War in the Age of Intelligent Machines

A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity

Manuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist and philosopher. In his new book, he offers a fascinating look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social complexity. Since most social entities, from small communities to lar

A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

Following in the wake of his groundbreaking War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a radical synthesis of historical development over the last one thousand years. More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of Nonline

Intensive Science & Virtual Philosophy

Deleuze is now regarded as the most radical and influential of contemporary philosophers. Here Manuel DeLanda makes sense of Deleuze for both analytic and continental thought, for both science and philosophy.

The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism

Continental philosophy has entered a new period of ferment. The long deconstructionist era was followed with a period dominated by Deleuze, which has in turn evolved into a new situation still difficult to define. However, one common thread running throug

Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason

In this groundbreaking new book, Manuel Delanda analyzes all the different genres of simulation (from cellular automata and genetic algorithms to neural nets and multi-agent systems) as a means to conceptualize the possibility spaces associated with causa