Neuronal and political command structures mirror each other’s apparent loss of center

Evidence

This crisis of centrality rests on a delocalization and a reticular suppleness in the structures of command. In the same way that neuronal connections are supple and do not obey a centralized or even truly hierarchized system, political and economic power displays an organizational suppleness in which the center also appears to have disappeared. The biological and the social mirror in each other this new figure of command. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 116

Categorization

• QUESTION: Is the ‘disappearance of the center’ in both neuroscience and political economy a genuine parallel or an asserted metaphor that papers over real differences? This is exactly the asserted-vs-argued analogy the reader wants to track.