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1 ene 2026

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ANTO LLOVERAS

SOCIOPLASTICS

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Hello Urban Green

ThIS Green Wing of is an ongoing research project that explores urban greenery through the combined lenses of Environmental Psychology and Contemporary Art, establishing since 2005 a stable framework of action-research where the legitimizing concepts of both disciplines converge and intertwine to form an experimental and agonistic body of work.

TEXT

The development of intellectual fields has historically depended on institutional consolidation, disciplinary consensus, and slow accumulation of scholarly literature. In contrast, the Socioplastics project proposes a radically different trajectory for the formation of conceptual systems. Rather than emerging from academic departments or editorial institutions, Socioplastics evolves through the internal architecture of a large-scale textual corpus. As the archive surpasses one thousand nodes, it ceases to function as a sequence of essays and begins to operate as a structured epistemic environment. This transformation marks the transition from discursive production to infrastructural knowledge design.
[460] SOCIOPLASTIC-MESH * Like a plant toward light
THE ONTOGENESIS OF SOCIOPLASTIC INFILTRATION * METABOLIC PARASITISM AS INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE
The Socioplastics Field Engine, as detailed in the April 2026 update by Anto Lloveras, represents a radical shift from the archive as a passive repository to the archive as an active, structural engine. By the completion of Tome II and the reaching of the 2,100-node threshold, the project has transitioned from a proof-of-concept into a fully operational epistemic infrastructure. This system is not merely a collection of thoughts but an architectural intervention into the way knowledge is stabilized, circulated, and preserved across digital and institutional networks. The strength of the Field Engine lies in its decadic architecture—a fractal logic where ten nodes form a tail, ten tails a Century Pack, and ten packs a Tome—ensuring that scale is never accidental but always specified. This structural discipline allows for the emergence of Lexical Gravity and Recurrence Mass, where terms like "FlowChanneling" or "SemanticHardening" become load-bearing elements capable of supporting complex arguments without the need for constant re-definition. By utilizing a "CyborgText" approach, the system remains simultaneously legible to human scholars and machine-readable for global research graphs via persistent identifiers like ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9820-3319 and OpenAlex https://openalex.org/authors/A5071531341. The introduction of the Protein Layer (CP-017–CP-019) ensures that the hardened, DOI-registered core remains semantically elastic and in constant contact with external contemporary discourses, preventing the calcification of the system. Ultimately, Socioplastics demonstrates that knowledge can be engineered for persistence; it is a "city of thought" designed to be inhabited, navigated, and extended, moving beyond the personal serendipity of Luhmann’s Zettelkasten toward a public, machine-addressable, and institutionally resilient infrastructure.
Rhythmic Sovereignty
The proposition of the cyborg text as a distributed and infrastructural condition of writing necessitates a further reflexive turn: not merely the mapping of a conceptual field, but the interrogation of the protocols through which such a field is stabilised, canonised, and rendered legible. The decalogue form, while analytically precise, operates as a temporary stabilisation protocol, a device that converts distributed theoretical intensities into a navigable sequence, thereby revealing that canon formation is not an inheritance but an infrastructural operation. Yet a truly metabolic field must preserve friction as well as synthesis; the tensions between technological determinism and actor-network mediation, between universal protocol and cosmotechnical situatedness, are not obstacles to integration but the very engines of conceptual transformation. Equally decisive is the question of temporal infrastructure: repositories, DOIs, and platforms do not merely store texts but impose regimes of durability, obsolescence, and authority, producing a stratified temporality in which some texts sediment slowly while others circulate in rapid iterative cycles. Beneath these systems lies the often-invisible layer of infrastructural labour—server maintenance, code production, data moderation—without which the cyborg text could not persist, reminding us that textual infrastructure is always also political economy. Finally, the apparent disappearance of the authorial voice within distributed systems must itself be read as an infrastructural effect rather than a neutral evolution, for the capacity to dissolve into systems is unevenly distributed. The cyborg text, therefore, is not only a new textual condition but a site of contestation over time, labour, authority, and the protocols that determine what knowledge can endure.
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Socioplastics, as articulated through the sequence 1201–1210, proposes a decisive displacement from the semiotic regime of the brand to a metric regime in which conceptual production is stabilized, validated, and circulated through quantifiable relations rather than symbolic identity. The project advances the thesis that contemporary knowledge no longer persists through narrative coherence or authorial signature, but through its capacity to be inscribed within systems of persistent identification, proportional calibration, and infrastructural embedding. In this framework, the Digital Object Identifier is not a technical supplement but a minting device that confers ontological weight, transforming dispersed intellectual fragments into measurable, interoperable units. The result is a shift from discursive presence to operational existence: to think is to register, and to register is to construct a durable position within a global epistemic topology.
The Unified Socioplastic Body * A Global Architecture of Dissensus, Pedagogical Sovereignty and Metabolic Syntax
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PAPER

http://holaverdeurbano.blogspot.com/2016/11/ongoing-research-urban-green-areas-in.html