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In this encounter, Malabou elaborates on the implications of a dynamic understanding of plasticity and on what such implications could mean for our traditional approaches to subjectivity. Exposing biology to the symbolic enables care to arise as a central concern in ways that resist concepts of writing, code, or trace. Far from reproducing ideological paradigms and promoting efficiency, productivity and flexibility, a plastic ethos encourages a heightened attention to what lies beyond limits, opening the way for a liminal exploration of differences.
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Malabou, C., Alliot, J., Street, A. (2017). Thresholds of Resistance: Between Plasticity and Flexibility. In: Street, A., Alliot, J., Pauker, M. (eds) Inter Views in Performance Philosophy. Performance Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95192-5_14
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