The enemy concept fuses agency and passivity in a plastic unity
Evidence
- Here emerges, perhaps, what can be called, after Malabou, the “plasticity” of the enemy as the “originary unity of agency and passivity, of spontaneity and of receptivity” (Malabou, L’avenir de Hegel, 249). The enemy, one could say, is “plastic”-that is to say also, explosive. It would demand therefore what Malabou refers to as an “explosive reading.” — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 856
Categorization
- DEFINE: Introduces Malabou’s notion of the enemy’s ‘plasticity’ as the originary unity of agency and passivity — a precise conceptual tool worth retaining.
- XREF: connects to: the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: How Ourselves, the True, and Every Other Are Built from War”