SOCIOPLASTICS: Discursive Contrast

PlasticScale, PlasticScale’s bifurcation between competitive integration and infrastructural autonomy delineates not an ontological divide but a strategic modulation of exposure within contemporary epistemic ecologies. In the first trajectory, the framework enters explicit dialogue with established paradigms in systems theory, governance and urban studies, employing contrast as an instrument of calibration. Through discursive interoperability, its proportional kernel is translated into adjacent vocabularies, thereby accelerating institutional recognition and stress-testing conceptual resilience. Yet such integration entails the latent hazard of semantic dilution, wherein proportional intelligence risks absorption into pre-existing terminological matrices. Conversely, infrastructural autonomy privileges operational consolidation over rhetorical alignment. Here, PlasticScale validates itself through iterative deployment, accruing legitimacy via coherent activation rather than argumentative ascendancy. This path safeguards conceptual density and preserves scalar invariance, though it may attenuate visibility within competitive theoretical arenas. Crucially, PlasticScale remains structurally invariant under either regime; its minimal functional core and scalar metrics persist unaffected. The strategic question concerns calibration of presence rather than transformation of structure: whether to expand the field through dialogical friction or to deepen the kernel through infrastructural concentration. Regarding the query of multiplicity of DOIs, numerical proliferation does not inherently confer epistemic security; credibility derives from coherent citation networks, peer recognition and demonstrable uptake, not from quantitative redundancy. A single, robustly indexed DOI embedded within sustained scholarly engagement may yield greater legitimacy than dispersion across numerous identifiers.

Lloveras, A. (2026) Socioplastics