plasmatic

1. (figurative) Malleable or flowing like plasma.Examples: "Buckley's voice(s) ooze like plasma[…]forming a sort of honeycomb of vocal jouissance[…]Wilhelm Reich believed mysticism was a sublimated longing for orgasm's 'cosmic plasmatic sensations'. Buckley literally sculpted an entire song out of orgasm[…]"; "Among the extraordinary features of the process of plasmatic modification, those are especially worthy of note that pertain to homogeneous terms of affection from which powers are subtracted."; "Vesovic says his basic feeling about his former friend [sc. Karadzic] was ‘that you can mould him into what you need, that he didn't have [any] moral fibre, or even a mental strength, that he was kind of plasma, that he was a plasmatic being.’ Is the International Tribunal in the process of moulding this plasmatic being into yet another form, one that can support a contemporary set of desires to attribute super-human capacities to him, and thereby avoid coming into contact with a more mundane, but also more complex and demanding, reality?"Synonyms: plasmaticalfigurativelynot-comparable

2. (film, more specifically) Involving the transformation from one form to another; metamorphic.Examples: "This dual function should be no surprise, for, as Eisenstein argues of animated films featuring plasmatic metamorphosis It's natural to expect that such a strong tendency of the trransformation of stable forms into forms of mobility could not be confined solely to means of form: this tendency exceeds the boundaries of form and extends to subject and theme."; "From these points, we can construct a model for analysing how animation's 'plasmatic' capacity to shape and mould both existing and future (better or darker) worlds might be applied across deep ecological, posthuman and social-ecological perspectives:"; "Plasmatic characters are most radically in evidence in the early cartoon shorts of Disney, but even in the relatively realist feature films, plasmatic moments and characters still occur, and may be significant when they do."not-comparable