Plasticity means receiving form while resisting deformation, and extends to tissue regrowth
Evidence
Things that are plastic preserve their shape, as does the marble in a statue: once given a configuration, it is unable to recover its initial form. ‘Plastic’, thus, designates those things that lend themselves to being formed while resisting deformation. From this it is possible to understand a further ‘extension’ of this term into the terrain of histology, in which ‘plasticity’ represents the ability of tissue to re-form itself after a lesion. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 226
Categorization
- DEFINE: Establishes the double meaning of plasticity — formed while resisting deformation — which is the load-bearing root of the whole book.
- XREF: Directly bridges to the reader’s brain plasticity work — tissue re-forming after lesion is the neuroplasticity application. — connects to: Plasticity in mechanics means irreversible deformation, the opposite of elasticity — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 62; Plasticity names the unity of spontaneity and receptivity in giving and receiving form; Plasticity names the dialectical union of form-seizure and form-annihilation. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 247 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Plasticity names the unity of spontaneity and receptivity in giving and receiving form
#expands(0.80) - Hegel’s plasticity joins a capacity to receive form with a capacity to produce form
#corroborates(0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 228 - Plasticity in mechanics means irreversible deformation, the opposite of elasticity
#qualifies(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 62 - Plasticity names the dialectical union of form-seizure and form-annihilation.
#expands(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 247 - Plasticity holds origin and self-abandonment together in one capacity
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