"it is only with the recent increasing interest in 3D-structures within the natural sciences and the humanities that the fold has become a new object of study. Folding in contemporary thought is to be conceived of as a constitutive and fundamental principle in biomaterials, in philosophical work of both Deleuze and Leibniz, in the mathematics of Rene Thom and even in El Greco's paintings. Both as a material and a structural process, folding offers a new methodology to think about the relationship between matter, form, and code, being indispensable in view of new conceptions of structural transformations. Folding thus does away with old dichotomies, such as the organic/inorganic, or nature/technology, allows us to blur the boundaries between experimental, conceptual and historical approaches. This novel anthology aims to unfold this new interdisciplinary field and its disciplinary impact, and to open up new horizons in our thinking about analog and digital code, structure, and matter."--Page 4 of cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-237).
Contents:
On folding: introduction of a new field of interdisciplinary research / Michael Friedman, Wolfgang Schaffner -- Folding the narrative: the dimensionality of writing in French structuralism / Karin Krauthausen -- Simply complicated: thinking in folds / Angelika Seppi -- Infinite folds: El Greco and Deleuze's operative function of the fold / Claudia Blumle -- Versal unfolding: how a specific folding can turn crease and tear in transversal notions / Emmanuel Ferrand, Dominique Peysson -- 3D code: folding in the architecture of Peter Eisenman / Sandra Schramke -- Folding and geometry: Buckminster Fuller's provocative thinking / Michael Friedman, Joachim Krausse -- An introduction into the physics of self-folding thin structures / Lorenzo Guiducci, John W.C. Dunlop, Peter Fratzl -- Folding of graphene and other two-dimensional materials / Mohammad Fardin Gholami, Nikolai Severin, Jurgen P. Rabe.
Summary:
It is only recently, with the increasing interest in origami and folding in natural sciences and the humanities, that the fold as a new conception in a whole range of disciplines has begun to be conceived in a broader way. Folding as a material and structural process offers a new methodology to think about the close relationship of matter, form and code. It henceforth crosses out old dichotomies, such as the organic and the inorganic or nature and technology, and blurs the boundaries between experimental, conceptual and historical approaches. This anthology aims to unfold this new interdisciplinary field and its disciplinary impact, ranging from materials science, biology, architecture, and mathematics to literature and philosophy.
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