Brain plasticity descriptions may either serve or resist neoliberal command.

Evidence

Producing a consciousness of the brain thus comes down to producing the conditions of possibility for a new world of questioning: Can the description of brain plasticity escape the insidious command of the New World Order? Can it introduce something like a resistance within this very order? Can plastic brains measure the limits of their flexibility? — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 181

Categorization

• SEED: The question ‘Can plastic brains measure the limits of their flexibility?’ is a strong essay hook for the reader’s memo-catching project.
• XREF: connects to: ADHD and dyslexia are pathologies of late capitalist control circuits — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 54