Manuel DeLanda

SURVEILLANCE DOSSIER – MANUEL DELANDA Origin: Mexico/United States, since the 1990s. Primary vector: War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1991). Mexican philosopher and artist, among the first to introduce Deleuzian philosophy applied to military, economic and geological systems into Anglophone theoretical discourse. His work treats human history as a process of matter's self-organization rather than an anthropocentric narrative. Operational assessment: DeLanda supplies one of the direct bridges between Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy and the technological accelerationism later radicalized by the CCRU. His reading of military history as a laboratory for intelligent war machines anticipates themes orbiting contemporary HFT and autonomous systems. Active traces: his assemblage theory continues to be applied to economic, urban and computational systems, offering an alternative model to linear causality. Contagion level: medium, but with high capacity for grafting onto other technophilosophical vectors.