... 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...

... “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 describes the multiple meanings of neural plasticity in scientific research, as well as the use of plasticity to account for scientific findings of brain difference by sex and class. The chapter identifies the difficulties with conceptualizing and measuring human sameness...

...Worlds of Biotechnological Promise <italic>and</italic> the Plasticity of Self <italic>and</italic> Power ...

... The hot-pink address of Gerwig’s Barbie (2023) calls to and intensifies viewer experiences of plasticity—molded by the demands of femininity, woman-identified viewers are practiced in adapting and molding themselves in response to the white male gaze reflected in the shaping of consumer...

... differences that mark Brazilian health care and argues that the appropriation of bodily plasticity is an integral aspect of the ways in which social hierarchies of race, class or gender are renegotiated in Bahia. The chapter sets the scene ethnographically and methodologically and maps out the book’s...

... attributes to aesthetics as freedom's guide along habit's interrupted pathways. artificial intelligence aesthetics intelligence plasticity guided freedom ...

... 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...