Plastic materialities : politics, legality, and metamorphosis in the work of Catherine Malabou / Brenna Bhandar and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, eds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bhandar, Brenna, 1973-

Goldberg-Hiller, Jonathan, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malabou, Catherine.

Philosophy of mind.

Adaptability (Psychology).

Brain--Philosophy.

Brain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>The contributors to <I>Plastic Materialities</I> explore the ways in which Catherine Malabou's new materialism and concept of plasticity can provide new insights into issues of race, colonialism, subjectivity, science, social order, sovereignty and justice. This collection also includes three new essays by Malabou and an interview.<BR></div>

Contents:

Staging encounters / Brenna Bhandar and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller

Will sovereignty ever be deconstructed? / Catherine Malabou

Whither materialism? Althusser-Darwin / Catherine Malabou

From the overman to the posthuman: how many ends? / Catherine Malabou

Autoplasticity / Alain Pottage

Plasticity, capital, and the dialectic / Alberto Toscano

Plasticity and the cerebral unconscious: new wounds, new violences, new politics / Catherine Kellogg

"Go wonder": plasticity, dissemination, and (the mirage of) revolution / Silvana Carotenuto

Insects, war, plastic life / Renisa Mawani

Zones of justice : a philopoetic engagement / Michael J. Shapiro

Law, sovereignty, and recognition / Brenna Bhandar and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller

Something darkly this way comes: the horror of plasticity in an age of control / Jairus Grove

The touring machine (flesh thought inside out) / Fred Moten

Interview with Catherine Malabou.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822358572

0822358573

9780822375739

0822375737

OCLC:

1143276117