Contraction that gives forms also stores the energy that later explodes

Evidence

Contraction and concentration are the work of the plasticity of life, initially in the sense that life is responsible for the donation of the vital forms, but also in the sense that each of these forms, to the degree that it is made of a concentrated energy, provokes an explosion. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 518

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Gives the organic mechanism for what Anidjar calls the explosive pole of plasticity: form-giving contraction is itself what concentrates the explosive charge.
• XREF: Core to the enmity MOC: this is the mechanism by which the passive screen of the enemy accumulates explosive charge — but does not yet say which conditions trigger the spark.
• QUESTION: If the plastic contraction that gives form also stores explosive energy, the genuine question becomes: what institutional or discursive ‘trigger’ converts stored charge into detonation?

Related

• Life’s concentrated forms carry an explosive charge through contraction (similarity 0.87)
• The word plasticity spans crystallization of form and annihilation of form (similarity 0.81)
• Consciousness works by converting stored energy into controlled releases (similarity 0.79)
• The word ‘plastic’ spans from form-giving sculpture to the annihilation of form in explosives (similarity 0.79)
• Plasticity spans both taking on form and annihilating it (similarity 0.79)
• Stored energy needs only a spark to detonate (similarity 0.79)
• Plasticity spans the capacity to give form and to explode all form. (similarity 0.78)