstop.org/c/818d3d85eca43d66ff0ebd1dfedda6e3
• de Landa, M. (1995). Uniformity and Variability - An Essay in the Philosophy of Matter. Retrieved from FUTURE NON STOP: http://future-nonstop.org/c/e5b1507b909bdeff19065774c5dae5ad
• de Landa, M. (1996). An Interview with Manuel de Landa. (K. Becker, M. M., Interviewers) Retrieved from http://future-nonstop.org/c/bad189cc715b73b2e88626a072d17a64
• De Landa, M. (1996). Markets and Antimarkets in the World Economy. In S. Aronowitz, B. Martinsons, M. Menser, & J. Rich (Eds.), Technoscience and Cyberculture (pp. 181-194). London; New York: Routledge.
• de Landa, M. (1997). The sciences of information and power. Mexico City, Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
• De Landa, M. (1998). Extensive Borderlines and Intensive Borderlines. In L. Woods, " E. Rehfeld (Eds.), BorderLine (pp. 18-24). New York, United States: Springer-Verlag/Wien and RIEAeuropa.
• De Landa, M. (20 September 1998). Markets, Antimarkets, and the Internet. Retrieved from Nettime: http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9809/msg00087.html
• de Landa, M. (1998). Meshworks, Hierachies and Interfaces. Retrieved from FUTURE NON STOP: http://future-nonstop.org/c/365da226444cd45ed94ed999e203ece6
• De Landa, M. (1999). Deleuze, Diagrams, and the Open-Ended Becoming of the World. In E. Grosz (Ed.), Becomings: explorations in time, memory, and futures (pp. 29-41). Ithaca and New York: Cornell University Press.
• De Landa, M. (2000). Deleuze, Diagrams, and the Genesis of Form. Amerikastudien / American Studies, XLV(1), 33-41. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/41157534
• De Landa, M. (2000). The nonlinear development of cities. Network Urbanism, OASE(53), 101-112. Retrieved from https://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/53/TheNonlinearDevelopmentOfCities
• De Landa, M. (April 2001). Design philosophy. The case of modeling programs. Verb Processing131-143.
• De Landa, M. (4 July 2003). 1000 Years of War. Ctheory Interview with Manuel De Landa. (M. DeLanda, D. Ihde, C. Brunn Jensen, J. Friis Jorgersen, S. Mallavarapu, E. Mendieta,... J. S. Proveti, Interviewers) Retrieved from https://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0307/msg00016.html
• De Landa, M. (2005). Virtual environments and the emergence of synthetic reason. In J. Broadhurst Dixon, E. J. Cassidy (Eds.), Virtual futures. Cyberotics, technology and post-human pragmatism (pp. 85-102). London and New York: Routledge.
• De Landa, M. (2007). Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture. In W. W. Braham, J. A. Hale, & J. S. Sadar (Eds.), Rethinking Technology. A Reader in Architectural Theory (pp. 388-393). Routledge.
• de Landa, M. (2009, June). The Limits of Urban Simulation: An Interview with Manuel DeLanda. 50-55. (N. Leach, Interviewer) Architectural Design. doi:10.1002/ad.917
• de Landa, M. (24 September 2010). The Importance of Imperfections. Retrieved from boiteaoutils became The Funambulist: http://boiteaoutils.blogspot.com/2010/09/importance-of-imperfections-by-manuel.html
• De Landa, M. (2012). Form-Finding through Simulated Evolution. In M. Voyatzaki, " C. Spiridonidis ", Rethinking the Human in Technology Driven Architecture (pp. 19-28). Thessaloniki: EAAE. Retrieved from http://www.enhsa.net/Publications/AR2011.pdf
• de Landa, M. (2012, April). Manuel de Landa in conversation with Timur Si-Qin. (T. Si-Qin, Interviewer) Retrieved from Timur Si-Qin: http://timursiqin.com/manuel-de-landa-in-conversation-with-timur-si-qin
• de Landa, M., " Garnett, J. (2001). Rocket Science. United States: Debs " Co.
