Manuel DeLanda

And so there's a sense in which this first table cannot account for the emergence of things over and above their ultimate components.

And as Manuel de Landa has shown in his book, A New Philosophy of Society, a lot of times there are objects that can create their own parts or can replace their own parts.

An example would be the city of Stockholm.

I don't think it's ridiculous to say that in some sense this is the same city as the city of Gustavus Adolphus.

And so there's a sense in which this first table cannot account for the emergence of things over and above their ultimate components.

And as Manuel de Landa has shown in his book, A New Philosophy of Society, a lot of times there are objects that can create their own parts or can replace their own parts.

An example would be the city of Stockholm.

I don't think it's ridiculous to say that in some sense this is the same city as the city of Gustavus Adolphus.