Flexibility is merely reproductive and normative, not creative.

Evidence

The auto-constitution of self obviously cannot be conceived as a simple adaptation to a form, to a mold, or to the received schemata of a culture. One is formed only by virtue of a resistance to form itself; polymorphism, open to all forms, capable of donning all masks, adopting all postures, all attitudes, engenders the undoing of identity. Rather than displaying a real tension between maintenance and evolution, flexibility confounds them within a pure and simple logic of imitation and performance. It is not creative but reproductive and normative. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 236

Categorization

• DEFINE: The ‘docility rebranded as adaptability’ catch: flexibility confounds constancy and change into imitation, hence is normative rather than creative.
• SEED: This is the passage that grounds an essay on how management language smuggles docility in under the banner of ‘adaptability.’