Catherine Malabou – Film and Death

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29/04/2025

New date: Session 3 of our Reading Group on Catherine Malabou’s “Destructive Plasticity”

Due to unforeseen reasons, session three of our Reading Group on Catherine Malabou’s “Destructive Plasticity” has been postponed to May 5, 2025 (17h–18h UTC+1/WEST). SESSION THREE: BEYOND THE MESSIANIC: AUTOAFFECTION, HETEROAFFECTION – Monday, May 5, 2025 (17h–18h UTC+1/WEST) How can philosophical notions like “plasticity” and “affect” build bridges between continental philosophy and neurobiology? Why is […]

11/03/2025

Reading Group on Catherine Malabou’s “Destructive Plasticity”

Catherine Malabou first arose to prominence in the International philosophical landscape in the 1990s, thanks to her groundbreaking interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel’s system as one revolving around plasticity, which eventually became the key concept of her own philosophical production. Itself a plastic concept, plasticity (“the nature of that which is ‘plastic’, being at once […]

03/10/2024

NEW Reading Group on Malabou’s “Destructive Plasticity” – Spring 2025

Catherine Malabou is mostly known as the philosopher of plasticity, a concept she drew mainly from her groundbreaking interpretation of Hegel. Not only “the nature of that which is ‘plastic’, being at once capable of receiving and of giving form”, plasticity is also the destruction of form as its non-transcendental condition of possibility. “Destructive plasticity” thus concerns the […]

01/10/2024

Marco Grosoli’s new open-access article explores Plasticity in Rivette’s Film Criticism

This article shows the productiveness of “plasticity” (a concept famously developed by French philosopher Catherine Malabou) for cinema, by using Jacques Rivette’s film criticism as a detailed case study. In several greatly influential writings (which have, among others, decisively contributed to the formation of the French New Wave), Rivette relied on an interpretation of Hegel’s philosophy […]