Brain and workplace mirror each other in the figure of decentered command

Evidence

The metaphor of the central organ has definitively been surpassed, even if it continues to impose itself as an epistemological and ideological obstacle. This crisis of centrality rests on a delocalization and a reticular suppleness in the structures of command. In the same way that neuronal connections are supple and do not obey a centralized or even truly hierarchized system, political and economic power displays an organizational suppleness in which the center also appears to have disappeared. The biological and the social mirror in each other this new figure of command. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 116

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s tracking goal: whether the brain-workplace analogy is argued or asserted. Here Malabou asserts a mirror/structure analogy rather than proving a causal or structural identity — worth flagging as an asserted-not-argued moment.
• DEFINE: Introduces the figure of command that presumes flexibility in both domains, which the reader wants to interrogate.