Catherine Malabou's concept of plasticity has influenced and inspired scholars from across disciplines. The contributors to Plastic Materialities—whose fields include political philosophy, critical legal studies, social theory, literature, and philosophy—use Malabou's innovative combination of post-structuralism and neuroscience to evaluate the political implications of her work. They address, among other things, subjectivity, science, war, the malleability of sexuality, neoliberalism and economic theory, indigenous and racial politics, and the relationship between the human and non-human. Plastic Materialities also includes three essays by Malabou and an interview with her, all of which bring her work into conversation with issues of sovereignty, justice, and social order for the first time.
Contributors. Brenna Bhandar, Silvana Carotenuto, Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, Jairus Victor Grove, Catherine Kellogg, Catherine Malabou, Renisa Mawani, Fred Moten, Alain Pottage, Michael J. Shapiro, Alberto Toscano
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Staging Encounters / Brenna Bhandar and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
- 1. Will Sovereignty Ever Be Deconstructed? / Catherine Malabou
- 2. Whither Materialism? Althusser/Darwin / Catherine Malabou
- 3. From the Overman to the Posthuman: How Many Ends? / Catherine Malabou
- 4. Autoplasticity / Alain Pottage
- 5. Plasticity, Capital, and the Dialectic / Alberto Toscano
- 6. Plasticity and the Cerebral Unconscious: New Wounds, New Violences, New Politics / Catherine Kellogg
- 7. “Go Wonder”: Plasticity, Dissemination, and (the Mirage of) Revolution / Silvana Carotenuto
- 8. Insects, War, Plastic Life / Renisa Mawani
- 9. Zones of Justice: A Philopoetic Engagement / Michael J. Shapiro
- 10. Law, Sovereignty, and Recognition / Brenna Bhandar and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
- 11. Something Darkly This Way Comes: The Horror of Plasticity in an Age of Control / Jairus Grove
- 12. The Touring Machine (Flesh Thought Inside Out) / Fred Moten
- 13. Interview with Catherine Malabou
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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