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3Continuing her reflections on destructive plasticity, split identities and the psychic consequences experienced by those who have suffered brain injury or have been traumatised by war and other catastrophes, Catherine Malabou invites us to join her in a philosophic and literary adventure.
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3La science est-elle le sujet de la philosophie?Philosophique 20. 2017.J’entends ici vous faire part de deux expériences de lecture. La première est celle du texte d’Alain Badiou de 1969 publié dans les Cahiers pour l’analyse et intitulé « Marque et Manque : à propos du zéro », et où se trouve l’affirmation qui m’a donné mon titre : « La science est le sujet de la philosophie ». Ce texte est une réponse à celui de Jacques Alain-Miller, publié quelque années avant dans la même revue, et intitulé « La Suture : Éléments de la logique du signifiant ». Malgré le cont...
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28Contemporary Political Adventures of Meaning: What Is a Floating Signifier?Critical Inquiry 50 (2): 305-316. 2024.This text is the edited transcript of Catherine Malabou’s second Critical Inquiry visiting-professorship lecture at the University of Chicago in January 2022.
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26Contemporary Political Adventures of Meaning: What Is Hegemony?Critical Inquiry 50 (1): 54-66. 2023.This article, originally delivered as a lecture at the University of Chicago, is a critical reading of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics. Following Antonio Gramsci, their book reverses the meaning of the term hegemony. The traditional use of the term (for military or political leadership) shifts and gives birth to a new signification. Hegemony currently designates a privilege but a discursive one only. It is the privilege c…Read more
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9The Mental State of NoiseAngelaki 28 (3): 95-99. 2023.What is the influence of music on the brain? And in what cases can this influence cause dysfunctioning? Among the different examples analyzed by Oliver Sacks, one is particularly significant: the phenomenon of synesthesia. Synesthesia is connected to having an extra one that associates different kinds of sensory information, music, and color. It can sometimes transform hearing music as a painful experience, transforming it into a pure literal meaning – to feel together – the secret condition for…Read more
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42You Be My Body for Me: Body, Shape, and Plasticity in Hegel's Phenomenology of SpiritIn Stephen Houlgate & Michael Baur (eds.), A Companion to Hegel, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Catherine Malabou : “Unbind Me” Judith Butler : What Kind of Shape Is Hegel's Body in? Catherine Malabou : What Is Shaping the Body? Judith Butler : A Chiasm between Us, but No Chasm.
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11Changing 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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7Avant 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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4Questionner « 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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7The 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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16Plasticity: 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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3Historien og sorgprosessen hos Hegel og FreudAgora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon 26 (1-2): 308-318. 2008.
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34Effective Altruism in between Right-Wing and Left-Wing AnarchismsTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2022 (198): 9-22. 2022.
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22Plasticity and education – an interview with Catherine MalabouEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (10): 1049-1053. 2021.
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19Plasticity and education – an interview with Catherine MalabouEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (10): 1049-1053. 2021.
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45Unchaining 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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21To Quarantine from Quarantine: Rousseau, Robinson Crusoe, and “I”Critical Inquiry 47 (S2). 2021.
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97 “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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22Kryptowährungen 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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38Morphing Intelligence: From Iq Measurement to Artificial BrainsColumbia University Press. 2019.Acclaimed philosopher Catherine Malabou traces the modern metamorphoses of intelligence, seeking to understand how neurobiological and neurotechnological advances have transformed our present-day view. She emphasizes the intertwined, networked relationships among the biological, the technological, and the symbolic.
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28Philosophy in ErectionParagraph 39 (2): 238-248. 2016.Dialectics operates, Derrida writes, ‘in raising or erecting what falls’. Yet the Hegelian system is problematized in the sense that, in the Genet column of Glas, what substitutes for the system is not a well-grounded philosophical alternative, but a sort of disseminal substitution itself, working within as much as against the system it resists. The confrontation staged by the text is not between homosexual transgression, on the one hand, and heterosexual normativity as the origin of the social …Read more
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10Power and performance at play : a question of life or deathIn Anna Street, Julien Alliot & Magnolia Pauker (eds.), Inter views in performance philosophy: crossings and conversations, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 127-138. 2017.
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47“Idealism”: a new name for metaphysics Hegel and Heidegger on a priori synthesisIn Anders Moe Rasmussen & Markus Gabriel (eds.), German Idealism Today, De Gruyter. pp. 189-202. 2017.
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Plasticité, Rencontres du Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporainsRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 192 (1): 103-105. 2002.
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