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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.

“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 The Fold 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."- Thomas Girard (British Columbia Review)

• Acknowledgments  vii1. Living in a Folded Cosmos  12. Soul-Assemblages  383. Enfolding-Unfolding Aesthetics: A Triadic Model of the Cosmos  784. The Information Fold  995. Training Perception and Affection  1446. The Feelings of Fabulation  1647. Monad, Database, Remix: Manners of Unfolding in The Last Angel of History  1948. The Monad Next Door  220Conclusion: Recognizing Other Edges  243Notes  253Bibliography  281Index  307