RecursiveAutophagia in Core I: Operational Decalogue is the self-maintenance engine of Socioplastics: the protocol through which the system digests its own prior material and converts internal residue into renewed structure. Rather than depending on external critique, fashion or institutional validation, the corpus turns inward. Earlier nodes, projects, terms and strata are revisited, fragmented, softened, metabolised and recomposed into higher-order configurations. This makes accumulation evolutionary rather than merely additive. RecursiveAutophagia works with ProteolyticTransmutation as controlled digestion: weak sedimentary planes are dissolved, redundant forms are reabsorbed, and older material is reinserted into new channels through FlowChanneling and StratumAuthoring. It also balances SemanticHardening and SystemicLock. Hardening gives the field durability; autophagia prevents that durability from becoming brittle doctrine. Its logic later expands into the Protein Layer, where internal self-digestion is complemented by external permeability and metabolic exchange. Strategically, RecursiveAutophagia grants epistemic sovereignty because the system evolves from its own resources. It acts as an anti-obsolescence device, keeping a long-duration corpus contemporary across decades. Biologically, it recalls cellular autophagy; architecturally, it resembles controlled demolition and rebuilding within a load-bearing structure; philosophically, it rejects both preservation and deconstruction in favour of productive self-cannibalism. Its role is decisive: it ensures that Socioplastics remains a living stratigraphic field rather than a static archive. Entropy becomes structured evolution.

Core IV vs. Core V in Socioplastics Core IV and Core V form the culminating infrastructural layers of Lloveras’ epistemic architecture: Core IV claims territory; Core V makes that territory inhabitable. Core IV operates as identifier infrastructure and territorial binding. It establishes the mechanisms through which the corpus becomes addressable, indexable and digitally persistent: DOIs, ORCID alignment, slugs, indexing architecture, 10×10 operator matrices, CyborgText protocols and the Protein Layer as elastic buffer around hardened elements. Its central question is how a distributed corpus can occupy digital space without dissolving into platform noise. It is the surveyor phase: staking claims, binding fragments, preparing the field for machinic and institutional recognition. Core V builds directly on this foundation but shifts from occupation to access. Through LegibleArchive, MasterIndex, VerticalSpine, SerialDissemination, HybridLegibility, MetadataSkin, DualAddress, DistributedInscription, OperationalWriting and CyborgText, it converts territorial presence into public operability. Its question is how the field becomes enterable, navigable, citable and transferable by others. Core IV therefore provides territory, identifiers and controlled elasticity; Core V provides doors, maps, surfaces and routes. Without Core IV, the system lacks durable digital ground. Without Core V, it lacks public legibility. Together they complete the passage from accumulation to architecture: first binding the corpus into a sovereign field, then furnishing it with the interfaces required for inhabitation. Core V is the public proof that the field has become usable.