Plasticity is the self-energizing medium where form and content share one law.
Evidence
In the case of plasticity, because of the identity of its meaning and its way of being – its content and its form – we can say that the originary synthetic medium of opposites, as a reservoir of energy, itself obeys the law of its own power. It explodes its own reserves. Hegel’s idea of the arising, the event, belongs in this place of contrasts where form forms itself and at the same time deforms itself, where it acquires consistency and bursts out like a bomb. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1252
Categorization
- DEFINE: Core definition of plasticity as the identity of content and form, which then auto-explodes.
- DEEPTHINKING: The notion that an originary medium ‘obeys the law of its own power’ and bursts its own reserves is a dense, paradigm-level compression of Hegel’s event as self-forming and self-deforming.
- XREF: connects to: Plasticity designates at once the capacity to receive and to bestow form.; Plasticity holds original form and full self-transformation together — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 259; Plasticity means both receiving and giving form, unlike mere malleability — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 39 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Plasticity designates at once the capacity to receive and to bestow form.
#expands(0.85) - Plasticity holds original form and full self-transformation together
#exemplifies(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 259 - Plasticity means both receiving and giving form, unlike mere malleability
#expands(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 39 - Plasticity names both malleability and the power to give form
#expands(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1310 - Plasticity spans the capacity to give form and to explode all form.
#expands(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 40 - Plasticity spans both taking on form and annihilating it
#expands(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 231