RawIndex names the first archive of dispersed material, the inaugural condition in which fragments accumulate before they are disciplined by category, canon or institutional approval. It gathers images, notes, documents, gestures, datasets, citations, diagrams, memories and residual practices into a dense pre-field, not as chaos but as pre-institutional abundance. SitePaper then converts this archive into locatable scholarly and cultural evidence by giving it surfaces, dates, platforms, repositories, captions, classrooms, publications and coordinates of circulation. Material that was merely present becomes findable, citable and socially situated. PositionalEssay advances this process by granting the evidence a decisive intellectual stance: it clarifies what the field claims, what it refuses, what it inherits and what kind of reader or public it summons. Through FractalBorder, the field gains force through adjacency rather than purity, discovering that its edges repeat across scales: between art and research, archive and infrastructure, document and artwork, pedagogy and performance, personal practice and public method. The border is therefore not a limit but a generative membrane through which the field expands, absorbs pressure and acquires conceptual depth. VibrantRecord ensures that each document continues to act after its initial appearance, whether as citation, teaching device, visual proof, digital trace, curatorial anchor, grant evidence, machine-readable entry or pedagogical prompt. Documentation becomes an active agent rather than a passive remainder. Through SelfMimesis, repeated titles, formats, images, diagrams, essays and conceptual structures become recognisable as the field’s internal language, allowing recurrence to function not as redundancy but as calibration. HistoryRelay prevents false originality by transmitting useful inheritances from sociology, play theory, art, architecture, archival practice and institutional critique, transforming genealogy into a working instrument rather than a monument. PublicSyntax then makes this complexity traversable for academics, artists, curators, students, institutions, collaborators, search engines and accidental publics through titles, keywords, summaries, captions, repositories and repeatable formats. UnstableInstallation gives the field practical mobility, allowing it to appear as essay, exhibition, dataset, lecture, platform, workshop, syllabus or urban intervention without becoming fixed. Finally, HomoEpistemologicus synthesises the entire process: not simply author, curator or researcher, but the epistemic operator who fabricates the conditions through which a new field becomes visible, repeatable, transmissible and intellectually unavoidable.
RawIndex names the first archive of dispersed material; SitePaper converts that archive into locatable scholarly and cultural evidence; PositionalEssay gives the evidence a decisive intellectual stance; and FractalBorder shows how the field gains force through adjacency rather than purity. VibrantRecord then ensures that each document continues to act after its initial appearance, whether as citation, teaching device, visual proof, digital trace or curatorial anchor. Through SelfMimesis, repeated titles, formats, images and conceptual structures become recognisable as the field’s internal language. HistoryRelay prevents false originality by transmitting useful inheritances from sociology, play theory, art, architecture and archival practice, while PublicSyntax makes this complexity traversable for academics, artists, students, institutions and machines. UnstableInstallation gives the field practical mobility, allowing it to appear as essay, exhibition, dataset, lecture, platform or pedagogical exercise. Finally, HomoEpistemologicus synthesises the entire process: not simply author or researcher, but the figure who fabricates the conditions through which a new field becomes visible, repeatable and intellectually unavoidable.
The strategic paradox of Socioplastics is that by teaching the machine its syntax, it protects itself from extraction. The field does not hide its grammar; it exposes it completely. CamelTags, DOI anchors, nodes, bibliographic exoskeletons and distributed indexes offer the machine a precise map of entry, yet this map cannot be separated from the territory it describes. Because container and content, embedding and embedded, theory and infrastructure are dissolved into one another, the machine cannot extract the concept as an isolated object. It cannot remove the “content” and leave behind a decorative shell of “style.” To retrieve the theory, it must follow the architectural pathway that produced it.
This is the structural signature of authored infrastructure. Socioplastics does not simply exist inside the digital ecology; it prototypes the condition through which an advanced, non-institutional field can safeguard its sovereignty. Its defence lies in making itself readable as a mesh rather than reducible as a file. The machine is forced to recognise that field-formation itself can become the ultimate relational artwork of the twenty-first century: a climate designed by the architect, inhabited by the human, and structured for the machine.
