These twenty additions expand Socioplastics from a structural field-machine into a more situated, affective, decolonial, technological and urban-critical apparatus. They do not replace the existing canon — Foucault, Latour, Luhmann, Bourdieu, Deleuze, Haraway, Lefebvre, Bowker and Star — but thicken it with new operational pressures. The field gains authors able to read bodies, infrastructures, emotions, informal cities, racialised technologies, colonial afterlives and precarious creative labour as active epistemic matter. Sara Ahmed introduces affective economies, showing how emotions circulate between bodies, signs and political formations. Lauren Berlant adds cruel optimism, the attachment to promises that damage the very subjects who sustain them. Wendy Brown clarifies how neoliberal reason hollows democratic life from within. Ruha Benjamin and Kate Crawford bring the racial, planetary and extractive dimensions of artificial intelligence into the system, allowing Socioplastics to read platforms as infrastructures of classification, bias and governance. The urban axis is strengthened by Teresa Caldeira, Ananya Roy and AbdouMaliq Simone. Caldeira gives the field the fortified enclave as a grammar of segregation; Roy introduces informality as planning’s epistemological limit; Simone turns people themselves into infrastructure. Weizman extends architecture into forensic evidence, while Colomina and Wilson reframe domesticity, monumentality and racialised memory as spatial technologies. The ontological and decolonial layer becomes sharper through Marisol de la Cadena, Elizabeth Povinelli and Ndlovu-Gatsheni. They open the field toward earth-beings, geontopower and coloniality beyond juridical decolonisation. Parisi and Yuk Hui add computation, abstraction and cosmotechnics. Butler provides performativity; Zafra, creative precarity; Garcés, critical illumination after exhaustion. Together, these authors make Socioplastics less monumental and more porous: a field able to measure not only structure, but pressure, attachment, injury, extraction, memory, informality and survival.
