On Folding : Towards a New Field of Interdisciplinary Research / Michael Friedman, Wolfgang Schäffner

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 thin...

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Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Science studies.
Physical Description:1 online resource (243 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 On Folding: Introduction of a New Field of Interdisciplinary Research 7 Folding the Narrative: The Dimensionality of Writing in French Structuralism (1966 -1972) 31 Simply Complicated: Thinking in Folds 49 Infinite Folds: El Greco and Deleuze's Operative Function of the Fold 77 Versal Unfolding: How a Specific Folding Can Turn Crease and Tear into Transversal Notions 93 3D Code: Folding in the Architecture of Peter Eisenman 115 Folding and Geometry: Buckminster Fuller's Provocation of Thinking 139 An Introduction into the Physics of Self-folding Thin Structures 175 Folding of Graphene and Other Two-dimensional Materials 211