Ms Catherine Malabou
Faculties, departments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Humanities
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
- Penrhyn Road
Visiting Professor in Modern European Philosophy
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
After studying at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the Ecole Normale Supérieure at Fontenay Saint-Cloud, I passed the "agrégation" of Philosophy and wrote my PhD at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes under the supervision of Jacques Derrida. I then became a Maître de Conférences at the University of Paris-Nanterre.
I was appointed as a professor of philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University in 2011. In 2016, I was appointed at the University of California at Irvine in Comparative Literature and European Languages and Studies. This one semester chair is the one previously attributed to Jacques Derrida.
Qualifications
- PhD Paris Ehess 1994
- Habilitation Thesis University of Strasbourg 2003
- Former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure Saint-Cloud
- Agrégation of Philosophy
Domains
For many years I have explored the concept of plasticity. Starting with the philosophy of Hegel (Hegel is the first philosopher to confer plasticity the dignity of a concept), I extended my research to contemporary neurobiology, in which plasticity is a central concept. Neural plasticity designates the ability of the brain to shape itself under the influence of experience, education and culture, but also of accidents and trauma. In my book The New Wounded, I proposed a re-reading of Freud in the light of the most recent neuro-psychoanalytic studies and redefinition of traumatic events.
More recently, I was interested in speculative realism and wrote a book (After Tomorrow, Epigenesis and Rationality, 2016). My last book (Columbia UP, 2019) is Morphing Intelligence, From IQ Measurement to Artificial Brains.
Publications
Effective altruism in between right-wing and left-wing anarchisms
Malabou, Catherine, 2022, Telos (2022), 198 pp 9-22, Published
Nowe kierunki w heglizmie. Rozmowa z Catherine Malabou = Interview with Catherine Malabou: new directions in Hegelianism
Malabou, Catherine, 2022, Praktyka Teoretyczna, 2(44) pp 73-86, Published
To quarantine from quarantine: Rousseau, Robinson Crusoe, and ‟I”
Malabou, Catherine, 2021, Critical Inquiry (47), S2, Published
Earning to give
Malabou, Catherine, 2020, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies (31), 3 pp 12-20, Published
The animal rationale that is Jacques Derrida: a response to "Of Biodeconstruction"
Malabou, Catherine and Shread, Carolyn, 2019, Postmodern Culture (29), 1, Published
The brain of history or the mentality of the Anthropocene
Malabou, Catherine, 2017, Chemical Communications (116), 1 pp 39-53, Published
Philosophers, Biologists, Philosophers, Biologists: Some More Effort If You Wish to Become Revolutionaries! Response to Norman MacLeod
Malabou, Catherine, 2016, Critical Inquiry (43), 1 pp 200-206, Published
Before and above: Spinoza and symbolic necessity
Malabou, Catherine, 2016, Critical Inquiry (43), 1 pp 84-109, Published
L'intelligence des ordinateurs
Malabou, Catherine, 2015, Art Press, 39 pp 213-216, Published
One life only: Biological resistance, political resistance
Malabou, Catherine, 2015, Critical Inquiry, Published
The Crowd
Malabou, Catherine and Wasserman, Dashiell, 2015, Oxford Literary Review (37), 1 pp 25-44, E-pub ahead of print
Phantom limbs and plasticity: Merleau-Ponty and current neurobiology
Malabou, Catherine, 2015, Chiasmi International (17) pp 41-52, Published
Une seule vie: resistance biologique, resistance politique
Malabou, Catherine, 2015, Esprit, 1 pp 30-40, Published
Sujet: femme
Malabou, Catherine, 2014, De(s)générations, 21 pp 29-42, Published
Is retreat a metaphor?
Malabou, Catherine, 2014, Journal of Friction and Wear (25), 50 pp 35-42, Published
Can we relinquish the transcendental?
