The fold in web design and Deleuze

Reading Deleuze The Fold on the baroque and Leibniz, I was struck by how the word “fold” is also being used in web design for the break in a web page between what is seen on a typical screen when you load a page and what you have to scroll for. See Designing “Above the Fold” (Web Design in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition). (Thanks Carolyn Guertin for drawing my attention to this.)

How is the fold related to the interruption? Does the computer interrupt the flow by folding it into discrete objects or does the flow present itself folded?

-3 thoughts on “The fold in web design and Deleuze”

  1. This is a great idea for the Classics community. If a fraction of people post images related to the classical world it should provide a useful teaching collection of images. Will anyone buy slides when there are free digital images?

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