Manuel DeLanda. Materialism, Experience and Philosophy. 2008 1/12
April 82010
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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April 8th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Greco-Buddhism, …
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
April 8th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
I had no idea that …
I had no idea that Manuel DeLanda was Mexican.
April 8th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
delandas major …
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?
April 8th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
I don’t think …
I don’t think Delanda would disagree with what you have said.
April 8th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Being as Deleuze …
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…..
April 8th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Well, at least not …
Well, at least not a department of architecture, which is where DeLanda teaches.
April 8th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Oh please do tell …
Oh please do tell what are real philosophy departments?
April 8th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
His example of snow …
His example of snow – ?
The 29 words for snow is also – informing – perception, creating experience. It is a ressource carried by language, which helps the mind in perceiving even if it has been generated via raw sensation.
Sensation and sensemaking is in interaction; new words can make experience more rich; organizing attention and perception…
April 8th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Or language is both …
Or language is both informed by raw sensation AND a worldbuilding complex in the incredible mindspace of man via the transmission of ideas made explicit and articulate. Language is worldbuilding of ‘reality’ supported by the real, which also is building up and giving form and intensity to psychic life…
April 8th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Ideas matter:
the …
Ideas matter:
the mind has an inbuild capacity to generate new forms:
The imaginary as dimension made explicit in discourse and in organization of matter and human enviroment – and implicit in organization of desire:
culture. new imaginaries with new capacities to affirm life and its core of pure eventfullness and potentiality taking place in this or that.
April 8th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
you are missing the …
you are missing the whole point of what he’s saying (and most of what deleuze warns us against…)
run back to the narrow, dusty confines of traditional academia from where you came. “one mustn’t study philosophy to appear healthy, one must study philosophy to be healthy.”
April 8th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Happily, real …
Happily, real philosophy departments can’t be bothered with this nonsense.
Delanda has a BFA and teaches architecture.
April 8th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
how many ways can …
how many ways can postmodernism regurgitate nietzsche?
April 8th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
i was hoping this …
i was hoping this was more of the one clip where he says its unethical to open a wine before it has aged properly.
But this is good too!
Should go well with his piece I just read in Sound Unbound
April 8th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
I love Manuel …
I love Manuel DeLanda. He has the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively.
April 8th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
fyi DeLanda… ” …
fyi DeLanda… “eskimo” is a politically incorrect term. The word to be used is “Inuit”.