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SUMMARY:ÌÇÐÄTV Seminar for Interdisciplinary French Studies - Benjamin D
 alton
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DESCRIPTION:Benjamin Dalton (Birmingham) Relaxing with Catherine Malabou:
  Approaches to letting go in philosophy and neuroscience This paper will
  explore themes of relaxation\, letting be\, and letting go in the work 
 of the contemporary French philosopher Catherine Malabou. Writing at the
  intersections of philosophy\, neuroscience\, and other diverse discipli
 nes\, the concept at the core of Malabou’s work is that of plasticity: t
 he ways in which the body and brain are ‘plastic’\, and thus radically m
 utable and transformable. Malabou’s work is concerned with the question 
 of how we might activate or embrace this plasticity for socio-political 
 change and emancipation. One of responses to this ‘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 elaboration 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\, the
 y invoke or induce a radical state of self-abandonment or self-shatterin
 g (of the body\, brain\, spirit) at play in Malabou’s accounts of profou
 nd transformation and metamorphosis. In his book La Soltura del cuerpo (
 2018)\, Cristóbal Durán analyses what he refers to as ‘la soltura’ in Ma
 labou’s account of the plastic body and brain\, which might translate fr
 om the Spanish as ‘ease’\, ‘release’\, ‘setting free’\, but also ‘skill’
 . Durán here draws upon instances where Malabou describes plasticity thr
 ough a lexis of release or letting go. Meanwhile\, Malabou herself write
 s 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 gentleness\, Malabou stresses
 \, is not the kind of relaxation we find in neo-liberal approaches to me
 ditation\, mindfulness\, yoga\, etc.\, but an altogether more fundamenta
 l and radical instance of letting go. Bringing together these ideas from
  Malabou\, Durán\, and Dufourmantelle\, I want to extend these theorisat
 ions of relaxation across three other interlocutors: the French Buddhist
  monk Matthieu Ricard (Cerveau et Méditation\, 2017)\, who brings philos
 ophy\, meditation\, and neuroscience together\; the architects and philo
 sophers Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins\, who design built environment
 s which relax and transform the body\; and experimentations with psyched
 elics in the pursuit of neural and socio-political transformation in the
  movement known as ‘acid communism’. I ask: what technologies and practi
 ces (medical\, architectural\, spiritual\, etc.) might induce the kinds 
 of relaxation present in Malabou’s philosophy? What practical implicatio
 ns and potentials would these states have for the body and mind? And wha
 t forms of socio-political transformation might these states of relaxati
 on bring about? Benjamin's paper will be followed by a Response from Oli
 ver Davis\, Professor of French Studies\, ÌÇÐÄTV. To join the seminar o
 n Teams click here.
LOCATION:Online via Teams
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 chcurrent/
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