Manuel DeLanda. Materialism, Experience and Philosophy. 2008 1/12
http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel DeLanda speaking about materialism and experience, Gilles Deleuze, materialist philosophy, left and marxist movement, a world of experience, philosophy of nature, social constructivism, sociology, materialism, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida. Free public open video lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Film Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2008. Manuel De Landa.
Manuel DeLanda, (born 1952 in Mexico City), is a writer, artist and distinguished philosopher who has lived in New York since 1975. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University (New York), a Professor for Contemporary Philosophy and Science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, a professor at the Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He 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) and A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity (2006). He has published many articles and essays and lectured extensively in Europe and in the United States. His work focuses on the theories of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze on one hand, and modern science, self-organizing matter, artificial life and intelligence, economics, architecture, chaos theory, history of science, nonlinear science, cellular automata on the other. De Landa became a principal figure in the "new materialism" based on his application of Deleuze's realist ontology. His universal research into "morphogenesis" - the production of the semi-stable structures out of material flows that are constitutive of the natural and social world - has been of interest to theorists across many academic and professional disciplines.
Alongside his intellectual work, DeLanda made several short Super 8 and 16mm films in the 1970s and early 1980s, all of which are now out of circulation. Cited by filmmaker Nick Zedd in his Cinema of Transgression Manifesto, DeLanda associated with many of the experimental and art filmmakers of this New York based movement. Much of DeLanda's film work is inspired by his interest in philosophy and critical theory; one of his best known films, Raw Nerves, has been described as a 'Lacanian thriller' by at least one critic.
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eventum77 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
His example of snow - ?
The 29 words for snow is also - informing - perception, creating experience. It is a ressource carried by language, which helps the mind in perceiving even if it has been generated via raw sensation.
Sensation and sensemaking is in interaction; new words can make experience more rich; organizing attention and perception...
eventum77 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Or language is both informed by raw sensation AND a worldbuilding complex in the incredible mindspace of man via the transmission of ideas made explicit and articulate. Language is worldbuilding of 'reality' supported by the real, which also is building up and giving form and intensity to psychic life...
eventum77 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Ideas matter:
the mind has an inbuild capacity to generate new forms:
The imaginary as dimension made explicit in discourse and in organization of matter and human enviroment - and implicit in organization of desire:
culture. new imaginaries with new capacities to affirm life and its core of pure eventfullness and potentiality taking place in this or that.
kazbsmfe (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
you are missing the whole point of what he's saying (and most of what deleuze warns us against...)
run back to the narrow, dusty confines of traditional academia from where you came. "one mustn't study philosophy to appear healthy, one must study philosophy to be healthy."
StopTouchingMyFood (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Happily, real philosophy departments can't be bothered with this nonsense.
Delanda has a BFA and teaches architecture.
kazbsmfe (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
how many ways can postmodernism regurgitate nietzsche?
FuriousBataille (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
i was hoping this was more of the one clip where he says its unethical to open a wine before it has aged properly.
But this is good too!
Should go well with his piece I just read in Sound Unbound
lensherr82 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I love Manuel DeLanda. He has the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively.
anujdasgupta (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
fyi DeLanda... "eskimo" is a politically incorrect term. The word to be used is "Inuit". |
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