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SUMMARY:Research seminar: Benjamin Dalton (Birmingham)\, Relaxing with Ca
 therine Malabou: Approaches to letting go in philosophy and neuroscience
 
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DESCRIPTION:This paper will explore themes of relaxation\, letting be\, a
 nd letting go in the work of the contemporary French philosopher Catheri
 ne Malabou. Writing at the intersections of philosophy\, neuroscience\, 
 and other diverse disciplines\, the concept at the core of Malabou’s wor
 k is that of plasticity: the ways in which the body and brain are ‘plast
 ic’\, and thus radically mutable and transformable. Malabou’s work is co
 ncerned with the question of how we might activate or embrace this plast
 icity for socio-political change and emancipation. One of responses to t
 his ‘how’\, I will argue\, is to do precisely with modes of relaxation\,
  letting be\, and letting go that are more or less latent in Malabou’s e
 laboration of plasticity. These modes of relaxation and release are not 
 to be confused with ideas of rest\, R&R\, stress-relief\, wellness\, etc
 .\; rather\, I argue\, they invoke or induce a radical state of self-aba
 ndonment or self-shattering (of the body\, brain\, spirit) at play in Ma
 labou’s accounts of profound transformation and metamorphosis. In his bo
 ok La Soltura del cuerpo (2018)\, Cristóbal Durán analyses what he refer
 s to as ‘la soltura’ in Malabou’s account of the plastic body and brain\
 , which might translate from the Spanish as ‘ease’\, ‘release’\, ‘settin
 g free’\, but also ‘skill’. Durán here draws upon instances where Malabo
 u describes plasticity through a lexis of release or letting go. Meanwhi
 le\, Malabou herself writes a preface to Anne Dufourmantelle’s Puissance
  de la douceur (2013)\, in which she praises the radical potentiality of
  Durfourmantelle’s concept of douceur\, softness or gentleness. This gen
 tleness\, Malabou stresses\, is not the kind of relaxation we find in ne
 o-liberal approaches to meditation\, mindfulness\, yoga\, etc.\, but an 
 altogether more fundamental and radical instance of letting go. Bringing
  together these ideas from Malabou\, Durán\, and Dufourmantelle\, I want
  to extend these theorisations of relaxation across three other interloc
 utors: the French Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard (Cerveau et Méditation\,
  2017)\, who brings philosophy\, meditation\, and neuroscience together\
 ; the architects and philosophers Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins\, wh
 o design built environments which relax and transform the body\; and exp
 erimentations with psychedelics in the pursuit of neural and socio-polit
 ical transformation in the movement known as ‘acid communism’. I ask: wh
 at technologies and practices (medical\, architectural\, spiritual\, etc
 .) might induce the kinds of relaxation present in Malabou’s philosophy?
  What practical implications and potentials would these states have for 
 the body and mind? And what forms of socio-political transformation migh
 t these states of relaxation bring about? Benjamin Dalton is Teaching Fe
 llow in French\, Sexuality and Gender at the University of Birmingham. H
 e received his PhD in French from King’s College London in 2020 with his
  thesis entitled: ‘Plasticity in Contemporary French Thought\, Literatur
 e and Film: Witnessing Transformations with Catherine Malabou’. He is cu
 rrently developing this research into a monograph. He has recently publi
 shed an article on plasticity in the writing of Marie Darrieussecq in Da
 lhousie French Studies (2020)\, a book chapter on queerness and plastici
 ty (2019)\, and an interview with Catherine Malabou in Paragraph (2019).
  His article\, ‘The Plastic Hospital: Catherine Malabou’s Architectural 
 Therapeutics’\, is forthcoming with Essays in French Literature and Cult
 ure (2021). He also recently co-organised both the online seminar series
  (2020-21) and the internal online 3-day conference (2021) ‘Contemporary
  Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities’. His research is now turnin
 g to the question of the clinic in contemporary French philosophy\, and 
 in particular is looking at how contemporary French philosophy can imagi
 ne new non-normative\, queer modes of healthcare and healthcare spaces. 
 Benjamin's paper will be followed by a Response from Oliver Davis\, Prof
 essor of French Studies\, ÌÇÐÄTV. To join the seminar on Teams click he
 re.
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