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This article uses some of the complexities occasioned by the beings Anne McCaffrey envisioned as ‘shell people’ – cyborgs whose inert bodies are encased in titanium shells while the spaceships that surround them become bodies proper – in order to address some key theoretical issues with the relationship between Thought, embodiment and plasticity. It borrows from Catherine Malabou’s work on neuronal plasticity and cerebrality, as well as Deleuze and Guattari’s critical engagement with the brain and their de-hierarchicalised and decentred vision of body–brain/brain–body relations from  Cinema 2  and  What is Philosophy?  It brings these discourses into closer contact with machinic ‘assemblages’ in both Deleuze and Guattari’s sense, and one rather closer to posthuman interpretations of the term. It aims to rethink the ‘gest’ of such assemblages to consider the (oft excluded or repressed) place of the body in these kinds of becomings. It attempts to answer, ‘what happens to thought in a cyborg body?’ while at the same time considering how that thought is materially given greater complexity by the assemblage that constitutes it as something other than a molar unity.

What happens to thought in a cyborg body? On Brain ships, embodiment and posthuman gest