Manuel Delanda, "Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture"

"Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture", Speaker: Manuel Delanda, Date: April 9, 2004, Art and Technology Lecture Series

[@fckusoogle875]

In this lecture De Landa talks about morphogenesis in relation to evolutionary biology. He notes that the topological potential of bones in chordata are constrained by what identifies us as vertebrates - bones and their connections, and how they connect, but not their length or shape. There is a large search space in which bones develop their form. It reminded me of a thing I read, about the connection between the number of fingers we have and our reproductive abilities - the two are genetically interrelated so that mutation to the hands, such as any significant change in number or placement of fingers or joints for example, can create infertility. Though slow, gradual changes are possible, and thus a hand and arm can be become a bird wing or fin or leg and hoof, yet, despite what can be radical transformations in appearance and function, the basic topological structure remains the same and we can distinguish the adapted fingers and joints that correlate to our own arms and hands and which are derived from the ancestral five digit hand. This is a boundary of the search space that defines vertebrates. I wonder what features of insects are bound to their reproduction?

[@YKTurner1]

Absolutely amazing orator and a truly evolutionary process of thinking into the organised abstract if that's possible.

[@MartinThau]

"It might be imagined that some propositions, of the form of empirical propositions, were hardened and functioned as channels for such empirical propositions as were not hardened but fluid; and that this relation altered with time, in that fluid propositions hardened, and hard ones became fluid. The mythology may change back into a state of flux; the riverbed of thoughts may shift. But I distinguish between the movements of the waters on the riverbed and the shift of the bed itself; though there is not a sharp division of the one from the other." WITTGENSTEIN

[@danielfineman2851]

Please watch Deleuze's own lectures on line. Deleuze was a very careful -- even punctilious - academic, and this is often obscured by his inventiveness and originality.

[@blackmetalmagick1]

Links?

[@ecemarslanay9045]

links?

[@remotefaith]

LINKS?

[@prettypenny112]

LINKS??????

[@henkaipan8]

links?

[@YKTurner1]

Absolutely amazing!

[@Audioventura]

I find this distinction materialism vs. postmodern philosophy a bit inadequate - anyone who has read suveriller et punir cannot ignore the fact that Foucault is in some sense also a materialist - the fact that we cannot but perceive the world in the form of language does not necessarily mean that it wouldn't exist without us. There are two very different type of objects here - the world we can explore, a sematic entitiy and the world as object outside language, a thing we will never grasp.

[@maxmidgett5046]

Moreover I think constructivism is the only epistemology consistent with materialism. If matter is all that fundamentally exists, you have to accept that information, categories, essences, etc. are derived from matter by consciousness and imposed back on reality in the act of structuring our perception.

[@manolitosanchez]

When he was talking about phase transitions and epidemics I had to confirm that the video was pre-COVID…

[@masbbo]

DeLanda my mayne, you ain't breakin it down so good brother. "Deleuze never said a word about phenomenology" The dude was all about moving passed phenomenology, he was all over it.

[@January-pt6ci]

my new favorite human

[@koredeaderele1666]

p rigid title but the actual content of this talk is super rich

[@keleniengaluafe2600]

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[@Krelianx]

Please enlighten me, because I don't know of a single post-modern philosopher who does not, in principle, object agains the traditional Cartesian substantialist notion of the subject. So where is the idealism?

[@dannysze8183]

reinhold knows deleuze more than delanda. both are great teachers.

[@cloakedup]

his ponytail is more convincing

[@DMStarFlash]

finally, a video without any dislikes!! =)

[@andrewwelch5]

Mr Delanda?

[@Krelianx]

@gen6k Correlationism is not idealism.

[@konratw]

Then read "History of Sexuality". It is hard to say what Foucault wanted to say (though Deleuze conceived of him as materialist), therefore you have Foucault studies all around the world .

[@ercd07]

Manuel Delanda mentions that a genetic algorithm could be applied by only using the computer. I think computers are one of several mediums and/or dimensions in which we could applied and genetic algorithm. Think about nature, it does evolve and if we simple mimic with a math algorithm a structure from nature we could create a GA with the hand and paper... Computer is a tool of many possible ones... I would say computers open up a wide range of possible dimensions and/or worlds...

[@masbbo]

So the intro to Deleuze is whack, but the lecture its self is becoming.

[@zenlikethat]

Semantics

[@Krelianx]

This is rather pathetic. To call post-modern philosophy 'idealist', an to put phenomenology in the same bag, is a gross simplification. This is not serious, or rigorous.

[@scholar1972]

His argument is weak, because Wittgenstein in Philosophical Investigation and TLC shows their language is a necessary condition for communication in any form of human and non-human communication.

[@scholar1972]

He does not know about Knot theory in pure mathematics

[@lupo-femme]

@Sebo Kron He's not, he's using examples that can have various applications. OP is a loser.

[@SnatchAx]

this is some serious bullshit