Introduction: Deleuze's World. 1. The Mathematics of the Virtual: Manifolds, Vector Fields and Transformation Groups. 2. The Actualization of the Virtual in Space. 3. The Actualization of the Virtual in Time. 4. Virtuality and the Laws of Physics. Appendix: Deleuze's Words. Notes; Index
Manuel Delanda (1952-) began his career in experimental film, became a computer artist and programmer and now teaches philosophy at Columbia University. He is author of the bestselling books, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines and A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History.
'...Manuel DeLanda's Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy ...an
exceptionally wrought and detailed investigation of Deleuze's
philosophy in relation to contemporary debates in science,
including the 'new science' of complexity theory...exceptional.
DeLanda is and has been for many years one of the best explicators
of Deleuze...his skill in this area is very much in evidence in his
most recent book.--Sanford Lakoff "Immanence "
'[A] highly original...book...The structure of the book is simple,
with four chapters devoted to mathematics, space, time, and
physics, respectively. Quarrels over Deleuzian terminology are
banished to a very helpful appendix...DeLanda has certainly
rendered this territory more palpable to the analytically
oriented.' Leslie Dema, University of Guelph, Canada, Journal of
The European Legacy, (Vol 11, No. 6)
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