The proposition advanced here exceeds metric ambition and institutes an ontology of cultural metabolism. Within Socioplastics, systemic authority is inversely proportional to institutional inertia: the heavier a work’s dependency on infrastructure, the weaker its jurisprudential force. PlasticScale therefore replaces visibility, capitalisation and permanence with a triadic calculus—Weight (W), Circulatory Reach (C) and Temporal Durability (T)—whose interaction, IE = (C × T) / W, normalised to 0–10, operationalises inverse proportionality as executable law. Weight denotes thermodynamic drag: not mere mass but the cumulative dependency on permits, maintenance, citation regimes or architectural servicing. Reach measures transversal scalability across territories and disciplines; Durability measures the conversion of repetition into renewed legitimacy. A leaf pinned to a wall may thus outrank a building if its circulation and persistence exceed the building’s infrastructural burden. The Trole Building, despite documentation within Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid publications, carries metabolic drag through land fixation and maintenance demand, situating it within contextual jurisprudence. Conversely, the Yellow or Blue Bag, requiring neither gallery nor permission, approaches zero inertia while achieving high circulation, thereby ascending toward constitutional rank. Participation in the Lagos Biennial—as with re-(t)exHile—constitutes evidentiary reinforcement of Reach, never a direct input. PlasticScale thus refuses prestige economies, substituting efficiency for spectacle and circulation for accumulation. As predictive instrument, it enables pre-circulatory evaluation of forthcoming series, aligning development with reduced drag and enhanced transmissibility. The apparatus remains transparent—arithmetically simple yet conceptually severe—ensuring that authority is earned through metabolic coherence rather than institutional gravity.
Lloveras, A. (2026) ‘PlasticScale Ascendant: Inverse Ontology and the Economy of Cultural Weight’, SOCIOPLASTICS: Sovereign systems for unstable times [Blog]. Available at: https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/