Manuel DeLanda began his career in experimental film, later became a computer artist and programmer and is now Adjunct Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, USA. He is the author of the bestselling books War in the Age of Intelligent Machines and A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History and of Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy, also published by Continuum.

• Introduction; 1. Assemblages Against Totalities; 2. Assemblages Against Essences; 3. Persons and Networks; 4. Organisations and Governments; 5. Cities and Nations.

Manuel DeLanda began his career in experimental film, later became a computer artist and programmer and is now Adjunct Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, USA. He is the author of the bestselling books War in the Age of Intelligent Machines and A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History and of Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy, also published by Continuum.

• Introduction; 1. Assemblages Against Totalities; 2. Assemblages Against Essences; 3. Persons and Networks; 4. Organisations and Governments; 5. Cities and Nations.