Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781478025856 |
| ISBN10: | 1478025859 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 344 pages |
| Size: | 229x152 mm |
| Weight: | 572 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 60 illustrations, including 8 in color |
| 700 |
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The Fold
From Your Body to the Cosmos
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date of Publication: 31 May 2024
Number of Volumes: Cloth over boards
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Short description:
Laura U. Marks offers a practical philosophy and aesthetic theory for living in and apprehending a cosmos in which every being and every thing is infinitely connected.
Long description:
In The Fold, Laura U. Marks offers a practical philosophy and aesthetic theory for living in an infinitely connected cosmos. Drawing on the theories of Leibniz, Glissant, Deleuze, and theoretical physicist David Bohm—who each conceive of the universe as being folded in on itself in myriad ways—Marks contends that the folds of the cosmos are entirely constituted of living beings. From humans to sandwiches to software to stars, every entity is alive and occupies its own private enclosure inside the cosmos. Through analyses of fiction, documentary and experimental movies, interactive media, and everyday situations, Marks outlines embodied methods for detecting and augmenting the connections between each living entity and the cosmos. She shows that by affectively mediating with the ever-shifting folded relations within the cosmos, it is possible to build “soul-assemblages” that challenge information capitalism, colonialism, and other power structures and develop new connections with the infinite. With this guide for living within the enfolded and unfolding cosmos, Marks teaches readers to richly apprehend the world and to trace the processes of becoming that are immanent within the fold.
“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.”
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments vii
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
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
