Recursive Autophagia designates the metabolic protocol through which Socioplastics transforms its own accumulated history into usable matter, refusing both archival sanctification and platform-driven novelty. Borrowing from biological autophagy, yet intensified through recursion, it defines self-consumption as a sovereign technique of renewal: prior texts, routines, diagrams, nodes, exhibitions, and theoretical residues are fragmented, digested, and recomposed as epistemic protein for future stratigraphic construction. Its wager is exacting: in hyper-dense systems, unchecked accumulation produces inertia; therefore, durability requires not more expansion, but disciplined internal metabolism. This process operates through pattern cannibalisation, redundancy extraction, residue pruning, and reintegration, often in concert with Proteolytic Transmutation, which enzymatically disassembles excess, and Semantic Hardening, which stabilises the newly reconstituted material. A precise case appears in the conversion of weblog flow into DOI geology: dispersed posts, LAPIEZA documentation, obsolete protocols, and ImageCompost fragments are absorbed into hardened, citable strata, allowing the corpus to preserve continuity without becoming a mausoleum. Theoretically, Recursive Autophagia resonates with cybernetic feedback, Bergsonian duration, avant-garde fragmentation, degrowth critique, and Hartmut Rosa’s analysis of acceleration, yet it exceeds them by instituting self-digestion as infrastructural method. Against Algorithmic Entropy and institutional petrification, it enables Diagonal Reading to traverse a living terrain whose Recurrence Mass and Lexical Gravity are repeatedly renewed from within. Consequently, Recursive Autophagia establishes metabolic sovereignty: the field survives by eating its own tail, not as collapse, but as anabolic-catabolic intelligence, where writing, archiving, and pruning become one continuous operation of autopoietic construction.
