false 88941 1 Following in the wake of his groundbreaking <i>War in the Age of Intelligent Machines</i>, Manuel De Landa presents a radical synthesis of historical development over the last one thousand years. More than a simple expository history, <i>A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History</i> sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix 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.<br /> <br /> De Landa attacks three domains that have given shape to human societies: economics, biology, and linguistics. In every case, what one sees is the self-directed processes of matter and energy interacting with the whim and will of human history itself to form a panoramic vision of the West free of rigid teleology and naive notions of progress, and even more important, free of any deterministic source of its urban, institutional, and technological forms. Rather, the source of all concrete forms in the West's history are shown to derive from internal morphogenetic capabilities that lie within the flow of matter-energy itself. 85835 18 9 2000 A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History total:135|5:57|4:60|3:14|2:4|1:0| 135 575 282 25 4 1 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 18 19:13:57 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 19:20:44 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Jun 28 16:33:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 28 16:33:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Feb 10 12:37:31 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 14 07:24:41 -0800 2008
*Note. I've finished this book, finally. Turns out he's interested in a french philospher named Delueze. That's what I get for missing the last 100 yrs of philosophy. A good book. I have another of...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 17:32:59 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 09:53:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 00:28:46 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 20:32:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Mar 13 01:53:35 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 13 02:44:39 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 26 16:17:49 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 16:21:06 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Apr 28 23:32:53 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 16 20:24:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 04 21:35:02 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 21:37:09 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 11 08:43:28 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 11 09:05:43 -0700 2007 more interesting for the way it's organized than the histories it's documenting, though those are sometimes fascinating too.
delanda shows the links connecting biological, geological, economic, and ling...more...]]> 4 0 true false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 03 07:41:38 -0700 2007 Sat Dec 06 19:27:49 -0800 2008 A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, Manuel De Landa examines the history of the past thousand years, 1000 A.D. to 2000 A.D., with a definite slant towards a Eurocentric point of view. De Landa also uses a chronological linear time flow throughout the text. As he states in the introduction, h...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 29 06:27:26 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 06:30:19 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Mar 28 18:51:15 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 18:58:27 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 23 10:06:33 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 23 10:09:19 -0800 2007 0 0 false false Wed Nov 05 14:19:17 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 05 14:20:52 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Jul 13 12:08:33 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 12:09:12 -0700 2008 ]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 29 07:51:13 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 23 15:17:58 -0800 2007 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Mar 14 11:00:45 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 14 11:04:34 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Thu Jan 22 00:14:29 -0800 2009 Tue Apr 08 18:25:11 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 22 00:14:29 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 13:51:43 -0800 2009 Sat Oct 18 06:50:40 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 01 13:51:43 -0800 2009