Flexibility is an ideological norm that naturalizes neuronal processes to justify social functioning

Evidence

How can we fail to see that the only real view of progress opened by the neurosciences is that of an improvement in the ”quality of life” through a better treatment of illness? But we don’t want these half-measures, what Nietzsche would rightly call a logic of sickness, despairing, and suffering. What we are lacking is life, which is to say: resistance. Resistance is what we want. Resistance to flexibility, to this ideological norm advanced consciously or otherwise by a reductionist discourse that models and naturalizes the neuronal process in order to legitimate a certain social and political functioning. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 225

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s purpose: this is Malabou naming flexibility as the ideological norm she contrasts with plasticity proper, and flagging that the brain-workplace analogy is asserted for legitimation. — connects to: Flexibility functions as enforced docility within exploitative culture
• SEED: Angle: how neuroscience rhetoric launders neoliberal flexibility norms by ‘naturalizing’ them in the brain — traceable through wellness app and corporate training copy.