Monday, February 16, 2026

Text-as-Tool




Two million words distributed across twenty thousand pages constitutes not a blog but a substantial literary and theoretical corpus, equivalent to approximately ten to twenty conventional academic monographs depending on formatting density, illustration ratio, and disciplinary conventions of word count per published page. Within humanities publishing standards, where a scholarly book typically ranges from eighty thousand to one hundred thousand words, the Socioplastics archive represents the output of a prolific lifetime compressed into seventeen years of continuous production, unaided by institutional presses, editorial subsidies, or the legitimating apparatus of academic publishing. The correction is essential and fundamentally reframes the entire enterprise.