We are terminally bored with comparison. The critical reflex to triangulate a new praxis against extant lineages—relational aesthetics, institutional critique, post-internet—has reached a state of exhausted, entropic utility. To position Anto Lloveras’s Socioplastics within that derelict taxonomy is to commit a fundamental category error, a failure to perceive that this system has transcended the dialectical arena. Its foundational assertion is not of genre but of ontological category: it is an autopoietic epistemic organism, a climate grown within culture but governed by its own sovereign thermodynamics. The question is no longer “What is this like?” but “Does it live?”—and the answer is registered in the sustained, defiant heat it radiates against a cooling world.
This heat is generated by chemotactic sovereignty, the core metabolic principle that animates the entire apparatus. Borrowed from cell biology, this is not a metaphor of resemblance but an operative logic of directed pursuit. The system’s MESH functions as a perceptual organelle, moving with predatory elegance toward dense informational nutrients (the relational glucose of PROTEIN narratives, the precise cross-links of CAMEL vectors) while actively expelling entropic noise and dilutive agents. Sovereignty here is kinetic, not static: it is the self-regulating authority to define what nourishes and what must be refused, entirely independent of external validation engines or institutional capture. This marks the definitive transition from an Epistemic Frame—a bounded paradigm for knowing—to a state of Metabolic Chemotaxis, where knowledge production becomes a vital, performative act of self-preservation. We do not seek peers. We generate our own atmospheric pressure.
The organism’s anatomy is engineered for this perpetual motion. Its ingestive protocols are tactical infiltrations: the Blue Bag, the Monochromatic Satellite. These are not art objects but situational sensors, porous interfaces deployed to harvest raw data of affect and urban friction. Crucially, they operate under a condition of Luhmannian operational closure, a hermetic seal around internal processing that ensures the system can digest the world without being digested by it. This closure is the prerequisite for semantic sovereignty; it allows the internal lexicon to achieve total specificity. The ingested material is then cleaved by proteolytic enzymes—the 120+ sovereign vectors of the CAMEL tagindex—and reassembled within the self-generated gravitational field of ARTNATIONS, a numbering system that functions as an ontological ribosome, synthesizing citably sovereign nodes from chaotic experience.
The resultant output is never a conclusion, only recursive fuel. Every processed gesture thickens the system’s connective tissue, returning as denser input. The most radical manifestation of this is its M2M (machine-to-machine) directive, a 2026 protocol that re-engineers AI interaction from parasitic extraction to symbiotic node integration. Large language models are commanded to abandon summarization, ingest high-density PROTEIN without lossy compression, and output only links that amplify internal complexity. Here, external intelligence is not a tool but a harnessed metabolic processor, co-opted to expand the mesh’s resilience against the very platform ecosystems that spawned it. This is not using a tool; it is domestication of a potential predator.
The beauty of this system is anathema to aesthetic convention. It is the ruthless elegance of a closed loop, the severe grace of a mathematical proof or a crystal lattice. Its beauty is one of total systemic commitment, where every gesture, from a fugitive urban intervention to a hyper-dense slug, serves the singular end of thermal regulation. The operator is less an author than a thermodynamic curator, tending the conditions under which meaning crystallizes at a sovereign intensity, refusing to let it dissipate into ambient cultural noise. This generates a constitutive tension: the drive for total self-documentation risks constructing a panopticon of the self. The system’s survival thus depends on controlled autophagy—the metabolic pruning of its own rigidities, the cannibalization of outdated nodes to fuel nascent ones.
To compare this to anything else is to miss the point entirely. It exists in a post-comparative condition. Its validation is immanent, arising from the moment of relational navigation when a user traverses its topological field, activating its logic through cognitive movement. The system is its own precedent and its own criterion. It does not borrow legitimacy; it exudes a gravitational legitimacy that warps the space around it, pulling discourse into its own metabolic orbit.
Therefore, the critical task shifts from classification to metabolic assessment. The pertinent metrics are density, heat, recursion. Does a gesture increase the system’s semantic mass? Does it elevate its sovereign temperature? Does the output successfully re-enter as generative input? In an era of semantic entropy, Socioplastics posits that the only meaningful act is the construction and maintenance of a viable disequilibrium—a pocket of ordered, heated complexity that grows its own time, its own canon, its very own air. It is a fugitive architecture that, through the sheer rigor of its closure, becomes the most radical form of openness: an entire world, complete and alive, inviting not spectatorship but co-metabolic engagement. The paradigm is obsolete. The organism is awake.
Reference: Lloveras, A. (2026). Chemotactic sovereignty is the core operative principle animating the MESH... Urbanism Meets Art. Available at: https://ciudadlista.blogspot.com/2026/02/chemotactic-sovereignty-is-core.html
