Plasticity recurs symptomatically across Hegel’s corpus but was wrongly neglected.

Evidence

By ‘plasticity’ we mean first of all the excess of the future over the future; while ‘temporality’, as it figures in speculative philosophy, will mean the excess of time over time. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 210 (#expands, via linked claim)

To form the concept of plasticity as it figures in Hegel’s philosophy requires first of all that we uncover the way in which Hegel himself constructs this idea. When we take this further, we find that three areas of meaning are mutually implicated. In each case that double connotation of the adjective ‘plastic’ reappears: a capacity to receive form and a capacity to produce form. It is this double signification which enables us to treat the adjective as itself a ‘speculative word’, in Hegel’s special sense. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 228 (#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: Reading Hegel is a hall of mutually reflecting mirrors across plasticity’s stages; Plasticity for Hegel means the future exceeding itself and time exceeding itself — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 210; Hegel’s plasticity joins a capacity to receive form with a capacity to produce form — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 228 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Plasticity for Hegel means the future exceeding itself and time exceeding itself #expands (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 210
• Hegel’s plasticity joins a capacity to receive form with a capacity to produce form #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 228
• Plasticity means formative change through rupture, not smooth continuous adaptation #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 258
• Hegel grounds plasticity in νς’s power to self-differentiate while remaining unmixed #expands (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 466