Philosopher
Manuel DeLanda
Overview
Manuel DeLanda (born 1952) is a Mexican-American writer, artist and philosopher who has lived in New York City since 1975. He is a lecturer in architecture at the Princeton University School of Architecture and the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, where he teaches courses on the philosophy of urban history and the dynamics of cities as historical actors with an emphasis on the importance of self-organization and material culture in the understanding of a city. DeLanda also teaches architectural theory as an adjunct professor of architecture and urban design at the Pratt Institute and serves as the Gilles Deleuze Chair and Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School. He holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (1979) and a PhD in media and communication from the European Graduate School (2010).
DeLanda was previously a visiting professor at the University of Southern California School of Architecture, where he taught an intensive two-week course in the spring 2012 term on self-organization and urbanity; adjunct associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation from 1995 to 2006; and adjunct professor at Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.
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Philosophers who discussed Manuel DeLanda
Ideas Manuel DeLanda discusses
- Film theory
- Artificial intelligence
- Gilles Deleuze
- History of science
- Jacques Lacan
- Materialism
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Architecture
- Jean Baudrillard
- Science
- Self-organization
- Continental philosophy
- Artificial life
- Philosophy of science
- Architectural theory
- Critical theory
- Chaos theory
- Columbia University
- Economics
- Science studies
Place in the tradition
Part of Materialism.