Malabou, Catherine, 2014, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy (28), 3 pp 242-255, Published
The king's two (biopolitical) bodies
Malabou, Catherine, 2014, Representations (127), 1 pp 98-106, Published
Education should be a right for all
Dixon, Paul, Favretto, Ilaria, Finn, Peter, Smart, Jackie, Spencer, Philip, Stockhammer, Engelbert, Stuart, John, Suess, Eleanor, Giaxoglou, Korina, Goldsmith, Carlie, Hallward, Peter, Hawkins, Sue, Swift, Allan, Upstone, Sara, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Wells, Julian, Wilson, Scott, Haywood, Peter, Higginbottom, Andrew, Ichijo, Atsuko, Isaac, Marina, Jensen, Meg, Kayyali, Reem, Kettyle, Ann, Lambrou, Marina, Latimer, Amanda, Linton, Marisa, Lipsedge, Karen, Malabou, Catherine, O Maoilearca, John, McQuillan, Martin, Micklethwaite, Paul, Morgan Wortham, Simon, O'Brien, Catherine, Blackburn, Robert, Botting, Fred, Brady, Mary, Osborne, Peter, Pinnock, Winsome, Piper, Jason, Choat, Simon, Chu, Jonathan, Cinpoes, Radu, Coultas, Valerie, Dines, Martin, Caygill, Howard, Chadwick, Howard, Chanter, Tina, Roberts, Mike, Rogers, David, Sandford, Stella, Searby, Michael, Siddiki, Jalal Uddin, Ponto, Maria, Raphael, Sam, Reid, Trish, Agnew, Eadaoin, Alliez, Eric and Auerbach, Paul, 2014, The Guardian, Published
Negativity, unhappiness or Felicity: on Irigaray's dialectical culture of sexual difference
Malabou, Catherine and Ziarek, Ewa Plonowska, 2012, L'Esprit Createur: a critical quarterly of French literature (52), 3 pp 11-25, Published
Souffrance cerebrale, souffrance psychique et plasticite
Malabou, Catherine, 2011, Etudes: revue de culture contemporaine (414), 4 pp 487-498, Published
Like a sleeping animal: philosophy between presence and absence
Malabou, Catherine, 2011, Centaurus, 2 pp 79-89, Published
Modification in being and time, or the form of difference
Malabou, Catherine, 2010, Vital and Health Statistics, Series 1: Programs and Collection Procedures (31), 2, Published
Qué es formar el cuerpo?
Malabou, Catherine, 2010, Papel Maquina: revista de cultura, 5 pp 31-36, Published
How is subjectivity undergoing deconstruction today? Philosophy, auto-hetero-affection, and neurobiological emotion
Malabou, Catherine, 2009, Qui Parle (17), 2 pp 111-122, Published
A Conversation With Catherine Malabou
Malabou, Catherine and Vahanian, Noelle, 2008, Journal For Cultural And Religious Theory (9), 1, Published
Plasticity and elasticity in Freud's beyond the pleasure principle
Malabou, Catherine, 2007, Diacritics (37), 4 pp 78-86, Published
History and the process of mourning in Hegel and Freud
Malabou, Catherine, 2001, Radical Philosophy, 106 pp 15-20, Published
Morphing intelligence: from IQ measurement to artificial brains
Malabou, Catherine (2019). New York: (Columbia University Press) [Published]
Metamorphoses de l'intelligence: que faire de leur cerveau bleu?
Malabou, Catherine (2017). Paris, France: [Published]
Before tomorrow: epigenesis and rationality
Malabou, Catherine and Shread, Carolyn (2016). [Published]
Avant demain: épigenèse et rationalité
Malabou, Catherine (2014). Paris, France: [Published]
Self and emotional life: philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience
Johnston, Adrian and Malabou, Catherine (2013). New York, U.S.: [Published]
Ontology of the accident: an essay on destructive plasticity
Shread, Carolyn and Malabou, Catherine (2012). Cambridge, U.K.: [Published]
The new wounded, from neurosis to brain damage
Miller, Steven and Malabou, Catherine (2012). Bronx, USA: [Published]
Changing Difference, The Feminine And The Question Of Philosophy
Malabou, Catherine and Shread, Carolyn (2011). Cambridge UK: [Published]
La Plasticidad en Espera
Malabou, Catherine (2011). Santiago de Chile: (Palinodia) [Published]
The Heidegger change. On the fantastic in philosophy
Skafish, Peter and Malabou, Catherine (2011). New York, U.S.A.: (SUNY Press) [Published]
Plasticity at the dusk of writing: dialectic, destruction, deconstruction
Malabou, Catherine (2010). New York, U.S.A.: (Columbia University Press) [Published]
Sois mon corps: Une lecture contemporaine de la domination et de la servitude chez Hegel
Malabou, Catherine and Butler, Judith (2010). Paris, France: [Published]
La chambre du milieu: de Hegel aux neurosciences
Malabou, Catherine (2009). Paris, France: [Published]
La Grande Exclusion. L'Urgence Sociale: Therapeutique et Symptomes
Malabou, Catherine and Emmanuelli, Xavier (2009). Paris, France: (Bayard Publishing) [Published]
What should we do with our brain ?