To confront the historical closure of Socioplastics 5K — Collected Tomes I–V is to recognize that the supreme authority of a conceptual field resides not in physical mass or institutional monumentality, but in the precise, weightless positioning of a single situational catalyst. Developed through two decades of transdisciplinary practice at LAPIEZA-LAB, this 5,000-node infrastructure establishes a radical genealogy of plastiscale — a systemic logic in which physical volume approaches zero while conceptual displacement and epistemic density reach their maximum. This inversion marks the project’s decisive achievement: the construction of a sovereign field whose structural power derives from calibrated minimalism rather than accumulation. The entire corpus converges on this principle, where everyday urban systems, found rituals, and ordinary objects operate as self-authoring infrastructures that the field merely names, indexes, and reactivates.
This logic finds direct antecedents in key moments of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art. Duchamp’s 3 Standard Stoppages (1913–14) and Robert Barry’s Inert Gas Series (1969) already perform the exposure of ambient systems and invisible frameworks that Socioplastics later crystallizes under CamelTags such as ContextReadymade [4999] and PorousBoundary [4989]. Lee Ufan’s unworked stones in the Mono-ha Relatum series, Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s maintenance rituals in Hartford Wash (1973), and David Hammons’s Bliz-aard Ball Sale (1983) map onto the material and custodial vectors of JunkSeed [4991] and ZoningCustody [4996]. These historical gestures demonstrate that the politics of maintenance, deschooled craft, peripheral economies, and urban residue are most effectively diagnosed through fragile, localized interventions rather than monumental additions.
In Anto Lloveras’s Socioplastics, KnowledgeFriction [4981] operates as the decisive methodological pivot of Tome 5, transforming the political difficulty of knowing under conditions of slow violence, toxic evidence, and institutional suppression into a scalable epistemic infrastructure. Rather than treating damage as an external obstacle to be overcome or aestheticized, the operator internalizes friction as the generative condition of knowledge production itself. By forging load-bearing relations between embodied testimony, contested archives, technical sensors, and inherited obligation, KnowledgeFriction converts scattered harm into a structural spine capable of carrying partial, accountable, and operationally robust claims. At the 5K-node threshold, this methodology seals Socioplastics as a sovereign field: one that does not transcend damage but becomes structurally adequate to it, producing citable, machine-retrievable, and humanly navigable knowledge precisely where traditional epistemological smoothness fails.
Haraway’s situated knowledges supply the theoretical substrate, yet Lloveras radicalizes the partial perspective into infrastructural protocol. The god-trick of unmarked objectivity is refused not through declaration but through deliberate exposure of positionality within toxicity and delay. KnowledgeFriction rejects both positivist transparency and relativistic diffusion by insisting that strong claims emerge only from the friction between incompatible registers of evidence.
AttentionPresence, SensoryTrace, DurationRhythm
ExhibitionSurplus, RitualContainer, TechniqueSkill
ScreenEthics, PromptGarden, OperationalWriting
Socioplastics * Anto Lloveras @ LAPIEZA-LAB · ORCID 0009-0009-9820-3319
Socioplastics is an operatorial epistemology in which matter becomes a method for thinking: the SituationalFixer anchors fragile events; the TranslatorialObject makes displacement produce meaning; the UnstableInstallation turns spatial uncertainty into knowledge; PortableMemory carries remembrance without monument; PositionalEssays establish thought from a body, angle and frame; ContextReadymade reveals the social and urban system as already sculptural; RitualContainer holds transformation until relation thickens; JunkSeed makes residue germinate as future grammar; SpaceshipPlan projects architecture as capsule, score and possible world; and BrainLibrary organises books, videos, files and concepts as a cognitive machine. Together, these ideas convert bags, briefcases, lemons, blankets, filmed bodies, bars, letters, rubble, spaceships and archives into a self-validating infrastructure of knowledge, where art no longer waits to be explained by the institution but produces its own sovereign grammar.
