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Title: A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History by Manuel DeLanda, Manuel De Landa ISBN: 0-942299-32-9 Publisher: Zone Books Pub. Date: 18 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: T.S. Kuhn would have been pleased.
Comment: Application of non-linearity to problems in the Natural (hard) Sciences is not a new concept, and it has long been known that the omission of these terms is what prevents most models from aquiring the complexity we see in real life. De Landa chronicles the development in this area as applied to Biology, a couple of branches in Physics and the Social Sciences, and links all his subjects in such an extraordinary way that the book is itself a meshwork, in the purest sense of Deleuze and Guattari. The historical tidbits are themselves amusing and informative, and thus make the reading quite enjoyable. This is just as well an exposition of the history of nonlinearity as it is a presentation of nonlinearity as culmination of any and all ongoing natural processes.
The book's greatest strength is the presentation of unusual concepts in a strangely clear and persuasive way. In fact, if you have picked Deleuze and Guattari's books and have discarded them as pseudophilosophical bull, as I once erroneuosly did, give them a go again after De Landa; you will be surprised.
Read it, and one day you may brag that you were well aware of the conceptual revolution that shook Science as a whole as the 21st Century began, well before it was fully on its way.
Rating: 5
Summary: the echoes of a dynamic mentality.
Comment: This is a fascinating odyssey through the compelling concept of nonlinear theory. In using detailed examples De Landa performs amazing explications as to the relationship between nonlinear theory and various historical processes. His suggestion to "destratify" and "experiment" with reality are exciting views in contrast to the rampant homogeneity propagated through the seams of our society. A truly envigorating book that with patience and thought can radically reconfigure your outlook on history and any other entity that may need a tweak of nonlinearity.
Rating: 1
Summary: Gibberish
Comment: The author is trying to communicate with us, but
by using Klingon Battle Language he'd be more intelligible.
The terms and concepts in the book appear not to have
ordinary meaning, but follow a lexicon inspired by someone who had too much graduate level deconstructionism. I gave it an honest try, on recommendation of Terence McKenna and Mark
Pesce. It would seem that the author is writing for
an audience with IQs above 200, or I'm hopelessly out
of touch.
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Title: War in the Age of Intelligent Machines by Manuel DeLanda ISBN: 0942299752 Publisher: Zone Books Pub. Date: 26 December, 1991 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture by Sanford Kwinter ISBN: 0262611813 Publisher: The MIT Press Pub. Date: 09 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Brian Massumi ISBN: 0816614024 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1987 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Verb: Architecture Boogazine by Manuel De Landa, Alejandro Zaera, Jorge Wagensberg ISBN: 8495273551 Publisher: Actar Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy by Manuel Delanda ISBN: 0826456235 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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