Plasticity is useless without grasping its political and economic implications.
Evidence
Indeed, so long as we do not grasp the political, economic, social, and cultural implications of the knowledge of cerebral plasticity available today, we cannot do anything with it. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 266
Categorization
Category: Connection Points
- SEED: Essay angle: the management-memo substitution is precisely a failure to grasp plasticity’s political-economic implications, hence a depoliticized flexibility masquerading as plasticity.
Related
- Understanding plasticity’s political and economic implications precedes using it (similarity 0.91)
- Brain plasticity descriptions may either serve or resist neoliberal command. (similarity 0.84)
- Brain plasticity research has changed nothing socially or politically (similarity 0.82)
- Plasticity adapts while flexibility submits, so the two are not interchangeable (similarity 0.80)
- Neuroscience without a theory of transformation exposes itself to ideological co-option (similarity 0.79)
- Plasticity, unlike neoliberal flexibility, retains memory of prior forms (similarity 0.79)
- Ignorance of brain plasticity stems from consciousness, not information shortage (similarity 0.79)
- Plasticity is the organizing paradigm of contemporary neuroscience (similarity 0.79)
- Plasticity is understood as a verbal and conceptual schema (similarity 0.79)
- Plasticity spans both taking on form and annihilating it (similarity 0.78)
- Flexibility is an unrooted notion while plasticity is a historically grounded concept (similarity 0.78)
- Plasticity also means the ability to change one’s own determination (similarity 0.78)
- Plasticity enables neurons to change difference and transform their program (similarity 0.78)
- Plasticity is adaptive while flexibility is submission, not resourcefulness (similarity 0.78)