{"title":"Manuel De Landa","description":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the Manuel De Landa collection, where you can explore the thought-provoking works of one of the most innovative thinkers in history and philosophy. De Landa, a Mexican-American philosopher, blends history, science, and complexity theory to offer unique perspectives on the development of human societies and the forces shaping our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmong his seminal works, \u003cem\u003eA Thousand Years of Nonlinear History\u003c\/em\u003e stands out as a profound exploration of history viewed through the lens of material processes and complexity theory. In this captivating book, De Landa challenges traditional historical narratives by focusing on the interplay between physical, biological, and social forces over the past millennium.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhether you are a history enthusiast or a curious mind eager to understand the underlying dynamics that have shaped human civilisation, the books in this collection promise to enrich your perspective. Immerse yourself in De Landa's masterful analysis and gain insights into the nonlinear forces that mould our past, present, and future.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-thousand-years-of-nonlinear-history-by-manuel-de-landa-9780942299328","title":"A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing in the wake of \u003cem\u003eWar in the Age of Intelligent Machines\u003c\/em\u003e, Manuel De Landa presents a synthesis of historical development over the last one thousand years. The work sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari, while also engaging the critical new understanding of material processes derived from the sciences of dynamics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWorking 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. The result is a study of human societies and their mobile, semistable forms: cities, economies, technologies, and languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDe Landa attacks three domains that have given shape to human societies: economics, biology, and linguistics. In every case, one sees 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 free of any deterministic source of its urban, institutional, and technological forms. Rather, the source of all concrete forms in the West's history is shown to derive from internal morphogenetic capabilities that lie within the flow of matter-energy itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000545493228,"sku":"9780942299328","price":80.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13345113482523.jpg?v=1763283478"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/manuel-de-landa.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}