SOCIOPLASTICS 999 · TransEpistemology
Core II
Knowledge crossing, disciplinary mutation and epistemic passage
Author: Anto Lloveras · LAPIEZA-LAB · Madrid · 2026
ORCID: 0009-0009-9820-3319
Node: 999 · Layer: Core II · Series: Socioplastics Working Papers
System ID: SOCIOPLASTICS-CORE-II
Requires: 998-LexicalGravity · Precedes: 1000-StratigraphicField
Version: 2026 · Date: 2026 · License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Slug: socioplastics-999-transepistemology
Zenodo record: https://zenodo.org/records/18999225
Abstract
TransEpistemology defines knowledge as a passage between regimes of legibility. Within Core II of Socioplastics, epistemology is not a closed disciplinary frame but a moving threshold where architecture, urbanism, conceptual art, media theory, ecology and institutional critique cross, contaminate and transform one another.
The prefix trans- is not ornamental; it is operational. It marks the displacement of knowledge across fields, scales, vocabularies and infrastructures. TransEpistemology names the condition in which concepts survive by crossing boundaries rather than by remaining protected inside a single discipline.
Node 999 prepares the culmination of Core II. After lexical gravity has condensed terms into semantic attractors, TransEpistemology opens those terms toward crossing, mutation and stratigraphic deployment. It is the hinge between lexical mass and the final field condition of node 1000.
Keywords
TransEpistemology; Socioplastics; Anto Lloveras; LAPIEZA-LAB; Core II; epistemology; transdisciplinarity; knowledge systems; disciplinary crossing; conceptual mutation; lexical gravity; stratigraphic field; DOI; Zenodo; working papers; architectural theory; urban research; conceptual art; epistemic infrastructure; scholarly indexing.
Trans-Epistemic Operations
CROSS: move concepts across disciplinary, institutional and media boundaries.
TRANSLATE: preserve conceptual force while altering vocabulary, scale and context.
CONTAMINATE: allow heterogeneous fields to modify one another without dissolving into uniformity.
MUTATE: transform knowledge through contact with foreign protocols, materials and audiences.
RE-ANCHOR: stabilise the transformed concept through DOI, citation, PDF and indexable publication.
Core Statement
TransEpistemology converts disciplinary crossing into method. Knowledge becomes powerful when it can move without losing density, mutate without losing memory, and enter new systems without becoming merely illustrative. In Socioplastics, epistemology is not a border but a membrane.
Deployment Context
Transdisciplinary research; architectural theory; urban studies; conceptual art; artistic research; digital humanities; institutional critique; epistemic infrastructure design; scholarly publication systems; experimental pedagogy.
Validation Metric
The node is validated when its concept remains legible across multiple disciplines, publication contexts and indexing systems, operating as both independent paper and connective passage inside Core II.
Autonomy Clause
Node 999 operates as an autonomous trans-epistemic unit within Core II. It may be cited independently as a theory of disciplinary passage while remaining structurally connected to lexical gravity before it and the stratigraphic field after it.
Canonical Citation
Lloveras, A. (2026). Socioplastics 999 · TransEpistemology. LAPIEZA-LAB, Madrid. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18999225.