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Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

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Availability:In StockContributor:Manuel De LandaSeries:Zone BooksAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2000-01-11Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Zone BooksISBN-13:9780942299328ISBN-10:942299329UPC:9780942299328Book Category:History, ScienceBook Subcategory:Historiography, World, Philosophy & Social AspectsSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCYSFG0WHN

Following in the wake of his groundbreaking work War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a brilliant, radical synthesis of historical development of the last thousand years. A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze, and F lix Guattari, while engaging -- in an entirely unprecedented manner -- the critical new understanding of material processes derived from the sciences of dynamics. Working against prevailing attitudes that see history merely as the 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. The result is an entirely novel approach to the study of human societies and their always mobile, semi-stable forms, cities, economies, technologies, and languages.

De Landa attacks three domains that have given shape to human societies: economics, biology, and linguistics. In each case, De Landa discloses 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 for its urban, institutional, and technological forms. The source of all concrete forms in the West's history, rather, is shown to derive from internal morphogenetic capabilities that lie within the flow of matter--energy itself.

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Language:EnglishPublisher:Zone BooksISBN-13:9780942299328ISBN-10:942299329UPC:9780942299328Book Category:History, ScienceBook Subcategory:Historiography, World, Philosophy & Social AspectsSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCYSFG0WHN
Publisher: Zone Books

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Manuel De Landa

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