Keywords
Darwin
Althusser
social selection
plasticity
form
How to Cite
Abstract
The author uses Althusser's materialism of the encounter to rethink Darwinism and the relation between natural and social selection. According to popular misinterpretation, social selection, or social Darwinism, implies constant fighting and competition as a foundation of society. Malabou argues that social selection (mis)understood that way is rather a disciplinary mechanism, preventing the emanation of difference within a system. This cliché ignores the ateological and contingent character of selection as well as the "plastic condition" of organisms in Darwin's theory, which we miss in contemporary social reality.
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