MANUEL DELANDA | A COMPARISON OF DELEUZE’S ASSEMBLAGE THEORY AND THE NEW MATERIALIST APPROACH9/6/2017 Originally published on Jun 19, 2017, as video from the Assemblage Thinking Symposium 2017, at the University of the Aegean. Manuel DeLanda (born 1952), is a Mexican-American writer, artist and philosopher, who teaches courses on modern science, self-organizing matter, artificial life and intelligence, economics, architecture, chaos theory, history of science, and nonlinear dynamics. He holds a PhD in media and communication from the European Graduate School, and is the author of War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1991), A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (1997), Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (2002), A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity (2006), and much more… ABSTRACT: This lecture will discuss the fundamental concepts of the theory of assemblages, contrasting the original formulation as found in the work of Deleuze and Guattari with the version of the theory that has been developed in the new materialism. The most important difference is social ontology: whereas D&G consider only individuals, groups, and societies, the new materialist approach is based on a much more detailed break down of the components of a country: from communities and organizations, to industrial networks and government hierarchies, to cities, regions, and provinces. The article is taken from:
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