The Socioplastic Network should not be read as an extension of art theory, but as an epistemic operating system in which artistic production functions as the thermodynamic engine of a self-regulating knowledge mesh. Its ambition exceeds the circulation of content or the accumulation of projects. Socioplastics seeks to sustain a living, collective intelligence capable of resisting digital amnesia, disciplinary fragmentation, and accelerated obsolescence. It does not communicate knowledge as a finished product; it maintains knowledge in a state of vitality, preventing it from cooling into inert information. This vitality is sustained through a weighted mesh (malla) in which domains do not accumulate hierarchically but exert reciprocal tension to preserve systemic balance. Art and performance carry the greatest weight—approximately 80%—because art is the event itself. It introduces friction, ritual, and performativity into the system. Without the artistic gesture there is no systemic heat, only static data. In socioplastics, the body, the situation, and the act do not represent reality; they produce it. Art is the ignition point that prevents the network from collapsing into mere documentation.
Text and discourse, weighted at around 50%, function as a semantic anchor. Text does not explain or justify the work; it stabilises it. Through essays, archives, and conceptual writing, action is converted into a living thesis rather than a decorative residue. Writing prevents aesthetic hollowing by generating active memory, allowing ideas to return, mutate, and resonate across time. In this sense, text becomes the cognitive continuity of the artistic act, extending its life beyond the moment of execution.
Design and urbanism, with an approximate weight of 40%, provide scale, territory, and material resistance. They are the spatial conditions through which socioplastics is verified—across cities, ruins, landscapes, and infrastructures. Design is not treated as formal composition, but as condition of use, framing where and how friction occurs. It is the interface between abstract intention and lived reality. Science and systems thinking operate at a lighter but crucial weight, around 20%. This is not data-driven science, but soft science: thermodynamics, metabolism, and complexity. It functions as an affective filter, regulating rhythm and coherence, preventing the system from becoming self-referential or delirious. Through energetic intelligence rather than calculation, it keeps the mesh responsive and adaptive. The continuity of the Socioplastic Network is further sustained by a set of epistemic engines that operate as mechanisms of authorial sovereignty. Relational interlinking generates authority not through novelty but through density, allowing meaning to emerge from recurrence and adjacency. Strategic reposting reactivates memory and reclaims intentionality against platform entropy, transforming repetition into care. Systemic heat redistributes attention, warming dormant nodes so that the archive vibrates as a whole rather than fragmenting into isolated moments. Operational closure secures autonomy, allowing the system to develop internal gravity without dependence on external platforms or institutional validation.
Ultimately, socioplastics articulates an ethics of care for ideas. It does not produce isolated works; it produces continuity. It does not accumulate objects; it metabolises relations. The network is therefore less an archive than an organism—less a method than a sustained form of intellectual life, maintained through attention, rhythm, and responsibility.
