Stored energy needs only a spark to detonate

Evidence

It feeds itself on substances which are … reservoirs of energy. Formed from complex molecules which contain a considerable sum of chemical energy in the potential state, these substances are like explosives, needing only a spark to set free the stored-up force. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 521

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘spark-to-detonation’ figure is precisely the trigger problem lurking in Anidjar’s plasticity claim — what is the external spark, and is it institutional?