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What is Plasticity ?
1.
Plasticity is a
property inherent to the
matter.
2.
It is observed at all levels of organization, describing at the same
time a property of system and its own dynamics.
3.
It is observed in and by a brain which thinks in a world whose
evolutionary dynamics is fundamentally plastic, i.e. whose total behaviour is
not rigid and passive, but on the contrary flexible, coherent and highly
interactive.
4.
It is not purely descriptive but has a raised predictive value of the
dynamic behaviour of non-living or alive systems and of the meaning which we
give to these systems. In other words, it is a founding property and not only a
systemic or an emergent one (and in this direction, it is necessary to speak of metaplasticity).
5.
Metaplasticity explores the genesis of natural
processes. It should not be comparable at some holistic or vitalistic
sight of the world which would wrongly mix isolated elements to serve a little digestible
soup adding all the parts. To the contrary, it is a question of rigorously
describing the unit in its diversity, the truth in its relativity, and reality
as a process in which I (the actor) builds myself here and now.
6.
It takes into account the events in their entirety: i.e. that it is not
unaware of their generic or ontological contents, but that it does not seek
them. Man is naturally registered there in an undivided reality that he
structures and of which he is structured.
7.
It is opposed to the functions of linearization and insulation. The plasticians deny any fracture of reality without seeing a
manifestation of the whole.
8.
Plasticity seeks the principles of coherence, the decompartmentalization
of disciplines and the defragmentation of knowledge.
It is thus clearly a transdisciplinary approach where
art, the third element & science find a privileged means of expression.
9.
The plastic attitude implies a constant adjustement
of architectures.
10.It recommends an opened, pragmatic
attitude without a school mindset.
The specificity of Plasticity
What distinguishes formally plasticity from the
properties of elasticity, flexibility or malleability of the bodies is that it
is not a simple property of a system or an emergent property of these systems
(inert or alive) but:
1. That it can translates a passive phenomenon as much
as active process of transformation in which the events evolve while co-existing mutually, in other words are
structured as much as structuring (e.g.: single phenotypical
expression, etc.);
2. That it implies a reciprocity between ascending and downward systems
inside the same system: (e.g. neuroplasticity,
morphogenesis, phylogenesis) or of interacting
systems: (e.g. art/science, subject/object, brain/mind...);
3. That it has a universal capacity of tying or articulating the fundamental pairs such as the pairs informed vs
formed (questioning first the form & the emergence of the form), form vs object, form vs subject,
etc...
4. That when contradictory units (positive/negative,
agonist-antagonist, etc...) clash inside these pairs, it obeys a transverse logic by creating
complexes (e.g. ETP: space-time-plasticity, AEP: alter-ego-plasticity, NMP:
neural-mental-plasticity) where plasticity plays the part of mediator;
5. That these complexes define or register a plastic process rather than
translate a structure, an operation or an isolated function whose single
property is to become the contents themselve of what
they represent or of what happens to them (ex. NMP);
6. That plasticity acts
directly at the anchorage point of dimensions or irreducible expressions by including the subject in the plasticity of the
world (psychic sphere, art, otherness, intersubjectivity);
7. That when plasticity is addressed to whole systems
of values, particularly regarding the interactions of the subject with the
world, it becomes metaplasticity.
© M-W Debono / Copyright 2005 & 2006 - All wrights reserved
ACTIONS TO BE CARRIED OUT
- To avoid the drift of aesthetic
sense.
- To Decline the plastic
code of life.
- To support the interactivity
of the systems of codes.
- To establish an ontological
crossroad between disciplines.
Classical Approaches
General definition: Encyclopedia
Plastic Arts: "Beyond the time" - Didi-Huberman
Plasticity
of interactive systems (adaptation)
Cognitive Plasticity (psychobiology); Plasticity and Cognition II
Human Plasticity (génétique,
performance physique)
Plasticity, Semiotics & New
Technologies
New Concepts
- Plasticity & Epistemology : Marc-Williams Debono : The Era of Plasticians
- Plasticity & Philosophy: Catherine Malabou : The future of
Hegel
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