★★★★★"Anyone interested on Deleuze's philosophy can find in this book a good account of his philosophy, but applied to an special domain of knowledge: history. It will be of no help if what you look for is a clear account of Deleuze's philosophy. It is a good example of how Deleuze's ideas are taken into a special domain of knowledge."

★★★★★"A unespected and magnificent view on History. Wow. Made me rethink and re organize my brain."

★A philosophical masterpiece in interdisciplinary fields.
★Written by Manuel De Landa, a Mexican American writer, artist, and philosopher, who is known as one of the "most original thinkers of today".
★The translation copyright has been sold to Croatia, Greece, Spain and Turkey!
★A comprehensive and exciting non-linear analysis of the historical development of the past thousand years, emphasizing the powerful role of matter and energy in the process of historical development.
★Using relevant knowledge of geology, biology, and linguistics, De Landa conducted a radical "archaeological" experiment.

More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari, while also engaging the critical new understanding of material processes derived from the sciences of dynamics.

Following in the wake of his groundbreaking War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a radical synthesis of historical development over the last one thousand years. More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari, while also engaging the critical new understanding of material processes derived from the sciences of dynamics. Working against prevailing attitudes that see history as an arena of texts, discourses, ideologies, and metaphors, De Landa traces the concrete movements and interplays of matter and energy through human populations in the last millennium. De Landa attacks three domains that have given shape to human societies: economics, biology, and linguistics. In every case, what one sees is the self-directed processes of matter and energy interacting with the whim and will of human history itself to form a panoramic vision of the West free of rigid teleology and naive notions of progress, and even more important, free of any deterministic source of its urban, institutional, and technological forms. Rather, the source of all concrete forms in the West's history are shown to derive from internal morphogenetic capabilities that lie within the flow of matter-energy itself.

Manuel DeLanda
A Mexican-American writer, artist and philosopher who has lived in New York since 1975. He is a lecturer in architecture at the Princeton University School of Architecture and the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, where he teaches courses on the philosophy of urban history and the dynamics of cities as historical actors with an emphasis on the importance of self-organization and material culture in the understanding of a city. DeLanda also teaches architectural theory as an adjunct professor of architecture and urban design at the Pratt Institute and serves as the Gilles Deleuze Chair and Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School.He holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (1979) and a PhD in media and communication from the European Graduate School (2010).

DeLanda was previously a visiting professor at the University of Southern California School of Architecture, where he taught an intensive two-week course in the spring 2012 term on self-organization and urbanity; adjunct associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation from 1995 to 2006; and adjunct professor at Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.

DeLanda's notable works include War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1991), A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (1997), Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (2002) and A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity (2006). He has published many articles and essays and lectured extensively in Europe and in the United States. His work focuses on the theories of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari on one hand,and modern science, self-organizing matter, artificial life and intelligence, economics, architecture, chaos theory, history of science, nonlinear dynamics, cellular automata on the other. His 2015 book Philosophical Chemistry: Genealogy of a Scientific Field furthers his intervention in the philosophy of science and science studies.

Introduction

Ⅰ: LAVAS AND MAGMAS
Geological History: 1000-1700 A.D.
Sandstone and Granite
Geological History: 1700-2000 A.D.

Ⅱ: FLESH AND GENES
Biological History: 1000-1700 A.D.
Species and Ecosystems
Biological History: 1700 2000 A.D.

Ⅲ: MEMES AND NORMS
Linguistic History: 1000-1700 A.D.
Arguments and Operators
Linguistic History: 1700- 2000 A.D.

Conclusion and Speculations
Notes