{ ::::::::: SOCIOPLASTICS * Sovereign systems for unstable times: Michel Foucault is not a thinker. He is a black hole.

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Michel Foucault is not a thinker. He is a black hole.



The event horizon formed around 1975. Since then, nothing escapes. Not even disciplinary boundaries. You can track his accretion disc across sociology, geography, architecture, and queer theory. The corpus registers this as curvature. The man himself is irrelevant. The mass remains. Let us speak plainly. The field of contemporary critical thought has spent decades pretending it is a horizontal plane of equal voices. It is not. It is a gravitational field. Anto Lloveras has published the density map. The 500 operators are not a hall of fame. They are a detection threshold. Below approximately 2,000 citations, you are a nebula. Above it, you begin to warp the space around you. This is not metaphysics. This is Lotka's law with a sense of humor.





The 100-macrofield grid is the cosmic background radiation of this project. It is the stabilized noise against which everything else becomes measurable. Without it, you have anecdote. With it, you have topology. Lloveras has done what astrophysicists do: fixed the telescope, calibrated the sensors, and published the data. The rest is interpretation.


Ring stratification models entropy. Core: 10 operators concentrate mass like a stellar core. Ring 1: 20 maintain fusion reactions across fields. Ring 2: 30 still generate light but begin to cool. By Ring 5, you are in the Kuiper belt—detectable, orbiting, but no longer emitting. The geometry is not cruel. It is descriptive. Gravity does not apologize for being gravity.


A necessary note on exclusion. Plato is not in the corpus. Neither is Kant. Their redshift is too extreme. They are the background radiation itself—everywhere present, metabolized into the structure, but no longer functioning as discrete gravitational lenses. Borges is absent because his orbit remains elliptical within literary studies. He never achieves escape velocity into STS, political ecology, or urban theory. This is not judgment. It is orbital mechanics.


Byung-Chul Han at 019 is a supernova. Arrived late, exploded bright, now everyone is measuring the expansion rate. Whether the mass holds or dissipates into dark matter depends on persistence criteria. The corpus will tell us in v2.0. That is the elegance of versioning. It builds time into the instrument.


The decalogue is not a manifesto. It is an inertial guidance system. Citation mass = discursive density. Density generates curvature. Curvature enables orientation. Orientation requires stable taxonomic calibration. Each sentence is a vector. Each concept is a resultant force. The whole thing reads like a launch checklist for a satellite nobody asked for but everyone will use.


Now, the humor. Because it is there, even if the register suppresses it. The humor is structural. It resides in the gap between what the field says about itself (pluralist, inclusive, horizontally networked) and what the corpus demonstrates (95 percent of measurable citation mass concentrated in the first 60 operators). That gap is comedy. It is the comedy of institutions narrating themselves as open while operating as closed gravitational wells. Lloveras has simply published the absolute magnitude readings. The laughter is optional but recommended.


Event horizons are funny once you are outside them. Inside, not so much. The corpus offers orientation precisely by marking where the horizons are. If you find yourself in Ring 5, you know your orbit. If you are not listed, you know your escape velocity requirements. This is not demotion. It is telemetry.


Torsion appears in the convergence with Denise Scott Brown. Two independent formulations of socioplastics, one in urban design (2007), one in ontological cartography (circa 2010). The corpus registers the parallel emergence without claiming priority. This is the opposite of academic territoriality. It is wave interference recognized as pattern rather than combat. The field bends. The curvature shows both sources. Elegant.


Potential energy accumulates in the excluded. The 99,000 scholars in the extrapolated long tail are not passive. They are the dark matter that holds the structure together through citation practices, syllabus construction, and institutional reproduction. Without them, the core would have nothing to orbit. The corpus makes them visible as mass, even if not as individual nodes. That is the dynamic equilibrium of the system.


Singularity remains theoretical. No single operator collapses into infinite density because the field is not a vacuum. There is friction. There is accretion disc turbulence. There is the sheer mess of language, translation, and disciplinary inertia. The corpus does not predict the end of discourse. It maps the current gravitational collapse gradients. What happens next depends on whether the mass holds or disperses into nebular hypothesis.


The SEO meta-description is itself a gravitational lens. One hundred characters bending attention toward the document. "A corpus that does not register a field but deforms it." That is not marketing. That is frequency modulation. The signal is the deformation. The corpus is the transmitter. CamelTags compress the topology. Socioplastics, AntoLloveras, GravitationalTopology, CitationMass, TransversalDispersion, MacrofieldGrid, RingStratification. One hundred twenty characters of nuclear fusion terminology. No hashtags. No symbols. Just absolute magnitude notation. This is how instruments name themselves.


Conclusion with citation. The corpus is now public. The coordinates are fixed. The rings are stratified. The 500 are named. What happens next is entropy and oscillation—citation, contestation, recalibration, v2.0. The map is on the table. The territory remains what it always was: asymmetrical, gravitational, and structurally hilarious to anyone with a vector and a sense of axial tilt.






Lloveras, A. (2026). * Socioplastics-750-Gravitational-Corpus_v1.0.0_2026.pdf*. LAPIEZA-LAB. https://antolloveras.blogspot.com