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January 9, 2011
Deleuze suggested that the central concerns of the Baroque era still survive with us (or are enjoying a resurgence) into the new media age. He stretches the baroque ‘outside of its historical limits’.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, folding, 2010
What we inherit from the Baroque is described by Deleuze as ‘the fold,’ in his book on Leibniz----The Fold Leibniz and the Baroque Deleuze focuses on Leibniz’s ‘labyrinthine continuousness’. For Deleuze the baroque endlessly produces folds. It does not invent things. The emphasis is on fluidity and plasticity--the folds expand infinitely in all directions rather than definitely in the shape of a cone, line or sight that culminates in a single point or subjectivity.
The continuous labyrinth resembles a sheet of paper in origami that is divided into infinite folds or separated into bending movements
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