Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Preface: Ten Years After; Introduction: Deleuze's World; Chapter 1 The Mathematics of the Virtual: Manifolds, Vector Fields and Transformation Groups; Notes; Chapter 2 The Actualization of the Virtual in Space; Notes; Chapter 3 The Actualization of the Virtual in Time; Notes; Chapter 4 Virtuality and the Laws of Physics; Notes; Appendix: Deleuze's Words; The ontological list; A Thousand Plateaus; Anti-Oedipus; What Is Philosophy?; Index.
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.