Actualized forms discharge their potential energy to free future possibilities

Evidence

As Hegel shows us, the teleological structure ends by reversing its course, in that the forms already actualized discharge their potential energy and consequently liberate future possibilities of actualization. Distributed in this way, the individuals are ready to engage again, in new constructions, new readings, new thoughts. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1129

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definitional move of plasticity as the reversal of teleology: actualization discharges rather than exhausts potential.
• XREF: Connects to the ontology-of-plasticity thread being traced to ground her later brain plasticity work. — connects to: Hyperreal cities need imaginary parks to feed the energy of the real — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 51; Power operates as modalized possibility rather than actual force or capability — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 629; Perceiving possibilities for freedom enables breaking with existing patterns. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 13 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Freedom’s own possibilities rest on the ground of further possibilities #expands (0.80)
• Power operates as modalized possibility rather than actual force or capability #expands (0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 629
• Perceiving possibilities for freedom enables breaking with existing patterns. #exemplifies (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 13
• Power rests on arrangements over what is possible #expands (0.72)
• Imagining alternative futures can help bring them into being #exemplifies (0.72) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 365
• Causes require nihilation and transcendence toward a not-yet-existing potentiality #exemplifies (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1089