====== DeLanda, M., Emergence, Causality and Realism (2011) ======
en The Speculative Turn, Continental Materialism and Realism, Bryant, Srnicek, Harman (eds), re.press Melbourne, 2011 



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In ‘Emergence, Causality, and Realism’, Manuel DeLanda wades into debates surrounding
emergence, proposing a non-mystical account of emergent systems based on
singularities, attractors, and the virtual. Contesting the classical causal thesis that ‘one
cause implies one effect, always’, DeLanda shows how sensitivity to initial conditions,
coupled with interrelations between singularities, generate a host of non-linear phenomena
and emergent properties. As a consequence of this analysis, DeLanda proposes
an account of being that seeks to investigate the virtual dimension of phenomena or
the powers locked within objects.