Deleuze's 'The Fold' Reinterprets Leibniz's Windowless Monad as Dynamic Interiority

In his 1988 book 'The Fold' and related lectures, Gilles Deleuze reinterprets Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's concept of the monad, traditionally understood as a windowless, self-sufficient substance ranked hierarchically by God. Deleuze argues that the monad is not a fixed essence but an exterior folded into an interior, produced through mathematical inflection. This reframing shifts substance from static being to a continuous manner of becoming, where perception is constituted by infinitesimal 'petites perceptions' and the subject emerges from a point of view. The analysis draws on Leibniz's 'Monadology' (1714) and extends to aesthetics, notably the Baroque, and to a broader theory of subjectivity as dynamic and relational. The article, published by The Collector, explores these philosophical ideas and their implications for understanding interiority and events.