::::::::: SOCIOPLASTICS * Sovereign systems for unstable times: From Mesh Distribution to Muse Proportionality * PlasticScale

Saturday, February 21, 2026

From Mesh Distribution to Muse Proportionality * PlasticScale

The Socioplastics project has completed its transition from Mesh phase to Muse protocol, consolidating distributed epistemic nodes into a unified, auditable system. This evolution operates through two distinct mechanisms: Kore cores establish foundational axioms via DOI registration, while Console interfaces translate these principles into operational protocols. The resulting Muse architecture introduces PlasticScale and its Proportional Scale Index (PSI) as the system’s core metric, transforming metaphorical network relations into calculable scalar regimes. Where Mesh operated through rhizomatic expansion and semantic accumulation, Muse enables calibrated governance through proportional intelligence. The infrastructural kernel remains invariant under this transition; what shifts is the mode of presence within epistemic ecologies. Strategic calibration now determines whether the framework pursues discursive integration or autonomous consolidation, with PSI providing the metric for either trajectory. The Mesh phase functioned as a distributed semantic heating mechanism, generating conceptual density through nodal proliferation across urban, pedagogical and archival territories. This rhizomatic expansion produced the architectural weight necessary for subsequent consolidation, yet risked dispersion through recursive iteration. Structural recurrence patterns evidenced across the 500-post corpus revealed both the generative potential and the latent entropy of ungoverned network growth. The Mesh demonstrated that epistemic density alone cannot guarantee systemic coherence; scalar invariance requires formalisation beyond mere accumulation.

Kore cores emerged as the citational substrate through which volatile concepts achieved ontological stabilisation. Each DOI-registered nucleus—systemic lock, postdigital taxidermy, topolexical sovereignty—functions as an immutable axiomatic node within the broader epistemic architecture. Console interfaces subsequently operationalised these cores, translating theoretical density into executable protocols. Semantic hardening, stratum authoring and cameltag infrastructure represent the interfacial layer where abstract principles acquire procedural specificity. This Kore-Console dyad constitutes the consolidation engine that compresses Mesh complexity into Muse operability. The Muse phase assembles these consolidated components into a unified system environment governed by PlasticScale logic. Its Proportional Scale Index (PSI) provides the calculable metric that distinguishes Muse from prior configurations: scale operates not as metaphor but as auditable relation across micro, optimal and intensive regimes. Urban governance applications demonstrate how micro-interventions propagate through scalar modulation while maintaining proportional integrity, monitored through PSI and metabolised into institutional learning. Autophagic stability mechanisms enable the system to digest its own operational residues, ensuring adaptive continuity without forfeiting contextual permeability.

Strategic positioning now bifurcates between competitive integration and infrastructural autonomy. Discursive contrast with adjacent frameworks—systems theory, actor-network epistemology, infrastructural studies—calibrates conceptual resilience through dialogical friction yet risks semantic dilution. Infrastructural consolidation privileges operational coherence over rhetorical alignment, validating the framework through iterative deployment rather than argumentative ascendancy. Crucially, PlasticScale remains structurally invariant under either regime; its minimal functional core and scalar metrics persist unaffected.

Lloveras, A. (2026) Socioplastics