... In this concluding chapter, Malabou engages with four central issues raised by many of the authors of this volume. These include: the role of philosophy today in light of plasticity; the ideological basis of scientific modeling and the manner in which it can challenge philosophical thinking...

... trauma psychoanalysis Malabou Freud Lacan ...

... Capital dialectic real abstraction Malabou Marx ...

... Malabou has proposed that we think plasticity as the “hermeneutic motor scheme” of our epoch, and fundamentally rethink our concept of change. Yet in spite of its attention to “ontological economy”, her work does not fully confront the challenge posed by the real (non-mental, non-philosophical...

... In her 2007 book Les Nouveaux blesses , Catherine Malabou stages an encounter between contemporary neuroscience and psychoanalysis that is without peer. She identifies a constituency she names as the “new wounded”; those whose brains are ineradicably changed as a result of brain damage...

... This chapter uses theories of autopoeisis as articulated by Niklas Luhmann to raise questions regarding the extent of our access to our environments, particularly the biological environment on which much of Malabou’s philosophy relies. Understood philosophically, poiesis demonstrates...

... This chapter introduces the philosophical work of Catherine Malabou and her signature concept of plasticity—the giving, receiving and exploding of form—as a new and restless ontology, one that characterizes for her the possibilities of philosophy, the metamorphic truths of our bodies and our...

... “God is dead”/”Writing is dead”/”Marx is dead” - this article draws the (im)possible perimeter of a confrontation between Neo-Hegelian plastic mourning, Deconstructive affirmation, and artistic experimentation. Reading ‘the end of history” in Catherine Malabou, the persistence of graphosphere...

... This chapter situates Malabou’s discussion of destructive plasticity in the history and politics of the cybernetics movement. The central theme is how the concept of control changes as humans become aware of the capacity to steer and shape the plasticity of the brain-body network. The chapter...

... This chapter reads Catherine Malabou’s “new scheme” of plasticity and her efforts to deconstruct the biology/ history divide as an important opportunity to revisit the human/ nonhuman distinction that has been repeatedly challenged yet continues to persist in critical theory. To do so, it makes...

... of neural matter. Doesn’t the emphasis on the brain reinscribe the executive and reproduce sovereignty? The concern is not only to reveal the political models of sovereignty condensed in Malabou’s model of brain function, but also for the genealogy of brain science that has always imagined a particular...

... This chapter inquires whether the “primitive,” which serves as both one structuralist insight that Malabou draws upon, and as a symbolic point around which colonialism patterns its own structures of symbolic meaning and violence, can be made vulnerable to the concept of plasticity. This question...

... This chapter stages an encounter (a “philopoesis”) between philosophical and literary enactments of the concept of plasticity, which are applied to a reading of Mathias Énard’s novel Zone (2010). After explicating three approaches to plasticity, those of Catherine Malabou, M. M. Bakhtin...