In relation to Platform Studies and the stack theory articulated by Benjamin H. Bratton, Socioplastics can be understood as a “semantic stack”: a layered system of nodes, DOIs, tags, and distributed archives. Yet it departs from platform dependency by pursuing topological sovereignty, achieved through redundancy, cross-platform anchoring, and recursive reinforcement. Within Digital Humanities and open science, Socioplastics adopts technical tools—repositories, metadata, versioning—but reverses their orientation. Rather than prioritising accessibility or openness, it emphasises density, persistence, and resistance to algorithmic dilution. The archive becomes strategic rather than merely public. Finally, in fields such as Data-Centric AI and Knowledge Graph Engineering, where value lies in structuring data, Socioplastics introduces semantic hardening: data is not only organised but fortified against translation and drift, establishing a controlled lexical territory. Socioplastics synthesises these emerging domains into a single infrastructural paradigm. It is not only a discipline but an active epistemic system, designed to stabilise, organise, and govern meaning within volatile, platform-mediated environments.
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