Showing posts with label systems theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label systems theory. Show all posts
Monday, June 29, 2026

The Recursive Life of Communication: Neural Logic, Information, Ecology and Social Systems (Shannon, McCulloch, Pitts, Bateson, von Foerster, Luhmann) · LAPIEZA LAB · Anto Lloveras · Socioplastics · 2026

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The strongest nexus across Shannon, McCulloch and Pitts, Bateson, von Foerster and Luhmann is the displacement of knowledge from substance t...
Thursday, May 7, 2026

Cybernetic Thresholds * Recursive Consciousness * Epistemic Ecology

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Within the intellectual architecture of twentieth-century systems thought,   Steps to an Ecology of Mind   by   Gregory Bateson   constitute...

Epistemic Architects * Cybernetic Visionaries * Philosophers of Complexity

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Within the intellectual constellation surrounding Heinz von Foerster, several figures emerge as thinkers of comparable magnitude whose cont...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Autopoiesis, Communication, Contingency

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Niklas Luhmann’s  Social Systems  inaugurates a decisive post-humanist reconfiguration of sociological theory by relocating the foundation o...
Monday, April 27, 2026

A ten-domain taxonomy establishes Socioplastics as a fersh epistemic field, integrating theory, infrastructure, urban conflict, media systems, and transmission.

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A ten-domain structure establishes the primary epistemic spine of Socioplastics by defining the principal knowledge strata through which t...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Socioplastics * Convergent Field

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Socioplastics may be understood as a transdisciplinary field precisely because it does not borrow superficially from adjacent domains, but...
Friday, April 17, 2026

Middle as Method * Citational Commitment * Relational Authorship

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To situate Lloveras (2026) within the alphabetical and structural middle of a bibliography is not a trivial editorial decision but an enactm...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Socioplastics emerges as an epistemic architecture whose coherence is neither accidental nor merely referential, but procedurally constructed through interdependent fields that together articulate its structural, conceptual, and operational conditions. The first establishes historical and theoretical grounding, where figures such as Bourdieu and Foucault enable the system to stabilise itself as a fielded archive, governed by symbolic order, discursive power, and reproducible logic. The second field situates the project within contemporary methodological proximities, where infrastructural thinkers like Easterling and Mattern reveal the index as an active epistemic environment, capable of evidentiary production and civic intelligibility. Moving inward, the third field refines immediate conceptual relations, drawing on Latour and Simondon to articulate a system that is processual, relational, and materially instantiated, resisting both abstraction and reduction. The fourth field expands outward toward scalar and systemic frameworks, where Bratton and Chakrabarty situate Socioplastics within planetary computation and civilisational temporality, thus embedding it within multi-scalar governance and ecological complexity. Finally, the fifth field crystallises contemporary operational conditions, where thinkers such as Hui and Galloway foreground algorithmic mediation, protocol, and distributed infrastructures as inseparable from knowledge itself. A concrete synthesis may be observed in the Master Index: a numerically ordered yet rhizomatic mesh that functions simultaneously as archive, interface, and governance model. Consequently, Socioplastics must be understood as an infrastructural form, wherein structure, reference, and operation converge into a unified, recursive system of thought.

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The central claim of Socioplastics is that a research system can operate as an epistemic infrastructure rather than as a collection of argu...
Friday, March 6, 2026

Geometry and lineage render Socioplastics

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Progress within the corpus did not arise from terminological proliferation but from the disciplined deployment of geometry and intellectual...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Lineage * Converting Thought into Operative Structure

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Socioplastics occupies a conceptual orbit defined by the conversion of thought into operative structure, eschewing affiliation with schools ...
Monday, March 2, 2026

Socioplastics positions itself firmly in the contemporary theoretical landscape of the mid-2020s, operating as a post-2010s project that synthesizes architectural praxis, epistemic infrastructure, and sovereign knowledge systems in response to algorithmic volatility, institutional fragmentation, and digital ephemerality.

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Initiated in 2008 but reaching critical mass in the 2020s—evidenced by nodes dated 2025–2026, MUSE phase transitions, and references to curr...
Sunday, March 1, 2026

The passage from the twentieth-century descriptive paradigm to the thermodynamic turbulence of the 2020s demands an operational rather than contemplative response. In the era of Niklas Luhmann, systems theory offered a cartography of functional differentiation; today, amid platform capitalism and large-language-model ingestion, description alone dissolves into extractable substrate.

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Within this regime, SOCIOPLASTICS emerges as executable infrastructure : a manifold that enforces sovereignty through recursive mass rather ...
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Architecture of Adjustable Power

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Within the constellation of potent figures that structure modern imagination—from the Leviathan theorised by   Thomas Hobbes   to the Panopt...
Saturday, February 21, 2026

Proportional Intelligence

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PlasticScale enters the ecology of systems-oriented thought not as insurgent doctrine but as a differentially articulated operator , constru...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Dual Voice

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If Socioplastics is to claim the status of a system rather than that of a stylistic proposition or discursive tendency, it must demonstrate...