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War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
''War in the Age of Intelligent Machines'' (1991) is a book by Manuel DeLanda, in which he traces the history of warfare and of technology.
It is influenced in part by Michel Foucault's ''Discipline and Punish'' (1978), and also reinterprets the concepts of war machines and the machinic phylum, introduced in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's ''A Thousand Plateaus'' (1980). Deleuze and Guattari appreciated Foucault's definition of philosophy as a "tool box" that was to encourage thinking about new ideas. Thus, they themselves prepared the field for a reappropriation of their concepts, that is, a different use in another context of the "same" concept, which they also theorized under the name of "actualization". DeLanda draws on concepts these authors put forth to investigate the history of warfare and technologies.
== A social history of technology and of warfare ==
DeLanda describes how social and economic formations influence the war machine, i.e. the form of armies, in each historical period. He draws on chaos theory to show how the biosphere reaches singularities (or bifurcations) which mark self-organization thresholds where emergent properties are displayed, and claims that the "mecanosphere", constituted by the machinic phylum, possesses similar qualities. He argues for example how a certain level of population growth may induce invasions and others wars.
As a historian, DeLanda is indebted to the ''Annales School'' and the study of long-scale historical phenomena, as opposed to human-scale phenomena. The next threshold point, or singularity, to be reached, according to DeLanda, is the point where man and machine cease to oppose themselves, becoming one single war machine, and when that war machine itself is crossed by the machinic phylum. It may result in erratic war machines that become nomads because of a lack of political control. DeLanda writes:
''I defined the machinic phylum as the set of all the singularities at the onset of processes of self-organization — the critical points in the flow of matter and energy, points at which these flows spontaneously acquire a new form or pattern. All these processes, involving elements as different as molecules, cells or termites, may be represented by a few mathematical models. Thus, because one and the same singularity may be said to trigger two very different self-organizing effects, the singularity is said to be 'mechanism independent' '' (p.132)
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