Style lets particular individuals imprint what they express onto the universal

Evidence

Style, the deictic or ostensive aspect of individuality, represents a distinctive manner (façon) of being or acting that represents the universal, that brings the ordinary and general onto the scene in a form appropriate to it. Accordingly, the ‘plastic individual’ has, through the impact of his style, the power to transmit or imprint (imprime) what he expresses (exprime). — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 591

Categorization

• XREF: The imprimer/exprimer wordplay connects to Malabou’s own materialist rereading of Hegel — style as bodily imprinting links to plasticity as neural inscription. — connects to: Style promises to reconcile individual expression with a shared universal idiom. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 392; Fashion arose to reconcile individual identity with mass-produced industrial aesthetics — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2839; Every person is perceived as both unique individual and general type — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 174 (+4 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: Style as the medium through which the particular transmits the universal — a nuanced account of how individuality renders the general.

Broader Connections

• Style promises to reconcile individual expression with a shared universal idiom. #corroborates (0.92) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 392
• Mass production of clothing is reconciled through individualized fashion expression #corroborates (0.88)
• Fashion arose to reconcile individual identity with mass-produced industrial aesthetics #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2839
• Every person is perceived as both unique individual and general type #expands (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 174
• Fashion substitutes for class and profession as a source of individual differentiation. #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 732
• Personalization rhetoric makes individuals identify with their social functions #expands (0.72) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 392