Softness presents annihilation slowed, revealing both power and limitation

Evidence

The challenge for this exercise is that no matter how slow you are walking, you can always go much slower. … The purpose of the exercise is to challenge your normal pattern or rhythm of walking so that you can learn to reconnect with very subtle energies in the body as the weight shifts from side to side in an extremely slow walk. — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 235 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

A first objection takes issue with the hypothesis of destructive plasticity and threatens to undermine its validity. Such plasticity, I have argued, has the power to form identity through destruction—thus making possible the emergence of a psyche that has vacated itself, its past, and its “precedents.” In this sense, such plasticity has the power of creation ex nihilo, since it begins with the annihilation of an initial identity. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 1495 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Destructive plasticity creates new identity precisely through annihilation of the old — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 1495; Extreme slow walking reveals subtle bodily energies normally masked — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 235

Broader Connections

• Destructive plasticity creates new identity precisely through annihilation of the old #corroborates (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 1495
• Extreme slow walking reveals subtle bodily energies normally masked #exemplifies (0.80) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 235