Intensive Science And Virtual Philosophy

Author : Manuel DeLanda
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781780935935

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Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy by Manuel DeLanda Pdf

First published 10 years ago, Manuel DeLanda's Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy rapidly established itself as a landmark text in contemporary continental thought. DeLanda here draws on the realist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to the domain of philosophy of science. As well as contemporary philosophical insights, the book also tackles new developments in geometry, complexity theory and chaos theory to bring new insights to our understanding of a scientific knowledge liberated from traditional ideas of essence. Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, this edition includes a new preface by Delanda, revisiting the themes of his book ten years on.

Author : Manuel De Landa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1846840481

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Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy by Manuel De Landa Pdf

Author : Manuel DeLanda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350096776

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Philosophy and Simulation by Manuel DeLanda Pdf

In this groundbreaking book, Manuel DeLanda analyzes different genres of simulation, from cellular automata and generic algorithms to neural nets and multi-agent systems, as a means to conceptualize the space of possibilities associated with casual and other capacities. This remarkably clear philosophical discussion of a rapidly growing field, from a thinker at the forefront of research at the interface of science and the humanities, is a must-read for anyone interested in the philosophies of technology, emergence and science at all levels.

Author : Ian Buchanan,Gregg Lambert
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0802093906

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Deleuze and Space by Ian Buchanan,Gregg Lambert Pdf

This collection takes up the challenge of thinking spatially by exploring Deleuze's spatial concepts in applied contexts: architecture, cinema, urban planning, political philosophy and metaphysics. In doing so, it brings together some of the most accomplished Deleuze scholars writing today - Reda Bensmaia, Ian Buchanan, Claire Colebrook, Tom Conley, Manuel DeLanda, Gary Genosko, Gregg Lambert and Nigel Thrift.

Author : Manuel Delanda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0982706715

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Deleuze by Manuel Delanda Pdf

This collection of essays, most published here for the first time, focuses on Gilles Deleuze's ideas about history and science. The focus is on ontological or metaphysical questions, including what are the legitimate inhabitants of the material world--natural and artificial--and what role should science play in determining their legitimacy?

Author : Manuel DeLanda
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474413657

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Assemblage Theory by Manuel DeLanda Pdf

Clarifies and systematises the concepts and presuppositions behind the influential new field of assemblage theoryRead and download the preface, by series editor Graham Harman, and the Introduction to Assemblage Theory for free nowManuel DeLanda provides the first detailed overview of the assemblage theory found in germ in Deleuze and Guattari's writings. Through a series of case studies DeLanda shows how the concept can be applied to economic, linguistic and military history as well as to metaphysics, science and mathematics.DeLanda then presents the real power of assemblage theory by advancing it beyond its original formulation allowing for the integration of communities, institutional organisations, cities and urban regions. And he challenges Marxist orthodoxy with a Leftist politics of assemblages.Key FeaturesCritically connects DeLanda with more recent theoretical turns in speculative realismMakes sense of the fragmentary discussions of assemblage theory in the work of Deleuze and GuattariOpens up assemblage theory to sociology, linguistics, military organisations and science so that future researchers can rigorously deploy the concept in their own fields"e;

Author : James Williams
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748668953

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Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition by James Williams Pdf

A new edition of this introduction to Deleuze's seminal work, Difference and Repetition, with new material on intensity, science and action and new engagements with Bryant, Sauvagnargues, Smith, Somers-Hall and de Beistegui.

Author : G. Howie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781403990204

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Deleuze and Spinoza by G. Howie Pdf

Expressionism, Deleuze's philosophical commentary on Spinoza, is a critically important work because its conclusions provide the foundations for Deleuze's later metaphysical speculations on the nature of power, the body, difference and singularities. Deleuze and Spinoza is the first book to examine Deleuze's philosophical assessment of Spinoza and appraise his arguments concerning the Absolute, the philosophy of mind, epistemology and moral and political philosophy. The author respects and disagrees with Deleuze the philosopher and suggests that his arguments not only lead to eliminativism and an Hobbesian politics but that they also cast a mystifying spell.

Author : Casper Bruun Jensen,Kjetil Rödje
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1845456149

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Deleuzian Intersections by Casper Bruun Jensen,Kjetil Rödje Pdf

Science and technology studies, cultural anthropology and cultural studies deal with the complex relations between material, symbolic, technical and political practices. In a Deleuzian approach these relations are seen as produced in heterogeneous assemblages, moving across distinctions such as the human and non-human or the material and ideal. This volume outlines a Deleuzian approach to analyzing science, culture and politics.

Author : John Protevi
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780816684502

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Life, War, Earth by John Protevi Pdf

A deep exploration of the many possibilities inherent in linking Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy to contemporary science, John Protevi’s Life, War, Earth demonstrates how Deleuze’s ontology of the virtual, intensive, and actual can enhance our understanding of important issues in cognitive science, biology, and geography. Protevi illustrates how a Deleuzian approach can illuminate a wide range of concerns and subjects, including ancient and contemporary warfare, human individuation processes, the “granularity problem,” panpsychism, the E. coli bacterium, the assassination attempt on U.S. representative Gabrielle Giffords, and the affective dimensions of the Occupy movement. Frequently ambitious but always rooted in the empirical, Life, War, Earth shows how the social and the somatic are not opposed to each other but are interwoven on three time scales—the evolutionary, the developmental, and the behavioral—and on three political scales—the geopolitical, the bio-neuro-political, and the technopolitical. Deeply attuned to the internalities of the thought of Deleuze, the book offers a unique reading of his corpus and a useful method for applying Deleuzian techniques to the natural sciences, the social sciences, political phenomena, and contemporary events.

