1952
Manuel DeLanda
Mexican-American philosopher and artist, working in the Deleuzean tradition with strong interests in self-organising systems, military history, and the philosophy of science. Trained originally as an experimental filmmaker; his theoretical work began with War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1991) and expanded through A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (1997) into a broader project of applying Deleuzean concepts to historical and material systems.
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DeLanda writes from an avowedly Deleuzean position with an unusual willingness to take military and technological substance seriously on its own terms. The work is neither indictment nor advocacy; it is a philosophical reading of the co-evolution of weapons, command structures, and the categories through which warfare is conducted. The political posture is implicit and structural rather than declared.
For the chartered-violence corpus DeLanda is the relevant reference for thinking about the AI-coordinated swarming threats that postanova 1506 is responding to. War in the Age of Intelligent Machines was written before the contemporary autonomous-weapon debate was named, but its analysis of how networked command structures change the nature of strategy reads forward into the current moment with surprising fidelity.
The Deleuzean idiom is acquired rather than native — readers who haven't spent time with A Thousand Plateaus will find the vocabulary challenging in places — but DeLanda is one of the more accessible Deleuzean writers on military matters specifically.