Plasticity spans both taking on form and annihilating it

Evidence

Plasticity is situated between two extremes: on one side, the taking on of form (sculpture, molding, fashioning of plastic material); on the other, the annihilation of form (plastique, detonation). Plasticity deploys its meaning between sculptural modeling and deflagration—in other words, explosion. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 231

Categorization

• DEFINE: The full span of the term plasticity: giving form at one pole, destroying form (plastique) at the other — load-bearing for catching the flexibility-substitution.
• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s prior note that plasticity can explode form while flexibility cannot. — connects to: Plasticity is the self-energizing medium where form and content share one law. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1252; Plasticity names both malleability and the power to give form — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1310