“A remarkable book on a truly fascinating concept, the fold, implicate order, cosmology, soul or belonging-together, that addresses how we can understand the connectedness of what is and will become, and represent, create-and enjoy-this immersion in relations that link everything to every other thing. This is a book that identifies politics, subjectivity, and human life as some among the many folds of a universe of ever-expanding orders of entwinement.” - Elizabeth Grosz, author of (The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism) “In <i>The Fold</i> Laura U. Marks offers a radical new way of understanding aesthetics and our affective encounter with the world. Through her unique and inspiring voice and the evolution of her larger intellectual project over the decades, she takes readers to a different place from which to reconceive their quotidian engagement with art and life more broadly. This paradigm-shifting work will be a touchstone book for the field.” - David Martin-Jones, author of (Cinema Against Doublethink: Ethical Encounters with the Lost Pasts of World History) "Her ideas do grapple across schools, but also geographic locations, time zones, intangible and tangible things that exist, and maybe even some that don’t exist. Corporeal realities, animal realities. Across disciplines, across minds. It’s a refreshing look at what a collection of ideas through one academic lens can look like, and how we can and should appreciate it."<br /> - Thomas Girard (British Columbia Review)
1. Living in a Folded Cosmos 1
2. Soul-Assemblages 38
3. Enfolding-Unfolding Aesthetics: A Triadic Model of the Cosmos 78
4. The Information Fold 99
5. Training Perception and Affection 144
6. The Feelings of Fabulation 164
7. Monad, Database, Remix: Manners of Unfolding in The Last Angel of History 194
8. The Monad Next Door 220
Conclusion: Recognizing Other Edges 243
Notes 253
Bibliography 281
Index 307