The Liquefaction of Manuel De Landa

There is a new cosmology blowing in from the horizons of the technoscientific imagination, and it may well swallow you up. Call it the computational universe, a cosmos in which everything -- thoughts, genes, galaxies, subatomic wiggles -- is reduced to bits churning through algorithmic cascades. From artificial life to quantum physics to cognitive psychology, the computational universe has become a Major Metaphor. Everything computes; everything is code. And as N. Katherine Hayles argues in How We Became Posthuman, the...