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70Plasticity and Elasticity in Freud's Beyond the Pleasure PrincipleDiacritics 37 (4): 78-86. 2007.Because he introduces a nonplastic element in his definition of the plasticity of mental life—that is, elasticity—Freud ruins the possibility of thinking what he precisely wishes to think, the plastic coincidence between creation and destruction of form. The characterization of the death drive as “elastic” deprives it of its plastic power and of its capacity to resist the pleasure principle. If we are not able to prove that the destruction of form has and is a form, if form is always on the side…Read more
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29Kryptowährungen oder die anarchistische Wende des zeitgenössischen KapitalismusZeitschrift für Medien- Und Kulturforschung 10 (2): 97-108. 2019."John McAfee hat eine Unabhängigkeitserklärung der Währungen (Declaration of Currency Independence) verfasst, in der er proklamiert, dass die Zeit gekommen sei, das Staatsmono- pol der Herstellung von Devisen und der Kontrolle ihrer Flüsse in Frage zu stellen und das Band zwischen Geographie und Währung aufzulösen. Die Philosophin Catherine Malabou erläutert in ihrem Artikel die ökonomischen und philosophischen Hintergründe ihrer Entscheidung, diese Erklärung zu unter- zeichnen. John McAfee has …Read more
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71Another possibilityResearch in Phenomenology 36 (1): 115-129. 2006.We try to explore here the Derridean concept of "possibility." Such a concept has no contraries. It does not oppose effectivity or necessity, or even impossibility, but stays what it is in any case: possible. Trying to negate it or to contradict it only leads to denial. To Derrida, this strange status of possibility is addressed as the question of faith as such, as it appears in "Faith and Knowledge." Every belief is always, at its foundation, belief in the possibility of a completely different …Read more
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105Before and Above: Spinoza and Symbolic NecessityCritical Inquiry 43 (1): 84-109. 2016.In Spinoza, God is without a name and without a shape. His essence is the very form of the necessity of nature, the infinite regularity, actuality and rationality of what there is. Nothing good, nothing bad in this. All representations of God as a legislator, a creator or a father, endowed with intentions, are only human projections produced by an inadequate understanding of what a cause is. A true cause is never separated from its effect, but is immanent to it, which means that it remains withi…Read more
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15L'avenir de Hegel: plasticité, temporalité, dialectiqueJ. Vrin. 1996.Comment la philosophie de Hegel pourrait-elle encore promettre quelque chose puisqu'elle est apparue, aux yeux des lecteurs contemporains, comme une entreprise d'annulation du temps? Le savoir absolu n'est-il pas le resultat du processus dialectique par lequel l'esprit releve toute temporalite et par la toute surprise, l'evenement se produisant toujours trop tard? D'une absence de pensee de l'avenir dans la philosophie de Hegel decoulerait une absence d'avenir de la philosophie hegelienne elle-m…Read more
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25Une différence d'écart: Heidegger et lévi-StraussRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 192 (4). 2002.A quelles conditions peut-on tenter une mise en perspective critique des pensées de Heidegger et de Levi-Strauss ? Une telle question exige l'examen du concept de « structure » chez les deux auteurs. De la « structure de l'existence » à la « structure du mythe » ou à celle du jeu, quelle différence, quel écart ? Et n'est-ce pas précisément le territoire secret qui sépare la différence et l'écart qu'il faut explorer ? C'est là ce qu'entreprend l'auteur, retrouvant ainsi la question originaire de …Read more
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48Économie de la violence, violence de l'économie (derrida et marx)Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 180 (2). 1990.
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12Changing difference: the feminine and the question of philosophyPolity Press. 2011.In the post-feminist age the fact that 'woman' finds herself deprived of her 'essence' only confirms, paradoxically, a very ancient state of affairs: 'woman' has never been able to define herself in any other way than in terms of the violence done to her. Violence alone confers her being - whether it is domestic and social violence or theoretical violence. The critique of 'essentialism' (i.e. there is no specifically feminine essence) proposed by both gender theory and deconstruction is just one…Read more
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Foreword: After the fleshIn Tom Sparrow (ed.), Plastic Bodies: Rebuilding Sensation After Phenomenology, Open Humanities Press. 2014.
