The Fold

“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

"Laura Marks’s The Fold aspires to open our imagination to a bigger and better world through interconnectedness and infinite possibility. . . . Marks wants to open up our mental doorways to new kinds of faith and practice, to new ways of seeing, understanding, and doing." - Robert M. Geraci, Public Books

"The book is full of a range of interesting political arguments. . . . It is hard to imagine geographers not appreciating ideas such as [these]." - Tara Elisabeth Jeyasingh, Social & Cultural Geography

"The Fold is a generous and novel contribution to film and media theory, as well as to our understanding of everyday life alongside aesthetic productions—the monograph is one that manages to be both rigorously philosophical and particulate, but nevertheless deeply felt." - Amber Patrice Sweat, Senses of Cinema