The Fold

Is that folding or is that doubling?

Is it simply the production of subjectivity?

Is it the appearance and essence? Or is it based on existentialism philosophy which points out that existence precedes the essence and is thus a principal since something has to exist first and then have an essence?

Is the inside nothing more than a fold of outside?

Is it the fold of our material selves, our bodies to the fold of time or simply memory?

Is it one’s individuality which is a question of a kind of Nietzscheian Mastery over the swarm of one’s being?

To have is to fold which is outside in, the fold of our soul, the incorporeal aspect of our subjectivity.

In the book Foucault, Gilles Deleuze points out that the fold is the operation proper to man, then the super fold is the synonymous with the superman – understood as that which ‘free life’ from within man.

Originality, Singularity, Identity

The man is in charge of animals (capturing the code), the rock (the realm of inorganic), and the very being of language (the realm of affect ‘below’ signification). For Deleuze the man is involved as an unlimited finite. ‘It is a fold in which a finite number of components produce an infinite number of combinations’ (Deleuze, Bergsonism). This is the difference and repetition of Deleuze - or what we might term his fractal ontology.

The super fold still involves in a relation with an outside.

Then the result of three future fold would be:

1.     The fold of molecular biology (the discovery of generic code)

2.     The fold of silicon with carbon (the emergence of third generation machines, cybernetics and information technology)

3.     Strange language within the language.

The Code

The key term in modern philosophy can be identified as rhizome. It tests the intelligent capacity for finding beginnings.

A rhizome is a labyrinth. It is a structure of passages. It is marked by some properties that distinguish it from the occidental history of labyrinth. First, it has neither beginning nor end; it is also without an Ariadne thread. It is a labyrinth without center or periphery. The third character that defines the rhizome is a structure of passages. The metric order of which is so confused that it is unclear. Which element or place of the labyrinth will take it to the next is not clear. It is a system of shortcuts and detours, but not of straight and direct paths.

These three elements (no beginning or end, no Ariadne thread, center or periphery and finally a system of passages that consists only of shortcuts and detours) characterize a rhizome that is why it is the place of unforeseen encounter.

The modern problem can be in a system of contingencies which are random events. The events are neither necessary nor impossible that take place on the basis of diminished causality. A contingent event occurs, but it is not clear to me to explain.