Socioplastics is not simply interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary. Those words still assume that disciplines remain the main units of movement. Socioplastics is better understood as paradisciplinary and trans-operational: it works beside established disciplines, after their strongest closures, and turns their major figures, concepts and materials into operators for a new field. It is not a bridge between disciplines, but a choreography of bodies, cities, techniques, images, objects, archives, institutions and texts that begin to function together.

Socioplastics works with dead tracks: disciplinary lines that reached a point of closure, exhaustion or maximum density. Instead of treating them as ruins, it reconnects them. Bourdieu’s field, Foucault’s archive, Deleuze’s machine, Lefebvre’s space, Duchamp’s object, Beuys’s social sculpture, Beckett’s exhausted body, Haraway’s situated cyborg and Koolhaas’s congested city become switch points in a new ParaDiscipline. Socioplastics does not revive the old disciplines as they were; it joins their dead tracks into a new associative railway where body, city, technique, image, object, institution and text begin to move together.