The Baroque refers not to an essence but rather to an operative function,
to a trait. It endlessly produces folds. It does not invent things: there are
all kinds of folds coming from the East, Greek, Roman, Romanesque,
Gothic, Classical folds. … Yet the Baroque trait 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.
The Fold, Leibniz and the Baroque, Gilles Deleuze
