Working against prevailing attitudes that see history as an arena of texts, discourses, ideologies, and metaphors, Manuel De Landa traces the concrete movements and interplays of matter and energy through human populations in the last millennium. The result is a novel approach to the study of human societies and their mobile and semi-stable forms--cities, economics, technologies, and languages. 10 illustrations.
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Working against prevailing attitudes that see history as an arena of texts, discourses, ideologies, and metaphors, Manuel De Landa traces the concrete movements and interplays of matter and energy through human populations in the last millennium. The result is a novel approach to the study of human societies and their mobile and semi-stable forms--cities, economics, technologies, and languages. 10 illustrations.
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