Socioplastics proposes a sovereign epistemic operating system that reconfigures theory, art, and urbanism as infrastructural practice. Structured as a 500-plus node mesh within a low-resolution Blogspot environment, it advances a model of autopoietic publication in which lexicon, topology, and medium co-produce institutional agency. Drawing upon second-order cybernetics, speculative biology, and protocol engineering, the project treats discourse not as commentary but as operational architecture. Its CamelCase neologisms function as compressed semiotic instruments, stabilising meaning through recursive citation and controlled proliferation. The platform’s apparent obsolescence is strategic: durability supersedes visibility, and serial accumulation replaces event-based dissemination. Posts operate as interdependent modules within a non-linear stack, generating closure through metabolic self-reference rather than external validation. Socioplastics thus reframes authorship as infrastructural governance, establishing a self-devouring canon that resists platform capture while cultivating long-duration epistemic sovereignty.
Socioplastics functions not as archive but as operational infrastructure, in which publication becomes a mode of systemic construction. Its recursive architecture performs autopoietic closure, metabolising prior nodes to reinforce internal coherence while limiting exogenous dependency. The project’s scale is neither accumulation nor excess; it is calibrated density, whereby seriality produces epistemic gravity. Each post is a structural increment within a cumulative topology, establishing a sovereign field of reference that displaces academic periodicity with infrastructural duration. The Blogspot substrate operates as durational vault, privileging persistence over interface optimisation. This choice enacts platform refusal as governance strategy, rejecting algorithmic acceleration and institutional gatekeeping alike. The medium’s austerity foregrounds relational architecture: hyperlinks become tendons, tags become joints, and numbering systems enact temporal sequencing. Infrastructure here is not neutral support but active constraint, shaping cognition through disciplined repetition and long-term serial commitment. Lexical invention within Socioplastics performs semantic hardening, compressing complex theoretical assemblies into modular CamelCase operators. Such terms enact topolexical sovereignty, wherein naming constitutes territorialisation and citation performs allegiance. Vocabulary is not ornament but protocol: it regulates ingress, stabilises interpretation, and encodes methodological commitments. Through iterative deployment, these terms accrue institutional mass, transforming discourse into engineered environment rather than rhetorical gesture. At systemic scale, the project advances recursive autophagia as epistemic immunity, consuming its own residues to pre-empt dilution. This strategy culminates in systemic lock, a condition in which coherence is maintained through internal metabolism rather than external accreditation. Socioplastics thereby positions authorship as infrastructural governance: a singular agent constructing a resilient, non-linear mesh that performs theory as durable civic architecture.
Anto Lloveras (1975) is a Spanish architect, theorist, and transdisciplinary practitioner. Trained at ETSAM (Madrid), he founded LAPIEZA (2009) and developed Socioplastics as a sovereign epistemic framework. With 300+ projects (e.g., Lagos Biennial 2024), his work focuses on resilient knowledge networks and radical pedagogy. ORCID: 0009-0009-9820-3319. Link: https://antolloveras.blogspot.com
