Intensive Science & Virtual Philosophy
by Manuel De Landa · first published 2005
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Deleuze is now regarded as the most radical and influential of contemporary philosophers. HereManuel DeLanda makes sense of Deleuze for bothanalytic and continental thought, for both science and philosophy.
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I recommend Manuel de Landa (stylizes his name to Delanda these days), particularly “Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy” if your flavor is Anglo style analytical philosophy. The relevant Deleuze texts (A Thousand Plateaus) can be infuriating if you’re not open to this whole other style of thinking, but Deleuze is no postmodern,…
on “Data-oriented design or why you might shoot yourself in the foot with OOP (2009)” ↗Manuel DeLanda - Intensive Science & Virtual Philosophy http://www.amazon.com/Intensive-Science-Virtual-Philosophy-C...
on “Ask HN: What books have changed the way you think? ” ↗…https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83650.War_in_the_Age_of_... Delanda was very interesting in the beginning but didn't quite find or found his community and began talking in an echo chamber that impoverished his thought. Still, "War...", "Intensive science and virtual philosophy" and "A thousand years of nonlinear history" are respectively a very promising start, an impressive peak and an early mature book. Too bad I can't recommend anything from "Philosophy and simulation" forward.
on “NSA Official: We Need to Prepare for the Future of War” ↗…particles which reveal the boson, we are briefly seeing what happens when we have put them back together. See my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21039542 A very good primer on this is "Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy" by Manuel DeLanda.
on “5D chess game where pieces time travel” ↗