Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy

Manuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist and philosopher. He began his career in experimental film, later becoming a computer artist and programmer. He is now Professor of Philosophy in the Architecture departments at the University of Pennsylvania, and Gilles Deleuze Chair and Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School.

'[A] highly original...book...The structure of the book is simple, with four chapters devoted to mathematics, space, time, and physics, respectively. Quarrels over Deleuzian terminology are banished to a very helpful appendix...DeLanda has certainly rendered this territory more palpable to the analytically oriented.' Leslie Dema, University of Guelph, Canada, Journal of The European Legacy, (Vol 11, No. 6)

• Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy Introduction: Deleuze's World 1. The Mathematics of Virtual Philosophy: Manifolds, Vector Fields and Transformation Groups 2. The Actualization of the Virtual in Space 3. The Actualization of the Virtual in Time 4. Virtuality and the Laws of Physics Appendix: Deleuze's Words Index