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    The document describes Laura U. Marks' theory of "enfolding-unfolding aesthetics", which analyzes images and histories as being enfolded from the cosmos and selectively unfolded. The theory draws from various philosophers and process philosophies. Marks has applied this theory in her writings on topics like new media art, cinema, perception, and information. She is writing a forthcoming book that will serve as a practical guide to enfolding-unfolding aesthetics.

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    Research: Enfolding-

    Unfolding | Laura U. Marks


    Enfolding-unfolding aesthetics

    A method to analyze images and histories as enfolded and


    selectively unfolded, arriving to our bodies from the
    cosmos. Enfolding-unfolding aesthetics draws on the
    triadic logic of C.S. Peirce, Henri Bergson, Leibniz’s
    philosophy and Deleuze’s revision of it, medieval Isma‘ili
    thought on latency and manifestation, Ibn Sînâ and
    Deleuze on the univocity of being, and the process
    philosophies of A.N. Whitehead and Mulla Sadra. It
    originated with physicist David Böhm's theory of the
    implicate order.

    I use this method in many writings, including Enfoldment


    and Infinity (2010) and Hanan al-Cinema (2015). My
    forthcoming book Enfolding-Unfolding Aesthetics: From
    Your Body to the Cosmos (Duke University Press) is a
    practical guide to enfolding-unfolding aesthetics.
    “Enfolding-unfolding aesthetics,” commissioned pages for
    Tenderfoot, artist Laura White’s blog on material
    processes. https://tenderfoot.co.uk/invitations-
    archive/enfolding-unfolding-aesthetics/

    "Radical gestures of unfolding in films by Mohamed


    Soueid and The Otolith Group,” Gestures of Seeing in Film,
    Video and Drawing, ed. Asbjørn Grønstad, Henrik
    Gustafsson, and Øyvind Vågnes (London: Routledge,
    2016), 69-88.

    “Monad, Database, Remix: Manners of Unfolding in The


    Last Angel of History," Black Camera 6:2 (2015), special
    issue on John Akomfrah, ed. Matthias de Groof and
    Stephanie Symons. 112-134. On Selected Writings page

    “Enfolding-Unfolding aesthetics, or the unthought at the


    heart of wood,” in Technology and Desire: The
    Transgressive Art of Moving Images, ed. Rania Gaafar and
    Martin Schulz (Karlsruhe: ZKM and London: Intellect
    Books, 2013) On Selected Writings page

    “Thinking like a carpet: embodied perception and


    individuation in algorithmic media,” in Entautomatisierung
    [Deautomatization], ed. Annette Brauerhoch et al.
    (Paderborn, Germany: Wilhelm Fink, 2012) On Selected
    Writings page

    “Noise in Enfolding-Unfolding Aesthetics,” The Oxford


    Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media, ed. Amy
    Herzog, John Richardson and Carol Vernallis (Oxford UP,
    2013). On Selected Writings page.

    Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New


    Media Art. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010.

    “Information, Secrets, and Enigmas: An Enfolding-


    Unfolding Aesthetics for Cinema,” Screen 50th
    anniversary issue 50:1 (Spring 2009), 86-98

    “Experience – Information – Image: a historiography of


    unfolding. Arab cinema as example,” Cultural Studies
    Review (March 2007): 85-98, special issue on “History
    Experiments.” Another version is “Geopolitics hides
    something in the image; Arab cinema unfolds something
    else,” in Cinema at the Periphery, ed. Bélen Vidal
    (University of Edinburgh Press). Available on Selected
    Writings page

    On experience in the information age see “Immigrant


    semiosis,” in Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema: Digital
    Futures, ed. Susan Lord and Janine Marchessault
    (University of Toronto Press, 2007), 284-303. On
    Selected Writings page

    I developed enfolding-unfolding aesthetics with designer


    Raegan Kelly as an animated diagram for Vectors: Journal
    of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular 1:3
    (2006)

    The model originated in “Invisible Media,” in New Media:


    Theories and Practices of Digitextuality, ed. Anna Everett
    and John T. Caldwell (Routledge, 2003)

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