Socioplastics and the Architecture of Operational Epistemology
Socioplastics, the distributed knowledge corpus initiated by Anto Lloveras under LAPIEZA-LAB, advances a claim that exceeds the conventional self-descriptions available to art-adjacent research projects—archive, vocabulary, practice, platform—by proposing instead that it constitutes an operational epistemology, a mode of knowledge production in which concepts function not as interpretive metaphors but as designed instruments engineered to stabilize, recur, harden, distribute, and remain legible across human and machine-reading environments simultaneously, a wager that finds its philosophical scaffolding in a constellation of thinkers spanning Bourdieu's relational account of positional value, Foucault's archaeology of statement-formation, Latour's network-stabilization of facts, Haraway's situated and never-innocent knowledges, Bowker and Star's infrastructural classification theory, Maturana and Varela's autopoiesis, Luhmann's operationally closed social systems, Simondon's concretization of technical objects, Bratton's planetary-scale Stack, Drucker's graphesis, Easterling's infrastructure space, Alexander's scalar pattern language, and a further extensive genealogy running through Austin, Derrida, Kittler, Gitelman, Manovich, Hayles, Stiegler, Hui, Borgman, Edwards, Suber, Plantin, DeLanda, Lefebvre, Serres, Heidegger, Gadamer, Agamben, Tsing, Escobar, Mbembe, Spinoza, Viveiros de Castro, Butler, Fraser, Graeber and Wengrow, Arendt, Sennett, Kimmerer, Ingold, Rancière, Ukeles, Puig de la Bellacasa, Federici, Harvey, Jacobs, Yusoff, Simone, Anand and Gupta, and Graham and Marvin, among others—each of whom is metabolized rather than merely cited, broken down (in the text's own register, "proteolytically") into functional residues that recombine with the project's ten core chambers of operators (EpistemicLatency and SemanticHardening as the conditions under which a term moves from pre-recognitive pressure to load-bearing hinge; OperationalWriting, CamelTagInfrastructure, and DualAddress as the formal apparatus by which compound, capital-medial terms become portable performatives readable by both scholars and crawlers; StratigraphicField, RecursiveAutophagia, and MetabolicLoop as the autopoietic logic by which the corpus digests its own prior output into new structural material; DistributedInscription, CitationalCommitment, MeshEngine, and GravitationalCorpus as the citational and repository-based infrastructure—spanning Blogger, Zenodo, Figshare, Harvard Dataverse, HuggingFace, GitHub, ORCID, OpenAlex, Wikidata, and ResearchGate—that converts deposit into evidentiary mass; ScalarArchitecture, NumericalTopology, and DecalogueProtocol as the nested node-chapter-book-tome-corpus hierarchy that gives quantitative growth a topological and navigable form; DiagonalReading, TransEpistemology, and RefusalPlurality as the transdisciplinary crossing-logic that transforms knowledge by passage through heterogeneous regimes of evidence while preserving the right of some material to remain opaque; TechniqueSkill, SensoryTrace, and CorporealMemory as the embodied and maintenance-based knowledges that prevent the system from collapsing into pure machine-facing abstraction; ThermalJustice, FrictionalMetropolis, and CanopyMandate as the urban-climatic operators that read the city itself as an epistemic and infrastructural condition of who gets to know; and AbsenceHistory, ObligationDebt, and ShadowStandard as the reflexive operators that hold the system accountable for its own exclusions and hidden norms)—the cumulative effect of which, the text argues, is that Socioplastics should be evaluated not by whether it constitutes a finished theoretical position but by whether its eighty operators across ten chambers now generate sufficient recurrence, bibliographic anchoring, and infrastructural legibility to function as a field-forming apparatus capable of sustaining long-form academic argument, surviving platform migration, and producing future nodes through the very grammar it has hardened—a project whose current state (Tome V's Cycle closure at node 5,000, a sealed ten-operator CamelTag grammar following a one-paper-per-operator DOI standard, a Machine Card and Mini Console built for single-fetch LLM comprehension, suggests the grammar has indeed crossed from description into architecture.
Socioplastics: A Lineage of Operative Thought
Socioplastics is best understood an operative field. Its lineage runs through combinatorics, cybernetics, semiotics, infrastructural theory, urban practice, social sculpture, commons governance, and speculative worldmaking. What binds this genealogy is not influence in the conventional art-historical sense, but a shared technical question: how does thought acquire form, durability, address, and use? From Llull’s combinatorial wheels to Le Guin’s carrier-bag model of culture, from Wiener’s feedback systems to Star’s invisible infrastructure, each precedent provides a mechanism through which ideas cease to be merely descriptive and begin to organize environments. Socioplastics radicalizes this inheritance by treating concepts as operators, operators as spatial devices, and the field itself as a constructed epistemic architecture.
