The Fold

From Your Body to the Cosmos

Laura U. Marks (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

344 Seiten

2024
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2585-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Laura U. Marks is Grant Strate University Professor at Simon Fraser University and author of The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses, also published by Duke University Press, and Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image, among other books.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	12.03.2024
Zusatzinfo	60 illustrations, including 8 in color
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	572 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4780-2585-9 / 1478025859
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-2585-6 / 9781478025856
Zustand	Neuware