I remember a screening in the mid 1990s where De Landa was showing
his film "Raw Nerves". He spent so long describing how the film was
exemplary of various Deleuzean concepts that there was no time left
to show my own film. I should have phase transitioned his arse off
the stage.
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Date: 6 March 2011 13:14:10 GMT
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Subject: [NetBehaviour] Abstract Machines: Nonlinear dynamics and
the films of Manuel DeLanda.
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Abstract Machines: Nonlinear dynamics and the films of Manuel DeLanda.
By Ed Halter.
One of the ideas that philosopher Manuel DeLanda frequently returns
to is that of phase transitions, a term from thermodynamics for
“events which take place at critical values of some parameter
(temperature, for example), switching a physical system from one
state to another, like the critical points of temperature at which
water changes from ice to liquid, or from liquid to steam,” as he
writes in Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (2002). Phase
transitions are a central concept of his best-known book, A
Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (1997), in which he attempts to
rethink typical narratives of human development in favor of the
dynamic shifts from one structural form to another: imagine nomadic
societies flowing like liquid, for example, then crystallizing into
cities, only to atomize into diaspora under pressure. In Deleuze:
History and Science (2010), he evokes the related mathematical
concept of phase space, a way to picture all the potential states a
system might undergo. “This set of states,” he writes, “may be
represented as a space of possibilities with as many dimensions as
the system has degrees of freedom.”
http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/abstract-machines-20110304
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