An intellectual field is not necessarily defined by a doctrine, a disciplinary perimeter or a definitive corpus of works. It can also be constituted by sustained operations: naming differences, assigning addresses to propositions, circulating those propositions among heterogeneous materials and returning to them under altered conditions. Socioplastics takes this latter form. Its documents, artistic practices, conceptual Markers, bibliographies, territories and essays occupy distinct positions within an interconnected archive, but none is required to become the final explanation of the others. Its internal architecture can be described through three simultaneous operations: relation, fixation and rotation. Relation establishes an encounter without assuming equivalence; fixation makes a conceptual difference identifiable and retrievable; rotation changes the interlocutors, contexts and scales through which that difference is examined. These operations are not successive stages leading to a completed theory. They coexist, recur and sometimes interfere with one another. What follows is an account of this existing practice: not a forecast of its reception, nor a programme prescribing its future results, but an examination of how a field can retain conceptual specificity while remaining open to recomposition.
