Tom's review
A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
by Manuel DeLanda
Tom's review
A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History by Manuel DeLanda
Tom's review
rating:
recommended for: some people
Well, this website will be cool if we use it. So, here I go before petering off completely.
*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 his books now, which I am going to get to soon.
This book is pretty slow going for me; I've been working on it for about 3 months in between other things. It's fascinating way to approach human history for the last 1,000 years. I don't know if I can do it justice, but he looks at the whole planet as a dynamic, non-linear system, self arranging into "mesh-works" and "hierarchies". Such a totally different way of looking at a subject we're all familiar with (human history) is very inspiring (inspiring in the "this is giving me lots of new ideas" way. Not the "I'm going to soar with eagles" kind of way. Though looking at humans as a temporary repository for ...more
*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 his books now, which I am going to get to soon.
This book is pretty slow going for me; I've been working on it for about 3 months in between other things. It's fascinating way to approach human history for the last 1,000 years. I don't know if I can do it justice, but he looks at the whole planet as a dynamic, non-linear system, self arranging into "mesh-works" and "hierarchies". Such a totally different way of looking at a subject we're all familiar with (human history) is very inspiring (inspiring in the "this is giving me lots of new ideas" way. Not the "I'm going to soar with eagles" kind of way. Though looking at humans as a temporary repository for ...more
