Refusing flexible self-modification is what we should do with our brain

Evidence

Fashioning an identity in such a world has no meaning except as constructing of countermodel to this caricature, as opposed simply to replicating it. Not to replicate the caricature of the world: this is what we should do with our brain. To refuse to be flexible individuals who combine a permanent control of the self with a capacity to self-modify at the whim of fluxes, transfers, and exchanges, for fear of explosion. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 256

Categorization

• XREF: This is the explicit rejection of ‘flexible individuals’ in the face of capital — the book’s climactic statement of the plasticity/flexibility distinction.
• SEED: Essay angle: how ‘adaptability’ rhetoric in workplace culture masks docility — flexibility as compliance rebranded.