Assemblage Theory Manuel Delanda Professor Of Contemporary Philosophy Science Manuel Delanda by Manuel Delanda & Professor Of Contemporary Philosophy & Science Manuel Delanda 9781474413633, 1474413633 instant download after payment.

For archaeologists intensively engaged in more philosophical inquiries, for example historical contingency, structuration or the generation of novel entities, the discussion here may indeed be essential reading.

-- David K. Kay and Kevin Kay, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Archaeological Review from Cambridge

Manuel DeLanda provides the first detailed overview of the assemblage theory found in germ in Deleuze and Guattari’s writings. Through a series of case studies, DeLanda shows how the concept can be applied to economic, linguistic, and military history as well as to metaphysics, science, and mathematics. DeLanda then presents the real power of assemblage theory by advancing it beyond its original formulation – allowing for the integration of communities, institutional organizations, cities and urban regions. And he challenges Marxist orthodoxy with a Leftist politics of assemblages.

Assemblage Theory, the culmination of 25 years’ work, presents for the first time in one text a unified realist ontology spanning sub-atomic physics, chemistry, biology and social history. Simultaneously DeLanda has reoriented European philosophy, and given a remarkably lucid interpretation of Deleuze and Guattari. An extraordinary achievement.

-- Alistair Welchman, University of Texas at San Antonio