The plastic operation is a new discursivity explosive enough to destroy centuries of discourse

Evidence

A first objection takes issue with the hypothesis of destructive plasticity and threatens to undermine its validity. Such plasticity, I have argued, has the power to form identity through destruction—thus making possible the emergence of a psyche that has vacated itself, its past, and its “precedents.” In this sense, such plasticity has the power of creation ex nihilo, since it begins with the annihilation of an initial identity. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 1495 (#expands, via linked claim)

18 Indeed, scarcely a month before, London-based artist Gustav Metzger had organized a Destruction Art Symposium at which Yoko Ono performed Cut Piece and Ralph Ortiz destroyed a piano. Other participants included the Austrians Otto Mühl and Hermann Nitsch, as well as several representatives of Fluxus, Al Hansen and Wolf Vostell. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1962 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The word ‘plastic’ spans from form-giving sculpture to the annihilation of form in explosives — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 227; Destructive plasticity creates new identity precisely through annihilation of the old — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 1495; The word plasticity etymologically spans both sculpting and explosion (+1 more)

Related

• A formal Destruction Art Symposium predated and possibly inspired Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable. (similarity 0.86)
• The word ‘plastic’ spans from form-giving sculpture to the annihilation of form in explosives (similarity 0.85)
• Destructive plasticity creates new identity precisely through annihilation of the old (similarity 0.85)
• Plasticity spans both the creation and the explosive annihilation of form. (similarity 0.83)
• Plasticity names the dialectical union of form-seizure and form-annihilation. (similarity 0.82)
• Plasticity spans both taking on form and annihilating it (similarity 0.81)
• Destructive plasticity forms identity through deconstitution, not preservation (similarity 0.80)
• Plasticity is ontological combustion that both births and annihilates presence (similarity 0.80)
• The word plasticity spans crystallization of form and annihilation of form (similarity 0.79)
• Substance’s actuosity is simultaneously creative and destructive power (similarity 0.79)
• Plasticity both solidifies and explodes a rigidified past (similarity 0.79)
• Plasticity spans the capacity to give form and to explode all form. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Destructive plasticity creates new identity precisely through annihilation of the old #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 1495
• The word plasticity etymologically spans both sculpting and explosion #expands (0.85)
• A formal Destruction Art Symposium predated and possibly inspired Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable. #exemplifies (0.70) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1962