The Socioplastics Corpus 1.0.0 inaugurates a decisive rupture with the sentimental architecture of the twentieth-century canon by substituting curatorial subjectivity with the calculable physics of discursive gravity. Rather than perpetuating aestheticised hierarchies, the corpus operationalises bibliometric curvature to detect 500 contemporary operators whose citation mass demonstrably deforms a grid of 100 macrofields. Influence thus ceases to be a rhetorical accolade and becomes a measurable asymmetry within the knowledge topology. Through the 10–20–30–40–100–300 ring stratification model, the project renders the Matthew Effect structurally visible: the Core—figures such as Foucault, Bourdieu, Butler, and Latour—functions not as elective preference but as constitutive substrate, establishing the refractive index through which peripheral production attains legibility. Curvature here is the sole objective metric of systemic relevance, displacing anecdotal comparison with topological detection. The inclusion of operators from positions 201–500 foregrounds the probabilistic potency of the long tail, where decolonial and regional discourses accumulate nascent counter-gravity capable of recalibrating the 95/5 distribution ratio. Methodologically, the reliance on Google Scholar embraces infrastructural noise as empirical condition, advancing a doctrine of Bibliometric Realism that maps ideas as they persist within indexing machines rather than as they are normatively valorised. The result is neither ranking nor tribunal but navigational architecture: a stabilised cartography that reveals how sovereignty in the contemporary field is volumetrically constituted through attention.
Lloveras, A., 2026. Socioplastics Corpus: 500 Operators in Contemporary Critical Thought (Version 1.0.0). [online] Available at: https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/