“The very idea of massified advertising meant that large cirulation newpapers were not in the business of selling information to people but rather of selling the attention of their readers to commercial concerns... to tap into the resorvoir of resources… — Manuel De Landa Copy Share Image
We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations… — Manuel De Landa Copy Share Image
“The very idea of massified advertising meant that large cirulation newpapers were not in the business of selling information to people but rather of… — Manuel De Landa Copy Share Image
“Imperfect knowledge, incomplete assessment of feedback, limited memory and recall, as well as poor problem-solving skills result in a form of rationality that attains… — Manuel de Landa Copy Share Image
Emergent properties result from interactions between individual parts, so it follows that a top down analytical approach that begins with the whole and dissects… — Manuel De Landa Copy Share Image
But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will… — Manuel De Landa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image