Intensive science and virtual philosophy

First published 10 years ago, Manuel DeLanda's Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy rapidly established itself as a landmark text in contemporary continental thought. DeLanda here draws on the realist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to the domain of philosophy of science. As well as contemporary philosophical insights, the book also tackles new developments in geometry, complexity theory and chaos theory to bring new insights to our understanding of a scientific knowledge liberated from traditional ideas of essence. Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, this edition includes a new preface by Delanda, revisiting the themes of his book ten years on. Cover 1 HalfTitle 2 Series 3 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Dedication 7 Preface: Ten Years After 8 Introduction: Deleuze’s World 12 Chapter 1 The Mathematics of the Virtual: Manifolds, Vector Fields and Transformation Groups 20 Notes 54 Chapter 2 The Actualization of the Virtual in Space 68 Notes 102 Chapter 3 The Actualization of the Virtual in Time 116 Notes 149 Chapter 4 Virtuality and the Laws of Physics 166 Notes 203 Appendix: Deleuze’s Words 216 The ontological list 217 A Thousand Plateaus 223 Anti-Oedipus 227 What Is Philosophy? 230 Index 240