Plasticity names the unity of spontaneity and receptivity in giving and receiving form

Evidence

The dialectical process is ‘plastic’ because, as it unfolds, it makes links between the opposing moments of total immobility (the ‘fixed’) and vacuity (‘dissolution’), and then links both in the vitality of the whole, a whole which, reconciling these two extremes, is itself the union of resistance (Widerstand) and fluidity (Flüssigkeit). The process of plasticity is dialectical because the operations which constitute it, the seizure of form and the annihilation of all form, emergence and explosion, are contradictory. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 247 (#expands, via linked claim)

We must consider that in a certain sense the brain does not obey itself, that it manufactures events, that there can be an excess in the system, an explosive part that, without being pathological, refuses to obey. We have seen that plasticity allows us to combine the thought of a sculpture of the self with that of transdifferentiation. To exist is to be able to change difference while respecting the difference of change: the difference between continuous change, without limits, without adventure, without negativity, and a formative change that tells an effective story and proceeds by ruptures, conflicts, dilemmas. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 258 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Plasticity names the concept’s reflexive power to both give and receive its own figures — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 68; The schema is the plastic form mediating giving and receiving — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 68; Plasticity means both receiving and giving form, unlike mere malleability — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 39 (+18 more)

Related

• Plasticity names the dialectical union of form-seizure and form-annihilation. (similarity 0.95)
• Plasticity names the concept’s reflexive power to both give and receive its own figures (similarity 0.93)
• Plasticity means both receiving and giving form, unlike mere malleability (similarity 0.92)
• Plasticity names both malleability and the power to give form (similarity 0.91)
• Plasticity spans a spectrum from fixed form to total malleability (similarity 0.90)
• Hegel’s plasticity joins a capacity to receive form with a capacity to produce form (similarity 0.90)
• Plasticity means receiving form while resisting deformation, and extends to tissue regrowth (similarity 0.90)
• The word plastic denotes a dynamism of receiving and giving form (similarity 0.89)
• Plasticity spans from rigid determination of form to total freedom from form (similarity 0.89)
• Plasticity includes a closed sense of receiving a definitive, irreversible form. (similarity 0.89)
• Plasticity means formative change through rupture, not smooth continuous adaptation (similarity 0.89)
• Plasticity’s future emerges from replaying rigid past forms (similarity 0.88)
• Plasticity spans both taking on form and annihilating it (similarity 0.88)
• The intellect’s capacity to receive and give form originates its plasticity (similarity 0.88)
• A closed system’s openness to modification while transforming itself is plasticity (similarity 0.88)

Broader Connections

• Plasticity names the dialectical union of form-seizure and form-annihilation. #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 247
• Plasticity holds origin and self-abandonment together in one capacity #expands (0.75)
• Plasticity means formative change through rupture, not smooth continuous adaptation #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 258