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-lrb- 2011 -rrb- contemporary philosophy mexico city , mexico continental philosophy gilles deleuze-fernand braudel mexican-american manuel delanda 1952 manuel de landa 2011.jpg manuel de landa
 western philosophy
manuel de landa

manuel delanda -lrb- born 1952 -rrb- , is a mexican-american writer , artist and philosopher who has lived in new york since 1975 .
he is a professor of contemporary philosophy and science at the european graduate school in switzerland and an adjunct lecturer in architecture at princeton university , where he teaches a seminar on cities as historical actors that emphasizes the importance of material culture in the understanding of a city .
he holds a bfa from the school of visual arts -lrb- 1979 -rrb- and a phd in media and communication from the european graduate school -lrb- 2010 -rrb- .
delanda was previously an adjunct lecturer of architecture at the university of pennsylvania school of design from 2004 to 2012 ; visiting professor at the university of southern california school of architecture , where he taught an intensive two-week course in the spring term on self-organization and urbanity ; adjunct associate professor at the columbia university graduate school of architecture , planning and preservation from 1995 to 2006 ; adjunct professor at cooper union 's irwin s. chanin school of architecture ; and adjunct professor at the pratt institute school of architecture .
