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This article examines the conflicting representations of plasticity and epigenetics in the work of philosopher Catherine Malabou and evolutionary theorists Mary Jane West-Eberhard and Eva Jablonka. In order to speak of a new biological ‘paradigm’ and to attribute values of novelty or inventiveness to life itself, Malabou has to suppress the unsettled debates within the life sciences. The aporias of evolutionary narrative and causality reveal a necessary differentiality and textuality that belongs neither to life nor science itself, but leaves a haunting remanence within every corpus. New materialism resists this necessity of life-science, which calls for a deconstructive reading.
本文考察了哲学家Catherine Malabou和进化理论家Mary Jane West-Eberhard和Eva Jablonka的作品中可塑性和表观遗传学的相互矛盾的表述。为了谈论一种新的生物学“范式”，并将新颖性或创造性的价值归因于生命本身，Malabou必须压制生命科学中尚未解决的争论。进化叙事和因果关系的漏洞揭示了一种必要的差异性和文本性，这种差异性和文本性既不属于生命，也不属于科学本身，但在每个语料库中都留下了挥之不去的余韵。新唯物主义抵制这种生命科学的必要性，它要求解构主义的解读。
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