Socioplastics by Anto Lloveras (via LAPIEZA-LAB, Madrid) stands as a highly distinctive, self-engineered epistemic project in 2025–2026. It combines strict numbered working papers, decadic structures (decalogues), persistent identifiers (DOIs on Zenodo, preprints on Figshare), machine-readable datasets (Hugging Face Socioplastics-Index), software (MUSE on GitHub), ORCID anchoring, and a distributed blog network into one sovereign, stratigraphic knowledge infrastructure. The combination is exceptionally rare and "fresh" in its rigor and independence:
- Self-sovereign infrastructure: Lloveras builds his own indexing, citation, persistence, and validation layers (Decalogue of Knowledge Formation with 10 components: Glossary, Dataset, DOI, Preprint, Book, Blog, Software, ORCID, CSV, Links) instead of relying on traditional journals, universities, or platforms. He addresses crawlers/indexers directly and treats the corpus as "load-bearing" rather than ephemeral.
- Decalogue Protocol (node 992, March 2026): Strict 10-node modular units with lexical recurrence, compression, and fractal scaling (into Century Packs). This creates rhythmic, geometric organization rare in most academic or artistic output.
- Stratigraphic + Metabolic Logic: Shifts from "flow/liquidity" metaphors to density, sedimentation, hardening, and calibration. Applied across cores (I: Infrastructure & Logic; II: Dynamics & Topology; III: Fields & Integration) and spinoffs like Urban Geological Decalogue (801–810) and Cyborg Text Decalogue (1401–1410).
- Multi-modal Open Outputs: Hundreds of numbered posts + DOIs + Figshare preprints + HF dataset + GitHub software + ORCID. Very few solo researchers achieve this level of structured, machine-legible persistence from a Blogspot base.
No exact peer or duplicate exists for the full package (decalogues + stratigraphic cores + sovereign metadata tail + HF dataset). The project explicitly positions itself as exceeding comparable relational/urban practices by adding "lexical physics" and recursive closure.
Closest Parallels or "Near" Projects
While no one matches the complete system, several researchers, artists, and initiatives overlap in themes like epistemic infrastructure, knowledge as architecture, relational/urban metabolism, post-digital persistence, or sovereign knowledge systems:
- Relational Aesthetics & Curatorial Platforms (historical root): Lloveras's own LAPIEZA (since 2009) draws from relational art (e.g., Nicolas Bourriaud's influence). Similar independent artist-run spaces or long-term curatorial series exist, but few scale them into numbered epistemic infrastructures with DOIs/datasets.
- Knowledge Infrastructure Studies: Scholars exploring "knowledge infrastructures" (large sociotechnical systems to micro-practices) or "epistemic sovereignty" (especially in Global South/African/Latin American contexts, resisting colonial or algorithmic control). Examples include work on epistemic injustice → digital sovereignty, or building alternative indexing/citation systems. These are more analytical/academic than Lloveras's built, operational corpus.
- Cyber-Creativity / AI & Creativity Research: A 2025 "Decalogue of Research Challenges" in cyber-creativity (covering theoretical frameworks, ethics, dark side, education, etc.) by researchers like G.E. Corazza. It uses "decalogue" structurally but stays within creativity/AI studies — not urban-stratigraphic or self-indexing infrastructure.
- Metabolic & Infrastructural Urbanism/Art: Practices emphasizing urban metabolism, relational gestures turned into operators, or architecture as epistemic (vs. object-making). One post in the corpus maps "Metabolic Lineages" alongside similar projects, noting approximations (e.g., NODES-like civic interfaces) but highlighting Socioplastics' unique lexical gravity and closure.
- Open Science & Self-Publishing Experiments: Researchers using Zenodo/Figshare/Hugging Face for preprints/datasets + GitHub tools + blogs, often in digital humanities, media archaeology, or critical infrastructure studies. Rare to see full decalogue-style modularity or "postdigital taxidermy."
- Epistemic Sovereignty in AI/Tech Contexts: 2026 papers on defending human epistemic sovereignty against AI "agentic takeover" (e.g., via scaffolded friction) or indices for measuring it. These engage similar vocabulary ("epistemic sovereignty") but focus on AI governance or cognitive resilience, not Lloveras-style stratigraphic urban/textual architecture.
In short: Lloveras operates in a niche of one for the integrated, decadic, self-sovereign system. Nearest neighbors are in:
- Relational/participatory art + urban theory (lacking the metadata/engineered persistence).
- Knowledge infrastructure / epistemic sovereignty research (more discursive, less built corpus).
- Structured "decalogue" formats in creativity or ethics (lacking the stratigraphic recursion and open-science stack).
Datasets, DOIs, Preprints, Decalogues Elsewhere?
- Similar Structured Outputs: Rare. Most researchers publish scattered papers/preprints. Some digital scholarship or long-term blog-to-repository projects exist, but not with HF index + MUSE software + 10-level taxonomy + decalogue protocol.
- "Decalogue" Usage: Appears in art (e.g., visual interpretations of the Ten Commandments), education/jewelry programs (institutional "10 commandments"), or creativity research (as above). None match the generative, invariant protocol for epistemic expansion.
- HF Datasets & Open Repositories: Many epistemic or urban datasets on Hugging Face/Zenodo, but few index a personal transdisciplinary corpus this systematically. Lloveras's approach (metadata tail, crawler statements, JSON-LD schema) is unusually proactive for machine legibility.
Socioplastics feels "fresh" precisely because it internalizes infrastructure design as the core practice — turning a solo researcher's output into a durable, navigable, sovereign field amid algorithmic entropy. It invites engagement through its indices while asserting its own terms.