Rand, Sebastian and Malabou, Catherine (2008). New York, U.S.: (Fordham University Press) [Published]
The future of Hegel: plasticity, temporality, and dialectic
Malabou, Catherine (2005). New York, U.S.A.: [Published]
Counterpath: traveling with Jacques Derrida
Wills, David, Malabou, Catherine and Derrida, Jacques (2004). Stanford, U.S.: [Published]
Anarchism, philosophy and the state today: a conversation
Balibar, Étienne and Malabou, Catherine (2022). Kingston upon Thames, U.K.: CRMEP Books pp 163-186 [Published]
Cynicism and anarchism in Foucault's last seminars
Malabou, Catherine (2022). In: Osborne, Peter, (eds.), Kingston upon Thames, U.K.: CRMEP Books pp 146-162 [Published]
Otherness as a kind of being: a reading of Plato‘s Sophist
Malabou, Catherine (2022). In: Osborne, Peter, (eds.), Kingston upon Thames, U.K.: CRMEP Books pp 133-145 [Published]
Is psychic phylogenesis only a phantasy? New biological developments in trauma inheritance
Malabou, Catherine (2018). In: Sharvit, Gilad, Feldman, Karen S., (eds.), New York, U.S.: pp 177-198 [Published]
"Idealism": a new name for metaphysics : Hegel and Heidegger on a priori synthesis
Malabou, Catherine (2017). In: Gabriel, Markus, Rasmussen, Anders Moe, (eds.), Berlin, Germany: pp 189-202 [Published]
Power and performance at play: a question of life or death
Malabou, Catherine (2017). In: Street, Anna, Alliot, Julien, Pauker, Magnolia, (eds.), London, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan pp 127-138 [Published]
Transcendental epigenesis
Malabou, Catherine (2017). In: Morgan, Anthony, (eds.), Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, U.K.: pp 239-252 [Published]
Go wonder: subjectivity and affects in neurobiological times
Malabou, Catherine (2013). In: Johnston, Adrian, Malabou, Catherine, (eds.), New York, U.S.: pp 1-72 [Published]
Post-trauma: towards a new definition?
Malabou, Catherine (2012). In: Cohen, Tom, (eds.), Michigan, U.S.A.: Open Humanities Press pp 226-238 [Published]
Is confession the accomplishment of recognition? Rousseau and the unthought of religion in The Phenomenology Of Spirit
Malabou, Catherine (2011). In: Zizek, Slavoj, Crockett, Clayton, Davis, Creston, (eds.), New York, U.S.A.: Columbia University Press pp 19-30 [Published]
You be my body for me: body, shape, and plasticity in Hegel's Phenomenology Of Spirit
Butler, Judith and Malabou, Catherine (2011). In: Baur, Michael, Houlgate, Stephen, (eds.), Oxford, U.K.: pp 611-640 [Published]
De la transparence cerebrale comme eclipse du temps
Malabou, Catherine (2010). In: Fleischer, Alain, (eds.), Paris, France: Seuil [Published]
Le destin social de la selection naturelle: comment choisir sans intention d'eliminer ?
Malabou, Catherine (2010). In: Prochiantz, Alain, (eds.), Paris, France: Odile Jacob - College de France pp 227-242 [Published]
Trace psychique et trace synaptique parlent-elles la meme langue?
Malabou, Catherine (2010). In: Magistretti, Pierre, Ansermet, Francois, (eds.), Paris, France: Odile Jacob pp 51-72 [Published]
Bouche cousue: de l'homeostasie [With sealed lips. On homeostasis]
Malabou, Catherine (2009). In: Pontbriand, Chantal, (eds.), Paris, France: [Published]
L'eternel retour et le fantome de la difference
Malabou, Catherine (2009). In: Pornschlegel, Clemens, Stingelin, Martin, (eds.), Berlin, Germany: [Published]
Swan lake: bleu comme les neurones
Malabou, Catherine (2009). In: Bernard, Christian, Davila, Thierry, (eds.), Paris, France: pp 126-133 [Published]
Addiction and Grace Preface to Felix Ravaisson's Of Habit
Malabou, Catherine, Carlisle, Clare and Sinclair, Mark (2008). In: Ravaisson, Felix, Carlisle, Clare, Sinclair, Mark, (eds.), London: [Published]