Posing the plastic challenge means relating to one’s brain as a future world-image.
Evidence
Between the upsurge and the explosion of form, subjectivity issues the plastic challenge. I have tried to position us at the heart of this challenge, while inviting readers to do what they undoubtedly have never done: construct and entertain a relation with their brain as the image of a world to come. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 267
Categorization
Category: Inspiration and Speculation
- CANDY: ‘Do what they undoubtedly have never done’ — the provocation that the reader’s relation to their own brain is an image of a world to come is a clean, tweetable hook.
Related
- Plasticity spans closed form and open malleability, making brains self-sculpting historical structures. (similarity 0.82)
- Brain plasticity descriptions may either serve or resist neoliberal command. (similarity 0.81)
- Forming the self must be reimagined through plasticity, not flexibility or rigidity. (similarity 0.80)
- Plasticity spans a spectrum from fixed form to total malleability (similarity 0.80)
- Plasticity spans both the creation and the explosive annihilation of form. (similarity 0.80)
- Plasticity spans from rigid determination of form to total freedom from form (similarity 0.78)
- Plasticity spans both taking on form and annihilating it (similarity 0.78)