Flexibility demands adaption to a world that lacks continuity itself.

Evidence

Whatever domain one considers (company, school, family), the rules of the world have changed. They are no longer obedience, discipline, and conformity to morals, but flexibility, change, reaction time, etc. The demand for self-mastery, affective and psychical suppleness, and capacities for action force each person to adapt continuously to a world without continuity, to an unstable, provisional world in flux, and to careers with ups and downs. The legibility of the social and political game is muddied. These institutional transformations give the impression that everyone, including the most fragile, must take up the task of choosing everything and deciding everything. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 169

Categorization

• SEED: This inverts the wellness narrative: adapt-to-change is really adapt-to-instability where nothing holds still for judgment.
• XREF: connects to: Adaptation to conditions is itself now managerial, not radical. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 62; Adaptability is a key asset that makes regimes easier to modify than replace — Robert B. McCalla, NATO’s persistence after the cold war, 113