• de Landa, M., Magali, A., Barry, J., Bauer, U. M., Cruz, T., Easterling, K.,... Yard, S. (2007). Dynamic balance: in search of public land (First ed.) (S. Yard, J. Dunn, M. Kjaer, S. del Castillo, M. E. González, M. Quiroz Luna, I. Galina, Edits., M. E. González, M. Cinta, C. Ranc Enríquez, F. Rogers, P. Villeda, Trads.) San Diego: Installation Gallery. https://archive.org/details/equilibriodinami0000unse
• De Landa, M., Pauline, M., Dery, M. (4 January 1993). Out of Control. Retrieved from WIRED: https://www.wired.com/1993/04/out-of-control/
• DeLanda, M. (1988). Manuel DeLanda. A Critical Cinema. Interviews with Independent Filmmakers. (S. MacDonald, Interviewer) Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press.
• DeLanda, M. (1992). Nonorganic Life. In J. Crary, " S. Kwinter (Eds.), Incorporations (pp. 129-167). Zone Books.
• DeLanda, M. (1992). War in the Age of Intelligent Machines: An Interview with Manuel DeLanda. Public127-134. (A. Payne, Interviewer) Public Access. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/violence0000unse_i5f0/page/n3/mode/2up
• DeLanda, M. (1994). Interview with Manuel DeLanda. (K. Pirc, Interviewer) https://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/delanda/pages/interview_pirc.htm
• DeLanda, M. (1995). Virtual Environments and the Concept of Synergy. Leonardo, XXVIII(5), 357-360. doi:10.2307/1576218
• DeLanda, M. (1996). Markets and Anti-Markets. Retrieved from XENOPRAXIS: http://xenopraxis.net/readings/delanda_marketsandantimarkets.pdf
• DeLanda, M. (1997). THE MACHINIC PHYLUM. Retrieved from V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media: https://v2.nl/archive/articles/the-machinic-phylum
• DeLanda, M. (1998). Deleuze and the open-ended becoming of the world. Retrieved from Collaboratory for Digital Discourse and Culture: https://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/delanda/pages/becoming.htm
• DeLanda, M. (1999). Economics, Computers, and the War Machine. In T. Druckrey, & A. Electronica (Eds.), Ars Electronica: Facing the Future. A Survey of Two Decades (pp. 319-325). Cambridge; London: The MIT Press. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/arselectronicafa0000unse_d9d5
• DeLanda, M. (1999). Immanence and Transcendence in the Genesis of Form. In I. Buchanan (Ed.), A deleuzian century? (pp. 119-134). Durham: Duke University Press.
• DeLanda, M. (2001). Open-Source: A Movement in Search of a Philosophy. Collaboratory for Digital Discourse and Culture: https://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/delanda/pages/opensource.htm
• DeLanda, M. (2003, September). Can Theories of Self-Organization Help Us Understand Human History? Retrieved from Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/310645022_Theories_of_Self-Organization_and_Human_History
• DeLanda, M. (2003). The Archive Before and After Foucault. In J. Brouwer, " A. Mulder ", Information is Alive (pp. 8-13). Rotterdam: V2_/NAi Publishers. Retrieved from https://v2.nl/files/2017/pdf/information-is-alive-pdf-part-i
• DeLanda, M. (2004). Material Complexity. In N. Leach, T. David, " C. Williams ", Digital Tectonics (pp. 14-21). Wiley-Academy.
• DeLanda, M. (2004). Materiality: Anexact and Intense. In L. Spuybroek (Ed.), NOX: Machining Architecture (First ed., pp. 370-377). London, United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson.
• DeLanda, M. (2004). Philosophy as Intensive Science. In H. Carel, " D. Gamez (Eds.), What philosophy is (pp. 51-72). London; New York: Continuum.
• DeLanda, M. (2005). Beyond the Problematic of Legitimacy: Military Influences on Civilian Society. boundary 2, XXXII(1), 117-128. doi:10.1215/01903659-32-117
• DeLanda, M. (2005, February). Matter Matters. Retrieved from Reseachgate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311369961_Matter_Matters
• DeLanda, M. (2005). Space: Extensive and Intensive, Actual and Virtual. In I. Buchanan, " G. Lambert ", Deleuze and Space. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• DeLanda, M. (2005). Vienna Out Of Equilibrium. Wien Aus Dem Gleichgewicht. In P. Noever (Ed.), Lebbeus Woods. System Wien (pp. 23-31). Hatje Cantz Publishers.
• DeLanda, M. (2006). Deleuze in phase space. In S. Duffy (Ed.), Virtual Mathematics. The Logic of difference (pp. 235-247). Clinamen Press.
