Manuel De Landa's A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History: A Synopsis and Critique
Here's a small synopsis and critique of De Landa's A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History . A quick word, though, about what De Landa means to me. It's actually been something of a great pleasure to read him again, because I think I can say, without exaggeration, that my chance stumbling upon his other book, Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy , among a random library shelf at uni one day, changed my life. I was looking for a different book, and I couldn't tell you for the life of me what it was now. I checked out Intensive Science because it looked interesting and gosh, it was nothing less than an Event for me, something after which almost everything I read now is, in some distant way or another, related to Deleuze. To return to De Landa is to return to the primal scene! Him and Levi Bryant's work on Deleuze, I should mention. With the distance of time - it's been years - I'm heartened by the fact that I can take an equal distance now, to De Landa&