Manuel DeLanda
Manuel DeLanda (born 1952) is a Mexican-American writer, artist and philosopher who has lived in New York City since 1975. He is a lecturer in architecture at the Princeton University School of Architecture and the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, where he teaches courses on the philosophy of urban history and the dynamics of cities as historical actors with an emphasis on the importance of self-organization and material culture in the understanding of a city. DeLanda also teaches architectural theory as an adjunct professor of architecture and urban design at the Pratt Institute and serves as the Gilles Deleuze Chair and Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School.[3][4] He holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (1979) and a PhD in media and communication from the European Graduate School (2010).
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- Name
- Manuel DeLanda
- Born
- 1952
- Birthplace
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Education
- School of Visual Arts (BFA) European Graduate School (PhD)
- Nationality
- United States · Mexico
- Occupation
- philosopher · university teacher · writer · computer scientist · film director · artist · programmer
- Movements
- materialism
- Languages
- Spanish
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Manuel DeLanda (born 1952) is a Mexican-American writer, artist and philosopher who has lived in New York City since 1975. He is a lecturer in architecture at the Princeton University School of Architecture and the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, where he teaches courses on the philosophy of urban history and the dynamics of cities as historical actors with an emphasis on the importance of self-organization and material culture in the understanding of a city. DeLanda also teaches architectural theory as an adjunct professor of architecture and urban design at the Pratt Institute and serves as the Gilles Deleuze Chair and Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School.[3][4] He holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (1979) and a PhD in media and communication from the European Graduate School (2010).
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DeLanda was previously a visiting professor at the University of Southern California School of Architecture, where he taught an intensive two-week course in the spring 2012 term on self-organization and urbanity; adjunct associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation from 1995 to 2006; and adjunct professor at Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.[7][8]
Manuel DeLanda studied at School of Visual Arts. The recorded working language is Spanish. Fernand Braudel and Gilles Deleuze are recorded as an influence. Places of work recorded in the authority are New York City. Employment is recorded with European Graduate School and Columbia University. Work by Manuel DeLanda is recorded in the collections of ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.
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• Region — Western philosophy • Era — Contemporary philosophy • Name — Manuel DeLanda • Born — 1952 • Birthplace — Mexico City, Mexico • School Tradition — Continental philosophy Speculative realism[1] New materialism[2] • Main Interests — Philosophy of science • Education — School of Visual Arts (BFA) European Graduate School (PhD) • Institutions — European Graduate School Princeton University Pratt Institute University of Pennsylvania Columbia University • Notable Ideas — Assemblage theory
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1952
Manuel DeLanda born at Mexico City.
2010
Cooperación Virtual. Entrevista con Manuel DeLanda (2010) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
Philosophical work
DeLanda's notable works include 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 philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari on one hand, and modern science, self-organizing matter, artificial life and intelligence, economics, architecture, chaos theory, history of science, nonlinear dynamics, cellular automata on the other. His 2015 book Philosophical Chemistry: Genealogy of a Scientific Field furthers his intervention in the philosophy of science and science studies.
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Films
After moving to New York, DeLanda created several experimental films between 1975 and 1982, some as part of an undergraduate coursework at the School of Visual Arts. While at SVA, DeLanda studied under video artist Joan Braderman; they were subsequently married in 1980 and collaborated on several works (including Braderman's Joan Does Dynasty [1986], DeLanda's Raw Nerves [1980] and Ismism [1979]) before divorcing at an indeterminate point. Influenced by the No Wave movement, DeLanda's Super 8 and 16mm films also served as methodical, theory-based approaches to the form.[11] He pulled them from circulation after the original negatives were lost; in 2011, Anthology Film Archives restored and reissued them. Cited by filmmaker Nick Zedd in his Cinema of Transgression Manifesto, DeLanda associated with many of the experimental filmmakers of this New York based-movement. In 2010, he appeared in Céline Danhier's retrospective documentary Blank City.[12] Much of his oeuvre was inspired by his nascent interest in continental philosophy and critical theory; one of his best known films is Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller (1980). Having moved on to the nondeterministic synthesis of Baudrillardian and Deleuzian theory, command and control techniques, and materialistic concerns of complex systems and artificial life (including cellular automata) that would comprise "Policing the Spectrum" (1986) and War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1992), DeLanda had largely eschewed by the mid-1980s his interests in "post-Freudian ideas of the unconscious... as well as any interest in film theory."
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- 1.Bryant, Levi; Harman, Graham; Srnicek, Nick. The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism. re.press. 381. 2011. 978-0-9806683-4-6.
- 2.Dolphijn, Rick. New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies. Open Humanities Press. 1 January 2013. 9781607852810.
- 3.Manuel DeLanda - the European Graduate School.
- 4.Pratt.edu. Pratt Institute.
- 5.Manuel De Landa. Graduate Architecture | PennDesign. Design.upenn.edu.
- 6.Manuel DeLanda | Princeton University School of Architecture.
- 7.Posted By: Delanda. Manuel DeLanda | Princeton University School of Architecture. Soa.princeton.edu.
- 8.University of Southern California. Manuel De Landa Lecture Series. PARAsite - parametric and algorithmic research in architecture. 2013-04-06.
- 9.Pratt.edu. Pratt Institute.
- 10.Columbia University. "SIMULATIONS IN MUSIC:" An Open Lecture by Manuel De Landa (Feb 9th, 2012). Department of Music.
- 11.Ed Halter: "Abstract Machines. Nonlinear dynamics and the films of Manuel DeLanda", Museum of the Moving Image, March 4, 2011
- 12.IMDb title 1398949 Blank City (2010)
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Formation and teaching. DeLanda studied at School of Visual Arts. His recorded influences include Fernand Braudel and Gilles Deleuze. His work is associated with materialism. He was employed by European Graduate School and Columbia University. He worked at New York City. Recorded as philosopher, university teacher, writer, computer scientist and film director. Holdings and surviving copies.
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