Method is not rules but the experience of a path making its own history
Evidence
This choice has an exemplary general value, we should even say, a universal methodological value if we could at least agree on surrendering the concept of method to a Hegelian mutation. It should not suffice then to hold method, as Hegel himself thought, for something other than a system of predetermined rules or regulations, but as the very experience of the path tracing its own history; we should also interpret this experience from the motifs of plasticity and the expression ‘to see (what is) coming’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 86
Categorization
- DEFINE: Distills the Hegelian redefinition of method as self-tracing path rather than prescribed procedure.
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s core goal: this is the theoretical root of plasticity as creative/destructive formation, later transposed onto the brain. — connects to: Will concerns method of attaining an already posited end, not choosing the end itself; Hall’s method reads conjunctures to find strategic moves, not first principles; Designing a credible alternative system requires a path-dependent counterfactual history. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 702 (+3 more)