Synopses & Reviews
Catherine Malabouand#39;s concept of plasticity has influenced and inspired scholars from across disciplines. The contributors to
Plastic Materialitiesandmdash;whose fields include political philosophy, critical legal studies, social theory, literature, and philosophyandmdash;use Malabouand#39;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
Review
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Plastic Materialities is an important collection, both substantial and engaging. Brenna Bhandar and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller give the work of Catherine Malabou the careful consideration it deserves.andquot;
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Synopsis
The contributors to
Plastic Materialities explore the ways in which Catherine Malabouand#39;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.
About the Author
Brenna Bhandar is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, SOAS, at the University of London.
Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaiand#39;i. He is the author of The Limits to Union: Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgmentsand#160; vii
Introduction. Staging Encounters / Brenna Bhandar and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller 1
1. Will Sovereignty Ever Be Deconstructed? / Catherine Malabou 35
2. Whither Materialism? Althusser/Darwin / Catherine Malabou 47
3. From the Overman to the Posthuman: How Many Ends? / Catherine Malabou 61
4. Autoplasticity / Alain Pottage 73
5. Plasticity, Capital, and the Dialectic / Alberto Toscano 91
6. Plasticity and the Cerebral Unconscious: New Wounds, New Violences, New Politics / Catherine Kellogg 111
7. andquot;Go Wonderandquot;: Plasticity, Dissemination, and (the Mirage of) Revolution / Silvana Carotenuto 133
8. Insects, War, Plastic Life / Renisa Mawani 159
9. Zones of Justice: A Philopoetic Engagement / Michael J. Shapiro 189
10. Law, Sovereignty, and Recognition / Brenna Bhandar and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller 209
1. Something Darkly This Way Comes: The Horror of Plasticity in an Age of Control / Jairus Grove 233
12. The Touring Machine (Flesh Thought Inside Out) / Fred Moten 265
13. Interview with Catherine Malabou 287
Bibliography 301
Contributors 325
Indexand#160; 329