Plasticity spans the capacity to give form and to explode all form.

Evidence

But it must be remarked that plasticity is also the capacity to annihilate the very form it is able to receive or create. We should not forget that plastique, from which we get the words plastiquage and plastiquer, is an explosive substance made of nitroglycerine and nitrocellulose, capable of causing violent explosions. We thus note that plasticity is situated between two extremes: on the one side the sensible image of taking form (sculpture or plastic objects), and on the other side that of the annihilation of all form (explosion). — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 40

Categorization

• DEFINE: This etymology — plastique the explosive — is the load-bearing foundation of Malabou’s whole plasticity/flexibility distinction.
• ADDENDUM: The ‘agency of disobedience to every constituted form’ that follows is the conceptual kernel my management-memo purpose depends on.
• XREF: connects to: Life’s concentrated forms carry an explosive charge through contraction; Plasticity is the self-energizing medium where form and content share one law. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1252; Plasticity frames a challenge between giving form and exploding form — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 267