Enfoldment and Infinity

”“Enfoldment and Infinity” is the most inventive synthesis of European and Islamic thought since Reza Negarestani’s “Cyclonopedia”. This is a book full of imagination and theory, restlessly refusing to remain in the usual continental, philosophic, or chronological borders, continuously reimagining contemporary abstraction as a profoundly Muslim visual discourse.“–James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
“Admirably researched, beautifully documented, and written with dedicated passion, “Enfoldment and Infinity” convincingly demonstrates the deep continuities between ancient Islamic art and new media art. With this book, Laura Marks makes an original and important contribution to understanding the aesthetics of contemporary media culture and its hidden Islamic genealogies.“–Patricia Pisters, University of Amsterdam
“After reading Laura Marks’s lucid “Enfoldment and Infinity”, which leads us through the deep time layers of Arabic-Islamic arts and sciences, we have to give up our established concepts of media history. There remains no substantial reason to declare our culture and technologies of communication the most advanced in the world. Chapter by chapter, it becomes more evident that some of the most important paradigms like algorithms, pixels, morphs, or even virtual reality and artificial life have not been originally generated by the Occident, but through L’Age d’Or of the Orient, especially Mesopotamia with Baghdad in its center.“–Siegfried Zielinski, Academy of Arts Berlin
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“After reading Laura Marks’s lucid

Laura U. Marks is Dena Wosk University Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Enfoldment and Infinity- An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art (MIT Press).

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