Discursive Auditing functions as the central mechanism of the Socioplastic Mesh, not merely as a methodological choice but as an aesthetic regime of epistemic sovereignty. In a contemporary art field saturated by performative data exhaust and self-archiving gestures, the framework developed by Anto Lloveras repositions critique as an infrastructural function rather than a representational act. Reflection is converted into protocol, and interpretation gives way to recursive operation. This shift is decisive, yet it carries a familiar risk: when critique absorbs the tools of governance, antagonism may be neutralised into procedure. The Mesh’s emphasis on fingerprinting, canonical identifiers, and traceable chains of custody rejects outsourced authority—journals, curators, rankings—but does so by intensifying the very logic of auditability that structures neoliberal knowledge systems. What is refused at the level of authorship reappears at the level of form.
