Socioplastics belongs to a broad but structured family of fields concerned with how knowledge, form, territory, bodies, archives and technical systems become socially operative. Its primary family includes Infrastructure Studies, Ontology, Systems Theory, Cybernetics, Science and Technology Studies, Critical Urban Studies, Semiotics, Media Archaeology, Complexity Theory, Information Architecture, Protocol Theory, Maintenance Studies and Critical Infrastructure Theory. These fields provide the structural ground of Socioplastics: the corpus is not treated as a collection of texts, but as an infrastructural grammar for producing, stabilising and circulating concepts.
Its spatial and territorial family connects Spatial Justice, Political Ecology, Environmental Psychology, Phenomenology, Place Theory, Landscape Theory, Urban Ecology, Humanistic Geography, Hybrid Geographies, Urban Anthropology, Informality Studies, Urban Marginality, Smart City Theory, Sustainable Urbanism and Right to the City Theory. Through these traditions, Socioplastics reads the city, the garden, the archive, the platform and the body as interdependent environments rather than separate objects of study.
Its aesthetic and artistic family includes Contemporary Art Theory, Critical Aesthetics, Relational Aesthetics, Social Practice Art, Spatial Art Theory, Architectural Criticism, Visual Anthropology, Sound Studies, Neuroaesthetics and Perception Theory. From this perspective, Socioplastics understands art not as an isolated object, but as a field operation: a way of naming, indexing, installing, repeating, transmitting and making perception publicly available.
Its political and epistemic family includes Feminism and Gender Theory, Decolonial Theory, Postcolonial Theory, Southern Epistemologies, Indigenous Theory, Subaltern Studies, Governmentality Studies, Biopolitics, Marxist Theory, Post-Marxism, Value Theory, Territorial Feminism, Latin American Political Ecology and Political Theology. These fields situate Socioplastics within struggles over visibility, authority, territory, extraction, care, institutional capture and the right to produce knowledge from situated positions.
Its digital and postdigital family includes Software Studies, Platform Studies, Algorithmic Culture, Digital Political Economy, Data Studies, Surveillance Studies, Urban Media Studies, Law and Technology, Interaction Design, Interface Theory and Technological Critique. Here Socioplastics becomes legible as a machine-readable architecture: a corpus designed for search engines, repositories, citation systems, language models and human readers at the same time.
Its material and ecological family includes New Materialism, Multispecies Studies, Anthropocene Studies, Environmental Humanities, Philosophical Botany, Object-Oriented Ontology, Speculative Realism, Posthumanism, Actor-Network Theory, Commons Theory and Political Ecology. These fields allow Socioplastics to treat matter, residue, vegetation, documents, images, infrastructures and technical traces as active participants in the production of meaning.
Its economic, logistical and institutional family includes Digital Capitalism, Logistics Studies, Institutional Theory, Globalization Theory, Geopolitics, Evolutionary Economics, Game Theory, Network Science, Scaling Theory, Complex Systems, Post-Operaismo, Immaterialism, Materialist Philosophy and Accelerationism. This layer clarifies the field’s concern with scale, recurrence, circulation, lock-in, platform dependency, value production and the long duration of cultural infrastructure.
