Plasticity names the negativity that is time’s gift of form

Evidence

Consequently, God’s inner negativity can no longer be interpreted as passivity, unless we are to understand by this passivity the passivity of time itself. But since the passivity of time is also a gift of form, plasticity is demonstrably the right word. Invoking this name brings into play the future of God – God as the one ‘who sees (himself) coming’. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 169

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definitional moment: plasticity is the passivity of time understood as a gift of form, not mere receptivity. This is precisely the reader’s stated goal — the theoretical root of plasticity via Hegel.
• XREF: Connects directly to plasticity as biological self-modification — passivity of time as form-giving echoes the brain’s capacity to receive and impose form simultaneously. — connects to: Destructive plasticity creates new identity precisely through annihilation of the old — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 1495; Divine negativity manifests plasticity, not lack or passivity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 759; Plasticity is suppleness that is neither passion nor passivity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 290 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Plasticity is suppleness that is neither passion nor passivity #qualifies (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 290
• Divine negativity manifests plasticity, not lack or passivity #corroborates (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 759