ISBN:
9781478030119
,
9781478025856
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 334 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Marks, Laura U., 1963 - The Fold
Keywords:
Aesthetics Philosophy
;
Cosmology Philosophy
;
Cosmology in art
;
Philosophy
;
Art and philosophy
;
PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Abstract:
"The Fold is a book of practical philosophy that takes a radical new approach to aesthetics. Laura U. Marks calls this philosophy "enfolding-unfolding aesthetics," based in ideas derived from Gilles Deleuze and others (G.F.W. Leibniz, David Bohm, and Édouard Glissant) that the universe is folded in on itself. She proposes a theory of mediation as contact and connection across the folds and a set of embodied methods for detecting such cosmic connections. In drawing out this aesthetics, Marks considers the embodied and sensuous dimensions of engaging with audiovisual works and works of art-dimensions that Marks suggests are composed of the very folds that compose everything and everyone: all living beings, from humans to particles, sandwiches to stars, technologies, thoughts and images, in the present, the past, and the future. Making use of art and film, with a focus on African diaspora and Arab cinema, Marks opens ways to strengthen connections to the cosmos and to better trace processes of becoming that are immanent within the fold"--
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