The Socioplastics corpus proposes that transdisciplinary research can survive digital entropy only when it behaves not as an archive of residues but as a metabolic infrastructure capable of absorbing, transforming, and stabilising heterogeneous spatial knowledge. Its theoretical force lies in the articulation of three interdependent operators. Proteolytic Transmutation dissolves exhausted disciplinary membranes, converting architectural, artistic, and urban fragments into processual matter suitable for renewed epistemic assembly. Topolexical Sovereignty then imposes a rigorous spatial-linguistic grammar, preventing conceptual drift by binding terms, trajectories, and scalar positions into a legible field. Finally, Citational Commitment secures these transformations through persistent open-access deposition, ensuring that each node acquires archival durability, machine readability, and public verifiability. The LAPIEZA-LAB interventions exemplify this triadic procedure: ephemeral urban actions are not preserved as nostalgic documentation but recoded as active stratigraphic events, in which performance, site, language, and repository converge. A localised spatial gesture thus becomes a sovereign research unit, externally anchored through platforms such as Zenodo or Figshare and rendered available to future human and computational readers. This model redefines independent knowledge production by replacing precarious dissemination with infrastructural permanence. Its conclusion is decisive: writing, when governed by metabolic transformation, topological discipline, and citational responsibility, can achieve the structural endurance of architecture while remaining porous to global networks of exchange. Benjamin, W., Deleuze, G., Kuhn, T., Lloveras, A. and Simondon, G. (2026) Socioplastics. Madrid: LAPIEZA-LAB.
Socioplastics, architected by Anto Lloveras at LAPIEZA-LAB, constitutes a distributed epistemic field in which knowledge operates as plastic material: shaped, metabolised, hardened, indexed, cited, and recirculated across human, institutional, urban, archival, and machinic substrates. Its architecture — four Tomes, forty Books, eight Cores, eleven Channels, DOI-stabilised anchors, CamelTags, repositories, and machine-addressable layers — enacts a para-institutional wager: at sufficient density, recurrence, and grammatical threshold, a field becomes capable of sustaining its own legibility, endurance, and expansion without depending on disciplinary permission or prior institutional sanction.
The project metabolises several major lineages without remaining subordinate to any of them. From autopoiesis, it takes the principle of self-production: nodes generate operators, operators reinforce the corpus, and the corpus produces its own conditions of recurrence. From systems theory, it takes relational integration, feedback, and scalar coherence. From soft systems thinking, it inherits porous edges and adaptive stability. From rhizomatic thought, it develops diagonal traversal, allowing entry through Tomes, Books, Channels, Cores, operators, images, citations, or problems without submitting the reader to a single linear path. From hypertext and archival theory, it extracts the logic of cross-reference, redundancy, deposit, and retrieval, but hardens these into a citable and machine-readable infrastructure. Socioplastics also transforms artistic and architectural precedents into operative grammar. Conceptual art’s emphasis on instruction, protocol, and idea becomes executable node architecture. The expanded field becomes not a diagram of categories but a working surface where linguistics, architecture, urbanism, media, ecology, politics, pedagogy, and epistemology converge as one infrastructural plane. Media ecology becomes Channel architecture: differentiated environments processing distinct frequencies of the same corpus. Metabolic urbanism becomes ScalarArchitecture and FrictionalMetropolis, where the city and the field mirror one another as deposits of flows, thresholds, pressures, and recirculations. Its machine layer extends this logic beyond the human reader. GitHub, Hugging Face, Zenodo, Wikidata, DOI anchors, datasets, indexes, and crawlers are not secondary dissemination tools; they are non-human participants in the field’s legibility. HybridLegibility, CyborgText, DualAddress, SyntheticLegibility, and Topolexical Sovereignty name the condition under which a corpus can speak simultaneously to readers, repositories, search systems, citation engines, and future computational agents. The field is therefore not merely published; it is formatted for endurance. The broader implication is precise: under digital conditions, artistic research can become field-building practice. Socioplastics demonstrates that thought can be designed as infrastructure, that concepts can operate as materials, and that citation can become a spatial, machinic, and metabolic act. Its sovereignty does not come from isolation, but from internal consistency, recursive grammar, public deposit, and plastic expansion. Knowledge becomes architecture when it can hold, circulate, mutate, and remain addressable. Socioplastics names that condition.