Author : Manuel DeLanda,Graham Harman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509519064

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The Rise of Realism by Manuel DeLanda,Graham Harman Pdf

Until quite recently, almost no philosophers trained in the continental tradition saw anything of value in realism. The situation in analytic philosophy was always different, but in continental philosophy realism was usually treated as a pseudo-problem. That is no longer the case. In this provocative new book, two leading philosophers examine the remarkable rise of realism in the continental tradition. While exploring the similarities and differences in their own positions, they also consider the work of others and assess rival trends in contemporary philosophy. They begin by discussing the relation between realism and materialism, which DeLanda links closely but which Harman tries to separate. Part Two covers the many different meanings of realism, with the two authors working together to develop an expanded definition of the term. Part Three features a spirited exchange on the respective virtues and drawbacks of DeLanda's realism of attractors and singularities and Harman's object-oriented theory. Part Four shifts to the question of the knowability of the real, as the authors discuss whether scientific knowledge does full justice to reality. In Part Five, they shift the focus to space, time, and science more generally, and here Harman offers a defence of actor-network theory despite its obvious anti-realist elements. Lively, accessible and engaging, this book is the best attempt so far to clarify the different paths for realism in continental philosophy. It will be of great value to students and scholars of continental philosophy and to anyone interested in the cutting-edge debates in philosophy and critical theory today.

Author : Gilles Deleuze,Félix Guattari
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996-05-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231530668

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What Is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze,Félix Guattari Pdf

Called by many France's foremost philosopher, Gilles Deleuze is one of the leading thinkers in the Western World. His acclaimed works and celebrated collaborations with Félix Guattari have established him as a seminal figure in the fields of literary criticism and philosophy. The long-awaited publication of What Is Philosophy? in English marks the culmination of Deleuze's career. Deleuze and Guattari differentiate between philosophy, science, and the arts, seeing as means of confronting chaos, and challenge the common view that philosophy is an extension of logic. The authors also discuss the similarities and distinctions between creative and philosophical writing. Fresh anecdotes from the history of philosophy illuminate the book, along with engaging discussions of composers, painters, writers, and architects. A milestone in Deleuze's collaboration with Guattari, What Is Philosophy? brings a new perspective to Deleuze's studies of cinema, painting, and music, while setting a brilliant capstone upon his work.

Author : Eric Alliez
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0826456219

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Signature of the World by Eric Alliez Pdf

This text focuses on one of the most influential works of contemporary philosophy: 'What is Philosophy?' by Deleuze and Guattari. Alliez sets 'What is Philosophy?' in the context of earlier work by the two theorists and the work of both analytic philosophers and continental phenomenologists.

Author : Manuel De Landa
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780942299922

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A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History by Manuel De Landa Pdf

Following in the wake of his groundbreaking work War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a brilliant, radical synthesis of historical development of the last thousand years. A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari, while engaging — in an entirely unprecedented manner — the critical new understanding of material processes derived from the sciences of dynamics. Working against prevailing attitudes that see history merely as the arena of texts, discourses, ideologies, and metaphors, De Landa traces the concrete movements and interplays of matter and energy through human populations in the last millennium. The result is an entirely novel approach to the study of human societies and their always mobile, semi-stable forms, cities, economies, technologies, and languages. De Landa attacks three domains that have given shape to human societies: economics, biology, and linguistics. In each case, De Landa discloses the self-directed processes of matter and energy interacting with the whim and will of human history itself to form a panoramic vision of the West free of rigid teleology and naive notions of progress and, even more important, free of any deterministic source for its urban, institutional, and technological forms. The source of all concrete forms in the West’s history, rather, is shown to derive from internal morphogenetic capabilities that lie within the flow of matter—energy itself. A Swerve Edition.

Author : Levi R. Bryant
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:8596547762522

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The Democracy of Objects by Levi R. Bryant Pdf

Since Kant, philosophy has been obsessed with epistemological questions pertaining to the relationship between mind and world and human access to objects. In The Democracy of Objects, Bryant proposes that we break with this tradition and once again initiate the project of ontology as first philosophy. Drawing on the object-oriented ontology of Graham Harman, as well as the thought of Roy Bhaskar, Gilles Deleuze, Niklas Luhman, Aristotle, Jacques Lacan, Bruno Latour and the developmental systems theorists, Bryant develops a realist ontology that he calls "onticology". This ontology argues that being is composed entirely of objects, properties, and relations such that subjects themselves are a variant of objects. Drawing on the work of the systems theorists and cyberneticians, Bryant argues that objects are dynamic systems that relate to the world under conditions of operational closure. In this way, he is able to integrate the most vital discoveries of the anti-realists within a realist ontology that does justice to both the material and cultural. Onticology proposes a flat ontology where objects of all sorts and at different scales equally exist without being reducible to other objects and where there are no transcendent entities such as eternal essences outside of dynamic interactions among objects. Contents: Towards a Finally Subjectless Object Grounds For a Realist Ontology The Paradox of Substance Virtual Proper Being The Interior of Objects Regimes of Attraction, Parts, and Structure The Four Theses of Flat Ontology