آفاق سينمائية
Volume 12, Numéro 2, Pages 267-279
2025-12-15
Aftersun And The Plasticity Of Time: Malabou’s Neurophilosophy Of Memory And Societal Precarity
Authors : Naoumi Mohammed .
Abstract
As the transition toward the twenty-first century exhibits a world marked with societal and economic uncertainties, Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun (2022) takes the mission to capture and monitor such a change. This paper resorts to Malabou’s theory of neuroplasticity to examine how the film imbeds what she calls destructive plasticity. Aesthetically, a fragmented narrative, joined with temporal dislocations, reflects much of the memory, trauma, and identity concerns of the time. As a result, the film serves as an alarming call for awareness on how individuals have become doomed to bend and dissolute under societal pressures. Yet, constructive plasticity makes it possible for them to find empathy to reconciliate with others, based on the accumulation of experiences. This ultimately enables them to seek healing and understanding through recollection, selection, and acceptance of positive change.
Keywords
Aftersun ; destructive plasticity ; constructive plasticity ; trauma ; neoliberal precarity
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