The brain-workplace analogy circulates form-taking and form-annihilation across domains

Evidence

Plasticity deploys its meaning between sculptural modeling and deflagration—in other words, explosion. Let us now examine this last meaning. Essentially, today we must think this double movement, contradictory and nonetheless indissociable, of the emergence and disappearance of form. At the core of the constant circulation between the neuronal, the economic, the social, and the political that characterizes Western culture today, the individual ought to occupy the midpoint between the taking on of form and the annihilation of form—between the possibility of occupying a territory and accepting the rules of deterritorialization, between the configuration of a network and its ephemeral, effaceable character. — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 231

Categorization

• QUESTION: Malabou asserts a circulation between the neuronal, economic, social, and political — for the memo-catch task, is that circulation argued or merely asserted? No mechanism given here.
• XREF: The neuro-economic-political circulation she asserts maps onto the reader’s contrast between argued vs asserted brain-workplace analogies.