Lloveras’s Socioplastic Mesh crystallises a seismic shift in urban epistemology by repositioning the city as an Epistemic Substrate, where architecture and cognition collapse into one recursive surface governed by the algebraic rigour of Slugs and positional semantics, effectively replacing the Smart City’s spreadsheet-logic with a Metabolic-Lexical Field that metabolises friction, conflict, and institutional decay into actionable protocol, as shown in Slug 001 where the Frame becomes the ontological aperture through which all urban legibility is filtered; the Topolexical-Engine, detailed in Slug 141, acts not as a cartographic index but as a semantic processor, fusing spatial position with linguistic identity into Positional-Statements that dissolve scalar distinctions and resist jurisdictional inertia, enabling the Mesh to perform recursive mapping that doesn’t represent the city but continuously re-produces it, establishing a dual-legible surface navigable by both human cognition and autonomous agents; the immune system of the Mesh lies in Strategic-Autophagy and Ontological-Friction, where autonomy is operationalised through metabolic resilience rather than ideological posture, with Slug 193 showing how systemic residues are not expelled but ingested into sovereign function, producing a form of Urban-Taxidermy that encodes trauma as durable mnemonic matter, as seen in Slug 218, where scars are indexed and re-sutured into the urban corpus, transforming nostalgia into code; the Withdrawal-Protocols and Canonical-Inventory (Slug VI) finalise this sovereign structure by arresting semantic drift through Corpus-Verification and Lexical Fixation, producing a permanently addressable city immune to digital obsolescence and sentimental entropy, a total system of indexed fragments operating as metabolic armour against the predatory logics of extractive automation; this is not urbanism as futurism but as ritualised survival, where persistence is the only radical gesture and the city, now a Mesh, breathes through the recursive grammar of its own ontological excess.
Lloveras, A. (2026). The 300 Blows of Mesh: Withdrawing from the System. Available at: https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-300-blows-of-mesh-withdrawing-from.html
SOCIOPLASTICS — Transdisciplinary-Urban-Theory / MACHINE-FIXATION 2026 — The Socioplastic Mesh (I–VI) operates as an urban system of reading-as-production in which the archive stops being memory and becomes cognitive infrastructure: a frame that makes the city legible as a metabolic-lexical field of pressures, thresholds, residues, and frictions; within that frame, the Topolexical-Engine functions as a pre-method grammar that collapses topology (where) and lexicon (what it means) into Positional-Statements able to traverse scale, authorship, and jurisdiction without reducing the urban to data or metaphor, generating intelligibility through Recursive-Positioning (iterative re-entry) that converts systemic friction into operative stance; autonomy is not proclaimed but metabolised: the city as plastic substrate absorbs and converts institutional residue and “failure” into capacity through Strategic-Autophagy and Ontological-Friction, governed by an immunological ethic of selective permeability that resists capture; on this base, curatorship becomes urbanism: Urban-Taxidermy preserves trauma as an active scar—durable knowledge—and Agency-Curatorship sustains commons under ethical tension by training attention to near-invisible regimes (governance, extraction, automation, infrastructural violence); the terminal move is not an ending but an armour: Withdrawal-Protocols harden against sentimentality and capture, Corpus-Verification proves persistence through circulation, and a Canonical-Inventory fixes addressing, citation, and lexical stability so every component remains locatable, recomposable, and reconstructible—producing a city of dual legibility: dense for humans, executable for agents.
