Socioplastics advances not through encyclopaedic accumulation but through strategic saturation, assembling a decalogue of heterogeneous yet interoperable fields whose calibrated divergence guarantees epistemic friction while sustaining iterative dialogue. Structured along dual axes—ontological range and institutional visibility—this constellation extends from vegetal life to technical protocol, from established critical theory to emergent interdisciplinary formations. Infrastructure Studies furnishes the material substrate, reframing art as operational system rather than symbolic residue, while Media Archaeology inscribes temporal stratification, revealing infrastructures as sedimented decisions and dormant protocols. In counterpoint, Political Ecology and Science and Technology Studies function as diagnostic instruments, situating scale as socio-natural metabolism and tracing the relational assemblages through which effects materialise, thereby averting the twin reductions of determinism and constructivism. At the formal pole, Network Science equips the Proportional Scale Index with mathematical ambition, yet Decolonial Theory recalibrates universality through epistemic situatedness, ensuring metric remains accountable to locality. Disability Studies and Sound Studies intervene as sensory correctives, displacing ocular normativity with relational embodiment and acoustic resonance, while Philosophical Botany radicalises ontology through distributed, non-cognitive agency. Together these ten domains constitute not a canon but an operational apparatus: a metabolising matrix through which Socioplastics can absorb conceptual diversity without forfeiting proportional integrity. The decalogue thus operates as calibrated aperture—ten refractive windows sustaining coherence across the project’s forthcoming decade of theoretical production.

Lloveras, A. (2026) Socioplastics

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Infrastructure Studies, Ontology, Cybernetics, Systems Theory, Science and Technology Studies, Critical Urban Studies, Posthumanism, Sovereignty Studies, Semiotics, Media Archaeology, Complexity Theory, Spatial Justice, Political Ecology, Feminism and Gender Theory, Decolonial Theory, Anthropocene Studies, Relational Aesthetics, Commons Theory, Mobility Studies, Technological Critique, Software Studies, Platform Studies, Environmental Psychology, Phenomenology, Place Theory, Landscape Theory, Urban Ecology, Multispecies Studies, New Materialism, Speculative Realism, Actor-Network Theory, Biopolitics, Postcolonial Theory, Critical Aesthetics, Contemporary Art Theory, Social Practice Art, Spatial Politics, Urban Anthropology, Informality Studies, Urban Marginality, Digital Capitalism, Surveillance Studies, Smart City Theory, Sound Studies, Visual Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Humanistic Geography, Hybrid Geographies, Philosophical Botany, Neuroaesthetics, Perception Theory, Disability Studies, Intersectionality Theory, Utopian Theory, Postmodern Theory, Radical Pedagogy, Globalization Theory, Geopolitics, Marxist Theory, Post-Marxism, Value Theory, Evolutionary Economics, Game Theory, Network Science, Scaling Theory, Complex Systems, Historical Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Interface Theory, Protocol Theory, Maintenance Studies, Critical Infrastructure Theory, Southern Epistemologies, Indigenous Theory, Territorial Feminism, Latin American Political Ecology, Subaltern Studies, Accelerationism, Materialist Philosophy, Post-Operaismo, Immaterialism, Object-Oriented Ontology, Digital Political Economy, Law and Technology, Algorithmic Culture, Urban Media Studies, Spatial Art Theory, Architectural Criticism, Urban Planning Theory, Sustainable Urbanism, Right to the City Theory, Environmental Humanities, Political Theology, Governmentality Studies, Logistics Studies, Data Studies, Institutional Theory.

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