(Mexico, 1952) is the author of five philosophy books, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1991), A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (1997), Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (2002), A New Philosophy of Society (2006), The Emergency of Synthetic Reason (2011). He teaches two seminars at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Architecture: Philosophy of History: Theories of Self-Organization and Urban Dynamics, and Philosophy of Science: Thinking about Structures and Materials. He also teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and holds the Gilles Deleuze chair at the European Graduate School in Switzerland.