A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
De Landa, Manuel
ISBN: | 9780942299311 |
Publisher: | MIT Press |
Published: | 16 January, 1998 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
De Landa, Manuel
Following in the wake of War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a synthesis of historical development over the last one thousand years. The work sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari, while also engaging the critical new understanding of material processes derived from the sciences of dynamics. Working against prevailing attitudes that see history as an 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 a study of human societies and their mobile, semistable forms: cities, economies, technologies, and languages.
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