Resilience means regaining stability after disaster, not mere robustness

Evidence

The term “resil­ ience” has a remarkably broad field of application. In information science, resil­ ience designates the quality that allows a system to continue to function correctly even though one or many of its constitutive elements are defective. This quality is called system resiliency. More recently, expressions such as “resilient business” or “resilient community” have appeared in American and Canadian publica­ tions in order to describe the intrinsic capacity of businesses, organizations, and communities to regain stability—either their initial state or a new equilibrium— allowing them to function in the wake of a disaster or in the presence of con­ tinuous stress. According to the same logic, one may speak of “resilient” societies, ethnic groups, languages, or systems of belief. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 4592

Categorization

• DEFINE: Malabou’s footnote defines resilience as adaptive recovery to initial or new equilibrium, distinct from resistance to damage — crucial for her critique of resilience discourse.
• XREF: Connects to Bronfenbrenner/social-ecological resilience literature and to the broader debate on resilience as a buzzword the reader may have encountered elsewhere. — connects to: Resilience marks irreversible psychic change, not a return to prior equilibrium — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 3800; Nonattachment enables resilience in the face of failure. — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 1068; Resilience means forming oneself out of the annihilation of form — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 251 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Nonattachment enables resilience in the face of failure. #expands (0.80) — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 1068
• Resilience means forming oneself out of the annihilation of form #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 251
• Mindfulness creates resilience against impulse reactions. #expands (0.75) — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 1134
• Flexibility is passivity — conciliation, not resilience #contradicts (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 252
• True stability means change adapted to fixed principles, not rigidity #qualifies (0.75)