The baroque

The Baroque refers not to an essence but rather to an operative function, to a trait. It endlessly twists and turns its folds, pushing them to infinity, fold over fold, one upon the other. The Baroque fold unfurls all the way to infinity. 

- Gilles Deleuze, 199

 

Rather than a continuing series of folds, differentials and modulations comprising the world as a folding, the baroque is actualized as a smoothing out of creases through accord, harmonization and the reintegration of fragments.

- Anna Munster, 2006