• DeLanda, M. (2006). Deleuzian Social Ontology and Assemblage Theory. In M. Fuglsang, " M. Sørensen ", Deleuze and the Social (pp. 250-266). Edinburgh University Press.
• DeLanda, M. (2007). The expressivity of space. In R. Lozanp-Hemmer (Ed.), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Some things happen more times than all the time. Some Things Happen More Often Than All of the Time (pp. 99-105). Mexico: Turner. https://www.antimodular.com/texts/bibliography/articles_interviews_essays/somethings_happen_more_often_2007_md_.pdf
• DeLanda, M. (2007). Elegance material. Architectural Design, LXXVII(1), 18-23. doi:10.1002/ad.392
• DeLanda, M. (3 December 2008). Building with Bone and Muscle. Retrieved from LEBBEUS WOODS: https://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/manuel-delanda-matters-1/
• DeLanda, M. (2008). Deleuze, Materialism and Politics. In I. Buchanan, " N. Thoburn ", Deleuze and Politics (pp. 160-177). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• DeLanda, M. (13 December 2008). Events Producing Events. Retrieved from LEBBEUS WOODS: https://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2008/12/13/manuel-delanda-matters-2/
• DeLanda, M. (2008). Towards a new ontology of the social. Manuel DeLanda in interview. 75-85. (I. Farías, Interviewer) Person and Society. https://personaysociedad.uahurtado.cl/index.php/ps/article/view/159
• DeLanda, M. (2008, January). Molar Entities and Molecular Populations in Human History. Retrieved from Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297175986_Molar_entities_and_molecular_populations_in_human_history
• DeLanda, M. (December 23, 2008). One Dimension Lower. Retrieved from LEBBEUS WOODS: https://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/manuel-delanda-matters-3/
• DeLanda, M. (2008). The Virtual Breeding of Sound. In P. D. Miller (Ed.), Sound unbound: sampling digital music and culture (pp. 219-226). Cambridge; London: The MIT Press.
• DeLanda, M. (2009). Agencements versus totalités. Multitudes, XXXIX(4), 137-144. doi:10.3917/mult.039.0137
• DeLanda, M. (2009). Ecology and Realist Ontology. In B. Herzogenrath (Ed.), DeleuzeUDGuattari & Ecology (First ed., pp. 23-41). Hampshire & New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• DeLanda, M. (5 January 2009). Expressivity material. Retrieved from LEBBEUS WOODS: https://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/manuel-delanda-matters-4/
• DeLanda, M. (30 January 2009). Opportunities and Risks. Retrieved from LEBBEUS WOODS: https://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/manuel-delanda-opportunities-and-risks/
• DeLanda, M. (February 27, 2009). Smart Materials. Retrieved from LEBBEUS WOODS: https://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/manuel-delanda-smart-materials/
• DeLanda, M. (2010). Afterword. The Metaphysics of Science. An Interview with Manuel DeLanda. The Force of the Virtual. Deleuze, Science, and Philosophy325-332. (P. Gaffney, Interviewer, P. Gaffney, Editor) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• DeLanda, M. (2010). Cities and Nations. In J. Hillier, P. Healey (Eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning Theory. Conceptual Challenges for Spatial Planning (First ed., pp. 251-272). United Kingdom: Ashgate.
• DeLanda, M. (24 March 2010). Virtual Cooperation: Interview with Manuel DeLanda. (G. Muñoz, Interviewer) http://gerrypinturavisual.blogspot.com/2010/03/virtual-cooperation-una-entrevista-con.html
• DeLanda, M. (27 July 2010). Emergence. Retrieved from LEBBEUS WOODS: https://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/manuel-delanda-emergence/
• DeLanda, M. (2010). Material(ism) for Architects: a Conversation with Manuel DeLanda. (C. Curti, Interviewer) Cluster. http://www.cluster.eu/v4/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/material_ism_for_architects.pdf
• DeLanda, M. (2011). Emergence, Causality and Realism. In L. Bryant, N. Srnicek, " G. Harman (Eds.), The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and realism (First ed., pp. 381-392). Melbourne, Australia: re.press.
• DeLanda, M. (10 March 2011). Interview with Manuel Delanda. A techno-scientific philosopher in the hacker century. (N. Yehya, Interviewer) https://revistareplicante.com/entrevista-con-manuel-delanda/
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