Brain plasticity includes a capacity to destroy form, not only create it

Evidence

The word plasticity thus unfolds its meaning between sculptural molding and deflagration, which is to say explosion. From this perspective, to talk about the plasticity of the brain means to see in it not only the creator and receiver of form but also an agency of disobedience to every constituted form, a refusal to submit to a model. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 41

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Establishes the third, explosive sense of plasticity that most usage omits.
• XREF: Links to the reader’s core interest: the explosive/giving-form senses are what flexibility omits, enabling the docility-substitution catch.
• ADDENDUM: The ‘agency of disobedience’ in brain plasticity parallels the disobedient, explosive potential Malabou will later argue workplaces strip into mere flexibility.

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• Plasticity spans both taking on form and annihilating it (similarity 0.89)
• Plasticity means formative change through rupture, not smooth continuous adaptation (similarity 0.88)
• Plasticity spans both the creation and the explosive annihilation of form. (similarity 0.87)
• Plasticity spans a spectrum from fixed form to total malleability (similarity 0.86)
• Plasticity spans from rigid determination of form to total freedom from form (similarity 0.86)
• Plasticity names the dialectical union of form-seizure and form-annihilation. (similarity 0.86)
• Plasticity names the unity of spontaneity and receptivity in giving and receiving form (similarity 0.86)
• The brain’s explosive excess resists self-obedience and drives formative change. (similarity 0.85)
• Plasticity also means the ability to change one’s own determination (similarity 0.84)
• Plasticity includes a closed sense of receiving a definitive, irreversible form. (similarity 0.84)
• Destructive plasticity creates new identity precisely through annihilation of the old (similarity 0.84)
• Brain plasticity descriptions may either serve or resist neoliberal command. (similarity 0.84)
• Plasticity spans closed form and open malleability, making brains self-sculpting historical structures. (similarity 0.84)