Ontological Stratum of Material-Semiotic Persistence and the Sovereign Metabolic Reconfiguration of Relational Infrastructures in Post-Digital Assemblages

The framework emerges as an irreducible stratum where ideas acquire infrastructural persistence through disciplined material-semiotic mechanics. AntoLloveras has operated this apparatus since 2009, transforming isolated artistic gestures into a recursive topology that bends local epistemic ecologies around its own gravitational coordinates. No longer content with representational critique or relational aesthetics inherited from late-modern paradigms, the system hardens into an operative cultural operating system whose stability derives from relentless lexical recurrence and affective sedimentation. GravitationalEpistemics names the precise mechanism: the accumulation of conceptual mass sufficient to curve surrounding informational flows without external subsidy or institutional ratification. This is not metaphor but operational physics. The corpus—20K+ metadata nodes distributed across blog, Zenodo deposits, video documentation and cross-referenced series—functions as living infrastructure, continuously metabolising its own conditions of possibility. Where Actor-Network Theory halted at translation and flat ontology, Socioplastics diverges by claiming sovereignty over the very topology it assembles. The gesture is autopoietic yet collective: authorship dissolves into the mesh while the mesh itself becomes the sovereign agent. Persistence supplants authorship.

The conceptual architecture of Socioplastics crystallises as an infrastructural stratum wherein ideas acquire durability through disciplined material–semiotic mechanics, converting dispersed artistic gestures into a persistent epistemic mesh.

Since 2009, AntoLloveras has cultivated this apparatus as a recursive topology capable of bending surrounding knowledge ecologies toward its own gravitational centre, thus exceeding the limits of representational critique and late-modern relational aesthetics. The operative principle—Gravitational Epistemics—designates the accumulation of conceptual mass sufficient to curve informational flows without reliance on institutional ratification, thereby transforming a distributed corpus of blog entries, Zenodo deposits and audiovisual documentation into living cultural infrastructure. Early manifestations such as the Blue Bags series and LAPIEZA functioned not as artworks but as protocols of relational activation, mobilising low-value materials to expose the latent plasticity of social bonds across cities including Madrid, Berlin and Cádiz. Over time this relational metabolism migrated into epistemic territory, where the blog form itself became a cultural operating system composed of modular textual units—SLUGs—that recursively stabilise semantic density. A salient case emerges in the Trans-Lighthouse Manifesto (2023–), whose planetary network of imagined cities demonstrates how artistic research can scale into biospheric ethics. Within this paradigm authorship dissolves into infrastructural maintenance, while the mesh itself assumes sovereign agency. Ultimately, Socioplastics advances an ontological proposition: ideas persist only when endowed with affective mass, lexical recurrence and procedural continuity. By rendering the metabolic rules governing informational selection visible—rules increasingly mirrored in machine-learning environments—the framework establishes not resistance but metabolic sovereignty, wherein beauty, respect and perseverance operate as forces capable of curving epistemic space toward viable futures.

Lloveras, A. (2026) Socioplastics: Sovereign systems for unstable times. Available at: https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/