Socioplastics’ recent cores make their intellectual genealogy visible through the work assigned to particular concepts. DocumentationFray [11022] examines how archival continuity depends on provenance, custody, translation and maintenance, explicitly connecting this analysis to Susan Leigh Star’s infrastructure studies and Geoffrey Bowker and Star’s work on classification. Star and Ruhleder’s 1996 account of infrastructure and access supports the first connection; Sorting Things Out develops the political consequences of categories and standards. MediationBroadcast [11075] follows how situated material changes as it circulates, and names Latour’s work on translation; CrosslinkConstellation [11049] distinguishes relations among references and discusses Latour alongside Star. These entries bring infrastructure, classification and networked translation into a shared analytical space. The boundary-object argument belongs specifically to Star and James Griesemer’s 1989 study, which provides a precise reference for the concept. The accompanying map extends this genealogy across cybernetics, space, embodiment, media, pedagogy and ecology. Together, these materials show a field building its concepts through differentiated tasks: tracing documentary continuity, examining classifications, and following the transformations that accompany circulation. The evidence supports a relational account of intellectual inheritance; establishing a ranked hierarchy of influence would require a systematic analysis of citations across the complete corpus.
