Manuel Delanda was born in 1952 in Mexico City and has lived in Manhattan since 1975. He is author of the book War in the Age of Intelligent Machines and Phylum: a Thousand years on Nonlinear History.

He was a filmmaker and computer programmer before becoming a computer artist and writer. He has written extensively for publications by the Santa Fe Institute on Complexity and Non-linear Systems, and contributed to numerous collections, including A Thousand Plateaus' by G. Deleuze and F. Guattari, Ecological Imperialism by Alfred Crosby and Self-Organizing Systems, edited by Eugene Yates.

Manuel De Landa can be reached at:
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