Explosions of rage can be legitimate resistance against a culture of docility.

Evidence

To cancel the fluxes, to lower our self-controlling guard, to accept exploding from time to time: this is what we should do with our brain. It is time to remember that some explosions are not in fact terrorist—explosions of rage, for example. Perhaps we ought to relearn how to enrage ourselves, to explode against a certain culture of docility, of amenity, of the effacement of all conflict even as we live in a state of permanent war. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 257

Categorization

• DEFINE: Contrasts explosion (plasticity’s form-giving/explosive spontaneity) against flexibility’s docile compliance — the core distinction the reader tracks.
• ADDENDUM: Directly feeds the reader’s stated goal of catching the plasticity-vs-flexibility substitution in memos; explosion is plasticity’s refusal, docility is flexibility.