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

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Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Year

2015

Print ISBN

9780822358572, 9780822358459

eBook ISBN

9780822375739

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Philosophers

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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