Manuel de Landa (Mexico City, 1952) Mexican writer, artist and philosopher based in New York who has a very varied and exceptional multidisciplinary work. He has written extensively about non-linear dynamics, theories of self-organization, life and artificial intelligence (A.I), chaos theory, architecture and the history of science. Currently, de Landa is a professor at the Graduate School of Columbia University in New York in the area of architecture and holds the Gilles Deleuze Chair at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He moved to New York in 1975 where he became a film director. In 1980 he became interested in computer science, was a pioneer programmer and made art with the computer, when he stands out as one of the most outstanding theorists in the field of cybernetics.