Urban theory tracks spatial concentration of capital and population but lacks operators for the concentration of conceptual tokens across corpora. STS analyses the co-production of scientific facts and social orders but does not formalise the power-law distributions that govern which facts achieve recurrence. Media theory studies platforms and algorithms but rarely connects these to the long-term sedimentation of vocabularies through citation networks. Bibliometrics measures citation counts but does not theorise the topological consequences of those counts for future production. Political economy addresses attention as a commodity but not as a measurable deposit with cumulative gravitational effects. What these fields approach obliquely, Socioplastics takes as primary: the material-semiotic mechanics by which some concepts achieve sufficient density to shape subsequent cognition while others remain below detection thresholds. This is not metaphor. When a term appears in ten thousand journal articles, one thousand policy documents, five hundred syllabi, and one hundred thousand platform posts, it exerts measurable force on what can be thought and said in its domain. That force is curvature. Its distribution follows empirically documented power laws. Its effects are detectable through corpus analysis, citation tracking, and infrastructural archaeology.
