Plastic explosiveness becomes an uncontrollable bomb when the subject loses its speculative clock
Evidence
To the menace of sight, without even having the time ‘to see (what is) coming’, the plasticity of the plastic exploding in the very hands of all and any ‘subject’ as a bomb whose timer remains uncontrollable? A bomb which would no longer be regulated or programmed by this ‘speculative clock’ through which the effective soul, you were saying, the one which is not crazy, can tell the time, indeed a bomb without the timer that lies within the clock of the ‘speculative subject’? And which could not in any case let itself be domesticated or appropriated, reset by habit, or in another words, be re-subjectivized? — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 124
Categorization
- XREF: This is exactly the conversion the reader hunts for: plasticity ‘exploding in the very hands of all and any subject’ when the clock of the speculative subject — the regulative temporal institution — is lost.
- DEEPTHINKING: Derrida poses precisely the causal question the reader inherits from Anidjar — what removes the ‘speculative clock’ that kept plastic receptivity tame, letting it detonate beyond re-subjectivization.
- QUESTION: The passage answers ‘what happens’ but not ‘which institutional arrangements remove the clock’ — worth chasing the mechanism further across this corpus.