Emergent properties result from interactions between individual parts, so it follows that a top down analytical approach that begins with the whole a…

- Manuel De Landa

Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.

- Manuel De Landa

We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but a…

- Manuel De Landa

But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and …

- Manuel De Landa