A thousand years of nonlinear history

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1. thanatropismSep 2019
   Cf. Manuel de Landa, "War in the age of intelligent machines".

   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83650.War_in_the_Age_of_...

   Delanda was very interesting in the beginning but didn't quite find or found his community and began talking in an echo chamber that impoverished his thought. Still, "War...", "Intensive science and virtual philosophy" and "A thousand years of nonlinear history" are respectively a very promising start, an impressive peak and an early mature book. Too bad I can't recommend anything from "Philosophy and simulation" forward.

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2. whoisstanSep 2018
   1. - 5. "A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History" by Manuel De Landa

   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88941.A_Thousand_Years_o...

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3. turbojerrySep 2012
   Turing's Cathedral

   Darwin Among the Machines

   Technomanifestos

   Possiplex

   What Technology Wants

   A couple of not computer related, but quite interesting books-

   The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

   A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

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4. msutherlJun 2012
   Oh, I forgot to add that probably my favorite "post-structuralist" author is Manuel DeLanda, who actually quit his job as a hacker to become a philosopher. He does a great job of making Deleuze's work more clear and his own work is fascinating: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D...

   "A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History" looks at the past thousand years in terms of the kinds of material processes that occurred (at all levels from geological to political) with reference to theories from dynamics. DeLanda generally continues the project that Deleuze started of taking insight from modern science and applying it to philosophical problems.

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5. turbojerryJul 2011
   I would say the most important thing is to stimulate your thinking in different ways, here are a few books that might help in that regard-

   Technomanifestos: Visions from the Information Revolutionaries by Adam Brate

   Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

   A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History by Manuel De Landa

   Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes edited by Roy Christopher

   I would also recommend reading the works of Ted Nelson and Buckminster Fuller, as well as some fiction by Neal Stephenson, Robert Anton Wilson and other SF authors.

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