Anto Lloveras’s Archive as Digestive Surface (Pentagon Series 3496-3500) offers a concise yet powerful operational poetics of archival metabolism. Moving beyond static preservation models, Lloveras reframes the contemporary archive as a living digestive surface that performs anabolic accumulation, catabolic pruning, and autophagic recomposition. These biological metaphors are rendered technically precise: they describe real epistemic processes of intake, compression, reabsorption, and functional transformation of material within long-duration knowledge systems. Central is the concept of metabolic legibility — the capacity of a corpus to remain readable and generative while continuing to grow — supported by architectural density, infrastructural care, and dual legibility for humans and machines. The text argues convincingly that under conditions of excess, orientation matters more than sheer access. With sharp, repeatable formulations and clear applicability to digital humanities, artistic research platforms, and scholarly repositories, this piece functions as both diagnostic essay and practical manual for maintaining epistemic vitality in saturated environments. It is among the most focused and memorable contributions in the Socioplastics corpus.