This critical-creative manifesto outlines and ostends the parameters of the plastic literary text in light of the contemporary neuro turn. It argues that literary composition is, and has always been, plastic — the brain’s synaptic firings and neuronal pathways distinguishable in poetic and prosaic technique, represented in the whiteness of the page via experimental methods such as fragmentation, repetition, and spatial notation. This manifesto asserts that it is plastic form that affords the literary text the critical potential to articulate the material world in all its pluralities — synthesising, modulating, repairing, and executing the connections between people, language, and things.
Keywords: neuroscience; plasticity; manifesto
