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Deleuzian Fold

Philosophy
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A structure in which interior and exterior continually curve into one another.

Detailed Definition
The Deleuzian fold offers poetry a way to imagine subjectivity as layered, mobile, and never completely self-contained. A memory folds a public event into private feeling; a line folds one time into another; an image folds the world back into the perceiving body. Rather than dividing inside from outside, the concept describes their continuous modulation. Poems using folded structures may repeat motifs with altered intensities, making identity appear as an ongoing series of inflections.
Example
Example in poetry:
The Deleuzian fold describes continuous interior and exterior bending into one another, and a poem can fold memory into present perception; A line that moves from a room’s wallpaper to a childhood landscape demonstrates a fold between physical space and recollection; In a poem of nested images, one thought contains another without creating a simple beginning or end; A stanza break can become a Deleuzian fold when what seems outside the poem returns as an altered inner voice
Additional Notes
The Deleuzian fold, associated with Gilles Deleuze, describes boundaries in which inside and outside continually turn into one another. It can help explain how thought, memory, architecture, or identity is shaped by forces that seem external. In poetic analysis, recurring images and layered syntax may enact such folding.
Also Known As
The Fold Baroque Fold
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