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For Foucault, 'fold is' 'force plying on itself' (Deleuze Negotiations 98).

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is constitutive of the basic unit of existence. It describes the nature of the human subject as the outside folded in: An immanently political, social, embedded subject.

Deleuze argues that the process of folding constitutes the basic unit of existence. While there are elements of the fold already in Leibniz and the architecture and art of the period, as Deleuze points out (N 157), it gains a new consistency and significance when used as a creative term in this manner. Throughout the book, and later, in Foucault, Deleuze uses the concept of the fold to describe the nature of the human subject as the outside folded in: an immanently political, social, embedded subject.' (NET)

is contrasted with the line in that straight lines are all alike but folds vary, and all folding proceeds by differentiation.

Straight lines are all alike, but folds vary, and all folding proceeds by differentiation' (Deleuze Negotiations 156).

is also representative of the relationship of oneself to — and 'over' — one's self.

Sullivan O'Tool in his entries in Deleuze Dictionary -https://www.simonosullivan.net/articles/deleuze-dictionary.pdf

is a term used to critique typical accounts of subjectivity that focus on inside and outside (appearance and essence, surface and depth) since the fold announces that the inside is nothing more than a fold of the outside.

is a technical term that allows us to think creatively about the production of subjectivity, and ultimately about the possibilities for, and production of, 'non-human' forms of 'subjectivity'.

is the topology of our material selves, our bodies, subjectivity time, memory.

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