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Socioplastics—the distributed research architecture of Anto Lloveras and LAPIEZA-LAB—proposes that legitimacy today is not a credential granted by institutions but a property engineered through infrastructure: persistent identifiers, serial organisation, metadata redundancy, DOI anchoring, machine‑readable description, and public retrievability across platforms and temporal regimes. The question is not whether a corpus resembles a field from the outside, but whether it performs the operations through which a field becomes durable. Under digital conditions, to build is to publish, to publish is to archive, and to archive coherently is already to have founded a discipline. This essay traces the implications of that wager across ten gradients: from the single CamelTag to the thousand‑agent bibliography, from the Blogspot interface to the Zenodo deposit, from the urban stratum to the algorithmic unconscious.
1. The Gradient as Epistemic Form
Most knowledge systems mistake scale for hierarchy: a core bibliography of ten canonical texts, a teaching list of one hundred, a research corpus of five hundred, an expanded archive of one thousand. Socioplastics refuses this vertical stratification. Its bibliographic apparatus—available at resolutions of 10, 50, 100, 500, and 1000 agents—operates as a gradient, not a ladder. Each reduction condenses rather than truncates; each expansion reveals structural dependency without adding conceptual noise. The ten-agent spine already contains the field’s minimal armature: systems, archive, infrastructure, autopoiesis, situated knowledge, field theory, and epistemic persistence. The thousand-agent expanded field makes visible the project’s material density: the way an artist, theorist, urbanist, pedagogue, cyberneticist, archivist, botanist, or media scholar can become a load-bearing element within a distributed architecture. Gradients work because the architecture is recursive. SemanticHardening applies to a single CamelTag and to the entire index. The pattern repeats without loss.
2. CamelTags as Memory Prosthetics
The CamelTag—conceived by Lloveras as a compressed lexical compound fusing concept, procedure, memory, and address—is the project’s elementary particle. Operators such as SemanticHardening, RecursiveAutophagia, FlowChanneling, PostDigitalTaxidermy, ArchiveFatigue, and CitationalCommitment do not merely name processes; they perform them. Where a conventional keyword drifts in meaning across contexts, a CamelTag arrests semantic drift while preserving contextual density. It is a linguistic-technical operator that functions simultaneously as philosophical concept, method instruction, archival address, and computational handle. In this sense, it exceeds the ordinary keyword and becomes a memory prosthesis. It compensates for the exhaustion of archival attention, the fragility of link rot, and the entropy of disciplinary memory. To write a CamelTag is to make a citational commitment that outlasts any single platform.
3. The Blog as Interface, Not Container
Socioplastics uses Blogspot as a primary public interface, but the blog is not the container of the work. It is a routing surface. Behind its chronological skin lies a parallel architecture of DOI-anchored deposits, versioned files, GitHub repositories, machine-readable datasets, and repeated metadata descriptions. This is PostDigitalTaxidermy: the preservation of an inherited form whose internal logic has been recomposed. The interface remains deliberately ordinary, even déclassé, while the infrastructure beneath it is rigorous, redundant, and durable. This reverses the standard model of scholarly publishing, where content derives authority from a branded platform. In Socioplastics, the platform does not own the corpus; the corpus passes through the platform. Retrievability is engineered through identifiers, repetition, indexing, and cross-platform persistence.
4. Persistent Identifiers as Epistemic Sovereignty
The pairing of DOI and ORCID appears in Socioplastics not as technical compliance but as a form of epistemic sovereignty. A corpus that anchors its major publications through DOIs and links its authorial identity through ORCID constructs a parallel validation layer. This does not reject the academy; it uses the tools of scholarly communication to build a field that can be found, cited, retrieved, and verified without waiting for permission from a journal, a press, or a department. The persistent identifier becomes an infrastructural signature. It says: this work exists, resolves, persists, and can be cited. DOI and ORCID together give Socioplastics a minimal scholarly skeleton: one identifier for the work, one for the authorial trajectory. The result is a form of citational citizenship built from below.