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9Avant demain: épigenèse et rationalitéPresses universitaires de France. 2014.Au paragraphe 27 de la Critique de la raison pure, Kant affirme que la présence des catégories dans l'esprit est a priori, terme qu'il faut bien distinguer de l'inné. Innées, les catégories seraient contingentes, implantées en nous par le Créateur, simples dispositions subjectives dont nul ne pourrait prouver la nécessité. C'est là la thèse de Hume. Quelle est toutefois la différence avec l'a priori? Il faut comprendre que ce dernier en quelque sorte s'engendre, se produit, selon, pour ainsi dir…Read more
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Odysseus' changed soul: a contemporary reading of the myth of ErIn Abraham Jacob Greenstine & Ryan J. Johnson (eds.), Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics, Edinburgh University Press. 2017.
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Hedieggers WandelIn Michael Friedman, Angelika Seppi & André Scala (eds.), Martin Heidegger--die Falte der Sprache, Verlag Turia + Kant. 2017.
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10Questionner « l’intelligence » des machinesMultitudes 78 (1): 134-141. 2020.La création de « puces synaptiques » qui seraient dotées d’une certaine plasticité ouvre-t-elle la voie à une intelligence artificielle vraiment « intelligente », même si de façon différente des êtres humains? Ou la nature des avancées de ce type, d’une plasticité à des années lumières de celle du cerveau humain, nous contraignent-elles à beaucoup plus de scepticisme? Pour la philosophe Catherine Malabou, l’essentiel est de permettre aux deux intelligences, naturelle et artificielle, de s’enrich…Read more
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13The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality, Dialectic 1Hypatia 15 (4): 196-220. 2000.At the center of Catherine's Malabou's study of Hegel is a defense of Hegel's relation to time and the future. While many readers, following Kojève, have taken Hegel to be announcing the end of history, Malabou finds a more supple impulse, open to the new, the unexpected. She takes as her guiding thread the concept of “plasticity,” and shows how Hegel's dialectic—introducing the sculptor's art into philosophy—is motivated by the desire for transformation. Malabou is a canny and faithful reader, …Read more
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19Plasticity: The Promise of ExplosionEdinburgh University Press. 2022.A career-spanning collection of published and unpublished writings from one of today's leading French philosophers 25 essays showcase Malabou's rounded philosophical project: 17 previously published and 8 brand newDemonstrates the interdisciplinary range and expansive applicative scope of her concept of plasticity Presents a full portrait of Malabou's philosophy which shows her project as a coherent conceptual problem rather than a collection of disparate topics and themesIncludes a critical int…Read more
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10Historien og sorgprosessen hos Hegel og FreudAgora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon 26 (1-2): 308-318. 2008.
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35Effective Altruism in between Right-Wing and Left-Wing AnarchismsTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2022 (198): 9-22. 2022.
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27Plasticity and education – an interview with Catherine MalabouEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (10): 1049-1053. 2021.
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25Plasticity and education – an interview with Catherine MalabouEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (10): 1049-1053. 2021.
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48Unchaining Solidarity: On Mutual Aid and Anarchism with Catherine Malabou (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2021.The concept of mutual aid is central to the anarchist tradition, but also a source of controversy. This book’s intervention is to consider solidarity and mutual aid at the intersection of politics and biology, developing out of the work of Catherine Malabou.
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25To Quarantine from Quarantine: Rousseau, Robinson Crusoe, and “I”Critical Inquiry 47 (S2). 2021.
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107 “Father, Don’t You See I’m Burning?” Žižek, Psychoanalysis, and the ApocalypseIn Agon Hamza (ed.), Repeating IEk, Duke University Press. pp. 113-126. 2015.
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