The modern moment is defined by three determinations of plasticity
Evidence
This process confers a specifically modern character on substance-subject’s movement of ‘seeing (what is) coming’. In virtue of the three determinations of plasticity, the modern moment (1) presupposes a certain form (self-consciousness in its relation to speculative content); (2) corresponds to a particular notion of self-determination (the subject in relation to its accidents); and (3) determines a certain modality of hypotyposis, i.e. the translation of the spiritual into sensuous form. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 649
Categorization
- DEFINE: Enumerates the three determinations of plasticity that constitute the modern moment: presupposed form (self-consciousness), self-determination (subject/accidents), and hypotyposis (spiritual into sensuous form).
- XREF: Ties plasticity to hypotyposis — the translation of spiritual into sensuous form — a bridge toward concrete/material instantiation that resonates with brain work as spiritual form made sensuous. — connects to: Positing the future as plasticity displaces the future’s definition as a moment of time; Plasticity’s three determinations structure the modern character of self-consciousness and its self-determination. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 649; Plasticity spans a graded range from determination to freedom — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 67 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Plasticity’s three determinations structure the modern character of self-consciousness and its self-determination.
#expands(0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 649 - Positing the future as plasticity displaces the future’s definition as a moment of time
#expands(0.80) - Plasticity designates at once the capacity to receive and to bestow form.
#qualifies(0.80) - Plasticity holds original form and full self-transformation together
#expands(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 259 - Plasticity spans a graded range from determination to freedom
#expands(0.72) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 67