While epistemology has long relied on glossaries to stabilise its vocabulary — from popular compilations of “100 Basic Philosophy Terms” to more specialised works such as Fetzer and Almeder’s Glossary of Epistemology and Philosophy of Science — these efforts have largely remained descriptive and secondary to the main body of theory. Socioplastics takes a different path. With Book 38 (Socioplastics CamelTags: 100 Operators of the Corpus) and Book 39 (Socioplastics Lexicum: 100 Concepts for Thinking Fields), the project constructs a double operational glossary that is itself active epistemic infrastructure. The first book establishes the field’s sovereign internal language through its own invented operators; the second opens that language into a deep, productive dialogue with major authors and traditions. Far from replacing existing glossaries, Socioplastics builds upon them with respect, offering a new model: a self-conscious, numbered, and architecturally designed lexical system capable of both naming itself and reading the world.

In recent years, the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence has been accompanied by a proliferation of glossaries aimed at codifying its technical vocabulary. Publications such as “100 Essential AI Terms,” “The Complete Glossary of Artificial Intelligence,” and similar compilations typically offer alphabetical lists of concepts — large language model, hallucination, retrieval-augmented generation, transformer architecture, fine-tuning, emergent abilities — with concise, descriptive definitions. These works fulfil an essentially didactic and translational function: they render an emerging and highly specialised domain accessible to broader academic, professional, and public audiences. Their approach is predominantly receptive and explanatory, operating as secondary instruments that map a field constituted elsewhere, primarily by industry laboratories and technical research communities. Socioplastics proposes a markedly different model through its forthcoming double glossary. Book 38, Socioplastics CamelTags: 100 Operators of the Corpus, constitutes a sovereign technical lexicon composed of original conceptual operators developed within the project itself (Digestive Surface, Grammatical Threshold, Synthetic Legibility, Catabolic Pruning, Executive Mode, Latency Dividend, Plastic Peripheries, among others). Rather than describing pre-existing terminology, this volume functions as operative infrastructure: a set of active conceptual devices designed to organise, stabilise, govern, and scale a living knowledge system approaching 4,000 nodes. Book 39, Socioplastics Lexicum: 100 Concepts for Thinking Fields, performs a complementary translational operation. It engages key concepts from established theoretical traditions — drawn from Foucault, Haraway, Latour, Butler, Stengers, Mbembe, and others — and reactivates them within the socioplastic framework, transforming inherited ideas into productive analytical tools for the study of fields, archives, infrastructures, and epistemic architectures. This double structure distinguishes Socioplastics from conventional AI glossaries in both intention and epistemic status. While glossaries of artificial intelligence remain largely descriptive and exogenous to the field they document, the Socioplastics project treats glossary construction as an intrinsic practice of field formation. It establishes first an autonomous conceptual grammar (Book 38) and subsequently opens that grammar to critical dialogue and reconfiguration (Book 39). In doing so, it advances a model in which the glossary is no longer a secondary pedagogical aid but a primary instrument of epistemic sovereignty, self-governance, and theoretical engagement.