- PLASTICITES SCIENCES ARTS -

Transdisciplinary Review of Human Plasticity

Since Greek antiquity, plasticity (root: plassein) has referred to the working and modelling of materials, the taking on, the creation of or giving birth to form. The verb plastir, introduced in the French literature during the 19th century has the same significance and is the origin of the name of our new review, PLASTIR, in which the various attributes of plasticity are explored. The most frequent, often misdirected and ambiguous assignment of meaning to this term, is that of a soft and passive elasticity. In contrast, we seek contributions that emphasize the dynamics of plasticity which have been occulted or misunderstood due to their very universality. The fundamentally bijective character (plasma-magma) of the plastic process is not exhausted by a simple change or deformation of shape, but takes part in the genesis and the final, definitive emergent product, whether of art or science. PLASTIR seeks to bring out the instantiation of this dialectic, looking beyond aesthetic constraints towards a new semantics of plasticity. It is directed at increasing the intelligibility of the world in the sense of its unfolding from space-time to biodiversity to human plasticity, as in the myth of Epimetheus.

The PLASTIR review will cover the fields of arts, sciences and philosophy, in particular their epistemological paradigms. Its ambition is to constitute a Plasticities-Sciences-Arts (PSA) archive of publications on the concept of plasticity, made up by regular contributions from its members and guests, with the objective of achieving appropriate recognition of plasticity as an object of research. A common problem is that many authors use the term plasticity purely as a metaphor, or, on the contrary, in a limited specific, contextual and generic sense. The critical aspects of the concept are not really addressed - namely, whether a purely systemic property or a foundational one is involved. We suggest strongly that the second acceptation is the correct one. This implies that plasticity is not an isolated function, but corresponds to the structure of interactive processes in general. In this way one can take into account both the informational content of the moulded forms of the materials involved and their energetic contradictorial interaction with the plastic process. The approach results in revaluing not only the content of plasticity - the substrate of the term as process - but also the container - the signified of the form, the metaplasticity of the conscious human subject and the consequent attitude that it may generate in today's society.

Synopsis

Presentation of the authors & the papers accessible while clicking on the n° of Plastir concerned

Number 1 (06/2005)

The NON-MODel and its MODeLS - First Part : FroM the EGYPTIANS TO LUTHER by Elie BERNARD-WEIL

tHE relation TO THE work of art : INEXPRESSIBLE Presence AND Irreductible FEELING by Lili De VOOGHT

CAN ONE SPEAK ABOUT THE BIOLOGY OF THE PERSON ? by Pierre KARLI,

The truth is not Found by simple rEflexion by Dominique LAPLANE

Number 2 (11/2005)

Artistic Concept of multisensoriAl courses for DISABLED people by Isabelle CHEMIN

My grand-mother is twelve thousand year old by Khaled AIT-HAMOU,

THE NON-MODEL AND ITS MODELS (First Part) : Answer to Net surfers by Elie BERNARD-WEIL,

Henri BOSCO, a Writer from our time by Roger BUIS

Number 3 (04/2006)

Towards an architectural Plasticity by Charlie FRICAUD

Dreaming about the universe : WHEN art et scIEnce converge… by Anne-Marie POCHAT & Jean-Pierre LUMINET

CREATIVITY, AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF THE PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE DEVELOPPEMENT by Madeline DERIAZ

ARTISTIC EDUCATION, PRACTISES OF VISUAL ARTS (OR PLASTIC ARTS) AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPPEMENT by Madeline DERIAZ

Number 4 (09/2006)

Camille Arambourg, The last of the ‘encyclopedists’ naturalists of the 20^th century by Djillali HADJOUIS

VIRTUOSITY : A NEW APPROACH TO INSTRUMENTAL PRACTICE by Hélène JACQUET

The BBB (Burned by blue) EFFECT (First part) by Ana Leonor MADEIRA RODRIGUES

Sens & Knowledge : the place of the consciousness of the subject in a scientific training course by Mariana LACOMBE

Number 5 (12/2006)

Science and Art : at the doors of the interior space by Ilke Angela MARECHAL

HOW ONE BECOMES SCIENTIST AND POET by Georges FRIEDENKRAFT

STYLE ET SPIRIT OF THE FRENCH HAIKOUS by Georges FRIEDENKRAFT

The BBB (Burned by blue) EFFECT (Second part) by Ana Leonor MADEIRA RODRIGUES

Number 6 (03/2007)

musicality of the platic work of victor vasarely by par Frédéric ROSSILLE

« WIDENED » TERRITORIES: DISTRIBUTIONS AND COMPLEX TOPOLOGIES COMPLEXES OF VIRTUAL REALITY by Louis-José LESTOCART

CHILDHOOD AND PLASTICITY by Mariana LACOMBE-LOISEL

INTER AND INTRASEMIOTICITY IN THE work of JULES VERNE by Lionel DUPUY

Number 7 (06/2007)

FIRST ELEMENTS FOR A TRANSDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUE ON THE CONCEPT OF WISDOM by Mariana LACOMBE-LOISEL

NICOLAS AUGUSTE POMEL: A naturalist and a mODERNIST of the ALGERIan paleontology from the 19^th century by Djillali HADJOUIS

vOUIR Or the EMANCIPATION of a POLYPHONIc thinking by Frédéric WALLICH (alias Wall°ich), Frédérique BRUYAS & Pascal MARZAN

THE BBB (BURN BY BLUE) effect (Third part) by Ana Leonor MADEIRA RODRIGUES

Number 8 (09/2007)

Scientific Research, Plasticity and Transdisciplinarity : a possible transdisciplinary chair in the universities by Mariana LACOMBE-LOISEL, Marc-Williams DEBONO, Patrick LOISEL, Paul GHILS and Ubiratan D’AMBROSIO

Temporal Ubiquity and Geographic Imaginary - a voyage in the centre of the earth… and in time - by Lionel DUPUY

Musical syntax and Plasticity since 1945 : new technologies, new writings by Nicolas DARBON

CollECTIVE INTELLIGENCE BY THE TALES - How to create together from the whole possible ? - by Marie-Noëlle Tournemain & Jean-Pascal debailleul

Number 9 (12/2007)

Morphogenesis : the form as it is deployed and it lives by Louis-José LESTOCART

About the learning elder ones: a contribution to demolish the myths that surround the old age by Madeline DERIAZ

Thinking time by Marc-Williams DEBONO

Dialogues of the hermeneutics or dialogues of the philosophies of the world by Jean-Yves LELOUP

Number10 (03/2008)

Can the man live happy without spirituality ? by Basarab NICOLESCU

the art at work - the metaphors of plasticity - by Patrica PROUST-LABEYRIE

Between Orenoque and Amazone : at the sources of the mythical eldorado - a geographical framework favourable with the imaginary traditional…and vernien – by Lionel DUPUY

Music, God and love by Michel CAZENAVE

Number 11 (06/2008)

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, the great thinker of the whole by Ilke Angela MARECHAL

The spectacle of the rider by Régine DETAMBEL

Philosophy and Society: ethical stakes by Mariana THIERIOT LOISEL, Ubiratan D’AMBROSIO & Marc-Williams DEBONO

henri BOSCO, storyteller « of provence and of the world» by Roger BUIS

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However, the review also accepts proposals of texts which are subjected to a reading panel from the PSA board.

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They only engage the responsibility of their authors, and cannot be reproduced or used without the preliminary written

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