Contemporary capitalism demands the same delocalized mobility it sees in the brain

Evidence

But aren’t these qualities also those expected today of the individual in the working world? Shouldn’t we become polyvalent, accepting the law of delocalization by making ourselves available, showing ourselves to be without attachment, ready to break old ties, to create new ones? … One must always be leaving in order to survive, that is to say, in a certain sense, in order to remain. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 151

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Coase and Milgrom readings on how institutions emerge to fill reputational gaps — here capitalist discourse borrows neural mobility to demand worker delocalization.
• SHARE: The ‘leaving in order to remain’ inversion is a shareable line for someone tracking neo-management rhetoric or Boltanski and Chiapello’s new spirit of capitalism.
• DEFINE: Money quote capturing the difference the reader will need: of multiple workers’ paradoxical mandate to be perpetually other than fixed.