Saturday, July 11, 2026

ProteolyticTransmutation - Paul B. Preciado - Form changes by becoming rather than by replacement. A metabolic operator for partial digestion, transformation and renewed material agency - Socioplastics - LAPIEZA-LAB - Anto Lloveras


ProteolyticTransmutation is anchored in Paul B. Preciado because his account of the somatic body describes identity and matter as continuously reworked by technical, chemical and discursive apparatuses rather than fixed at origin. In Socioplastics, material, textual and conceptual forms are not simply preserved or discarded; they are metabolised into new configurations. The proteolytic image suggests partial digestion: a previous form is broken down enough to become available again, but not erased. Transmutation occurs through pressure, context, technical mediation and reactivation of the body of the field itself. Its internal companion is RecursiveAutophagia, where the system feeds on its own archive. This genealogy draws on Preciado's Testo Junkie (2008), and is developed in Lloveras' Socioplastics Project Index (2026), https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/p/socioplastics-project-index.html.