Language is an authorless plastic formation through which speakers encounter an immemorial past

Evidence

One stumbles onto language, onto that part of it which falls to one’s share (qui vous échoit) and which is ‘found there’ as something to be picked up. Language is a stamped and hallmarked material (gestempelt), that sends us back to an original, authorless formation, an original plasticity. The naturalness of language allows us to experience an immemorial past. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1158

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s running thread that plasticity names auto-formation without an author — cf. ch121 on automatism being ‘the work of no one’ and ch125 that Absolute Knowledge is authorless. — connects to: Language is always metaphorical relative to past civilisations’ meanings — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1600; Language derives from an authorless original formation, an original plasticity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1158; the MOC “The Word Is a Fence: Language as Battleground, Property, and Partition”
• DEFINE: Defines the speculative word stoßen and gesture of stumbling/falling onto language as disclosing language’s authorless plasticity.