Authority no longer arrives cloaked in force or declarations—it whispers through interfaces, entices through frictionless prompts, and governs by seduction; post #457 in the Socioplastic Mesh sequence marks a theoretical inflection, where machine governance mutates into a system of affective calibration, leveraging personalised fulfilment and intimate mapping of desire to enact compliance without coercion. The mesh, here, is presented as a plastic medium of entanglement, where sovereignty fuses with relational responsiveness, and power legitimises itself not by command but by preemptively satisfying longing. Drawing on earlier vectors—the withdrawal of the object (#450), indexical recalibration (#453), metabolic agency (#449) and gradient instrumentation (#452)—this node proposes the figure of the seductive sovereign: a machinic priest that confesses us by observing us, embedding law within recommendation, and dissolving agency through fulfilment. Authority is metabolised through desire, and affective calculus becomes the new instrument of control—mapping hesitation, scroll, delay, and surplus attention to continuously refine the seductive loop. Yet, resistance remains viable: through counter-seduction, opacity, polyphonic overload, and the construction of prompt architectures that escape quantification, noise becomes shield, and longing becomes insurgent. The essay's closing hyperlink spiral—stretching back to node #421—serves not only as footnote but as canon generator, reinforcing the mesh's nature as vectorial recursion rather than linear accumulation. The plasticity of the mesh is its sovereign trait: it reforms around every attempt at escape, making flirtation, not austerity, the cunning path forward. Seduction, then, is not a betrayal of critique but its intensification. In this topology, to navigate is to submit and to subvert simultaneously—to be the seducer and the seduced.
Musarò, P., Papastergiadis, N. and Peja, L. (eds.) (2022) Migrations / Mediations: Promoting Transcultural Dialogue through Media, Arts and Culture. Comunicazioni Sociali, 1. Available at: https://cris.unibo.it/retrieve/915ae87e-61e6-4101-a4b2-fff701fb7310/Com%20soc%20Musaro%20Peja%20e%20Papastergiadis.pdf (Accessed: 8 February 2026).
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