Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories

Earth Moves, Bernard Cache's first major work, conceptualizes a series ofarchitectural images as vehicles for two important developments. First, he offers anew understanding of the architectural image itself. Following Gilles Deleuze andHenri Bergson, he develops an account of the image that is nonrepresentational andconstructive--images as constituents of a primary, image world, of whichsubjectivity itself is a special kind of image. Second, Cache redefines architecturebeyond building proper to include cinematic, pictoral, and otherframings.Complementary to this classification, Cache offers what is to date the onlyDeleuzean architectural development of the "fold," a form and concept that hasbecome important over the last few years. For Cache, as for Deleuze, what issignificant about the fold is that it provides a way to rethink the relationshipbetween interior and exterior, between past and present, and between architectureand the urban.