New Philosophy of Society : Assemblage Theory And Social Complexity, Paperback by De Landa, Manuel, ISBN 0826491693, ISBN-13 9780826491695, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US DeLanda (architecture, planning, and preservation Columbia U.) offers a realist social ontology, acknowledging right at the start that he must thereby assert the autonomy of social entities from the conceptions people have of them, even the very people without whose minds the entities would not exist. The theory of assemblages created by Gilles Deleuze in the waning decades of the 20th century provides an anchor. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()