The audio version of Catherine Malabou's inaugural address at Kingston University. Malabou presents a hypothetical dialogue between the Continental philosopher( Foucault) and the cognitivist Thomas Metzinger. She reads Foucault's "What is Enlightenment" against Thomas Metzinger's Being No One: The Self Model Theory of Subjectivity. Malabou uses her signature concept of 'plasticity' to argue for a renewed engagement between continental philosophy and the neurosciences. While the concept of plasticity seems almost voluntaristic when compared to the Metzinger's radical destabilizing of the subject, Malabou ends with showing the paradoxical link between "being no one" and "plasticity.

For Malabou
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2012/02/catherine-malabou-continental-philosophy-and-the-brain-towards-a-critical-neuroscience/

For Metzinger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mthDxnFXs9k