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Daniel W. Smith - Deleuze's The Fold

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Bilateral Symmetry of the Body

Cooper: Leibniz gave us the proper context to finally situate this question. He says there's some bodies that are circles, you know, radial symmetry like jellyfish but we have bilateral symmetry. This is what Delos is interested in; he asks how it happens also in embryo genesis. Cooper: It was quite interesting to me because at some point when the embryo developments, its cells divide, and then at a certain point, they arrange themselves in a circle. And it's at that point when they're in this circular form, at some point they fold.

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