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Neuroplasticity, Historicity, and Mediation

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Response – Featured Image © Articulations / M. Schwindt (AI assistance: Firefly Image 3)

Chunjie Zhang – 2024

The French philosopher Catherine Malabou's discussion of neuroplasticity reveals the brain's ability to form connections, make changes, and repair damages. These functions, construing the brain's historicity as a biological process, also qualify plasticity as mediation between different forms of life. Plasticity thus also offers resistance against socioeconomic reification and capitalist exploitation. Malabou's neurophilosophy envisions a biological globalism that empowers everyone with the potential to change individual lives and society. I draw on her neurophilosophy to understand the discussion of spirituality and Asian philosophy in German modernism.

Title
Neuroplasticity, Historicity, and Mediation
Publisher
EXC 2020 Temporal Communities
Location
Berlin
Keywords
Article; RA 1: Competing Communities
Date
2024-12-20
Appeared in
Articulations
Type
Text
Coverage
This publication is the result of work carried out in Research Area 1: Competing Communities.

How to cite:
Chunjie Zhang. 'Neuroplasticity, Historicity, and Mediation'. Articulations (December 2024): https://doi.org/10.60949/at2z-dq55.