Plasticity is suppleness that is neither passion nor passivity

Evidence

Such a discourse – where the times meet and intersect – is beholden to the very thing it is trying to describe: that speculative suppleness which is neither passion nor passivity, but plasticity. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 290

Categorization

• DEFINE: The key negation defining plasticity: neither passion (receptivity) nor passivity — a speculative suppleness the discourse must itself embody.
• XREF: The metacircular demand — discourse beholden to what it describes — resonates with the plastic brain as both organ and metaphor for its own theorizing. — connects to: Freud never found the death drive’s form because he stripped destruction of plasticity — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 4097; Plasticity names the negativity that is time’s gift of form — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 169; Plasticity means both receiving and giving form, unlike mere malleability — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 39 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Plasticity means mobility of character, not rigidity or abstract virtue #expands (0.85)
• Plasticity is the exact antonym of rigidity, not its complement #expands (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 39
• Divine negativity manifests plasticity, not lack or passivity #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 759
• Plasticity means formative change through rupture, not smooth continuous adaptation #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 258
• Plasticity spans a spectrum from fixed form to total malleability #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 109
• Plasticity is not the same as polymorphous flexibility #expands (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 225
• Destructive plasticity forms identity through deconstitution, not preservation #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 202
• Plasticity adapts while flexibility submits, so the two are not interchangeable #expands (0.75)
• Plasticity in mechanics means irreversible deformation, the opposite of elasticity #exemplifies (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 62