Plasticity is experienced as the act of reading the speculative proposition

Evidence

If philosophy must ‘rigidly exclude the usual way of relating the parts of a proposition’, this is because its task is to think the indissoluble dialectical relation between the movement of the becoming essential of contingency (‘what seems to be the predicate becomes the whole independent mass’44) and that of the becoming aleatory of essence (the predicate fades away in the pure universality of the subject). Plasticity, informing the self-determining movement of substance and establishing the identity of contingency and necessity, is experienced in the act of reading. This is precisely what Absolute Knowledge knows. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1237

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s own brain/flexibility work — reading as the performance of plasticity, the model for how a plastic self forms through engagement. — connects to: Hegel ties plasticity directly to the speculative proposition’s form — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1132; Plasticity names the concept’s reflexive power to both give and receive its own figures — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 68
• DEFINE: Defines plasticity’s key dual move: becoming essential of contingency joined to becoming aleatory of essence.

Broader Connections

• Hegel ties plasticity directly to the speculative proposition’s form #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1132
• Plasticity names the concept’s reflexive power to both give and receive its own figures #corroborates (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 68