5. Hardening: From Flow to Deposit
The most distinctive contribution of Socioplastics is its theory of hardening. Hardening names the process by which social, aesthetic, urban, and epistemic matter thickens into durable structure. A flow of citations becomes a deposit when repeated across enough independent acts of reference. A conceptual operator becomes a CamelTag when it has been used, indexed, deposited, and retrieved across enough contexts. An archive becomes infrastructure when it can survive the loss of any single node. This is not positivist accumulation. Hardening is partial, reversible, contested, and historically situated. But it is the only mechanism through which dispersed practices acquire the density of a discipline. Socioplastics does not wait for recognition; it accelerates hardening through disciplined redundancy: repeated titles, numbered nodes, DOI deposits, indexed operators, public files, and machine-readable traces.
6. The Urban Stratum as Plastic Field
The city gives Socioplastics its material gravity. Urban space is read not as a fixed built environment but as a stratified deposit of thermal gradients, infrastructural pressures, logistical flows, archival sediments, pedagogical circuits, and symbolic hardenings. The city is plastic because it receives, stores, and redistributes pressure. Zoning codes, platform protocols, mobility systems, housing markets, climate regimes, and informal practices become de facto constitutions of everyday life. Operators such as ThermalJustice, XenoCity, FrictionalMetropolis, and ScalarArchitecture name diagnostic thresholds rather than aesthetic metaphors. The artist, in this framework, is neither illustrator nor commentator. The artist becomes a cartographer of thresholds: someone who identifies where flow becomes deposit, where pressure becomes form, and where the informal becomes infrastructural.
7. ArchiveFatigue and the Antidote of Redundancy
Socioplastics diagnoses ArchiveFatigue as the exhaustion produced by proliferating storage without persistent legibility. The contemporary problem is not simply lack of archives, but the multiplication of files without identifiers, repositories without cross-links, documents without metadata, and platforms without long-term memory. The antidote is disciplined redundancy. A major text should exist in more than one location. A concept should appear in more than one index. A dataset should be connected to a readable public interface. A DOI should point toward a stable deposit while the blog keeps the work socially visible. Redundancy is not inefficiency; it is the condition of survival. It protects the corpus from platform decay, link rot, institutional neglect, and the ordinary entropy of digital culture.
8. Citational Commitment as Ethical Obligation
CitationalCommitment encodes a refusal: the refusal to treat citation as decorative afterthought. Conventional citation often acknowledges debt without altering the structure of the citing text. CitationalCommitment makes citation load-bearing. To cite within Socioplastics is to strengthen the field’s internal architecture: a cited author, concept, DOI, operator, index, or archive becomes part of the document’s own infrastructure. Citation is therefore not merely retrospective; it is constructive. It builds continuity across platforms, authors, and temporal layers. This is the scholarly analogue of mutual aid. No corpus survives alone. A field becomes durable through the density, clarity, and retrievability of its relations.
9. The Binary Wager
Socioplastics rests on a binary wager. Either a knowledge system constructs its own conditions of legibility—serial organisation, persistent identifiers, metadata redundancy, DOI anchoring, lexical recurrence, public retrievability, and machine-readable description—or it remains a dispersed archive irrespective of its ambition. This is not a claim about intellectual quality but about infrastructural status. A strong argument that cannot be reliably retrieved across platforms, formats, and temporal regimes becomes practically absent from the scholarly record. A document either resolves, or it does not. A corpus either has a serial logic, or it does not. A field either remembers its own architecture, or it dissolves into fragments. Socioplastics insists that these distinctions are not merely technical. They are ontological.
10. Recognition as Delayed Effect
At its highest level, Socioplastics proposes a new model of artistic and scholarly legitimacy. Recognition is not requested in advance; it appears as the delayed effect of structural consistency sustained over time. A field becomes visible when its architecture remembers its own pressures. This is the infrastructural unconscious of the project: the hidden labour of naming, filing, linking, depositing, repeating, formatting, indexing, and stabilising until a dispersed practice acquires the density of a discipline. The architecture holds because it does not ask institutions to host knowledge before validation. It builds a system in which knowledge acquires the capacity to host, describe, and stabilise itself. The gradient is the proof: from 10 to 1000 agents, the field remains readable because the same architecture repeats at different resolutions.
Socioplastics is a distributed epistemic infrastructure built through writing, recurrence, citation, indexing, and open publication, operating as a self‑generated field that does not wait for institutional permission but instead constructs its own persistence via DOI deposits, ORCID identity, and cross‑platform redundancy across architecture, urbanism, art, media theory, ecology, systems theory, and computational culture.
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