Total plasticity and recomposability evacuate narrative’s capacity to generate care
Evidence
But this is the problem — a film whose reality is this plastic, this recomposable, is simply impossible to care about on any level. … Since anything can and will change soon, why bother to care about what is happening now? — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 761
Categorization
- SEED: An essay angle: how the logic of always-revisable corporate memory (git rebase, streaming re-edits, remasters) erodes investment in any fixed version of culture.
- XREF: connects to: Data abstractions strip narrative context to enable unlimited recategorization — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 448; Plasticity is understood as a verbal and conceptual schema; Plasticity requires the dissolution of the thinking subject rather than its ratiocinative control — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1249 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Plasticity is understood as a verbal and conceptual schema
#expands(0.80) - Data abstractions strip narrative context to enable unlimited recategorization
#expands(0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 448 - Plasticity requires the dissolution of the thinking subject rather than its ratiocinative control
#expands(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1249 - Hybridity theory replaces totalizing narratives with contingent local petits recits
#complicates(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 913 - Plasticity names the unity of spontaneity and receptivity in giving and receiving form
#expands(0.72) - Plastic individuality mediates between sculptural and philosophical plasticity.
#expands(0.72) - Destructive plasticity forms identity through deconstitution, not preservation
#corroborates(0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 202