The brain is tension and history, not a model for globalized economic organization.

Evidence

Thought is therefore nothing but nature, but a negated nature, marked by its own difference from itself. The world is not the calm prolonging of the biological. The mental is not the wise appendix of the neuronal. And the brain is not the natural ideal of globalized economic, political, and social organization; it is the locus of an organic tension that is the basis of our history and our critical activity. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 263

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: This is the decisive rebuttal of the brain-as-flexible-workplace metaphor the reader wants to catch being smuggled into memos.
• DEFINE: Flexibility posits the brain as natural ideal of compliant organization; plasticity posits it as site of critical tension.

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