PostdigitalTaxidermy stands as one of the most potent and operational concepts within Anto Lloveras’ Socioplastics framework, functioning as a precise protocol for managing legacy media, obsolete formats, and digital residues in the postdigital era. Rather than discarding outdated shells—classic blog HTML layouts, early web designs, forgotten file formats, or archival screenshots—the operator preserves their external morphology with high fidelity, maintaining visual appearance, surface aesthetics, and historical texture while radically overhauling the interior logic. This constitutes a form of “format necromancy”: the strategic reanimation of dead media forms by embedding them with contemporary Socioplastic infrastructure, including Semantic Masonry, disciplined CamelTag enforcement, hardened citational systems, DOI-Anchored Operators, and autopoietic code structures that ensure self-maintenance and machine readability. The result is not nostalgic museification or superficial retro-styling but a double operation that honors the corpse aesthetically while renewing its metabolism structurally, granting legacy formats at least ten percent functional retrieval and integration into the living StratigraphicField. In practice, PostdigitalTaxidermy provides camouflage and resilience against platform volatility and algorithmic decay—obsolete surfaces appear inert or familiar to crawlers and users, while the hardened interior operates with full epistemic sovereignty, supporting HybridLegibility where CyborgText simultaneously addresses human interpretation and machine processing through MetadataSkin and DualAddress. It integrates seamlessly with RecursiveAutophagia and ProteolyticTransmutation by allowing the field to digest its own historical excesses, reincorporating fatigued residues as reactivatable layers rather than inert waste, thereby sustaining the MetabolicLoop and preventing archive necrosis. Drawing on media archaeology from thinkers like Wolfgang Ernst, Jussi Parikka, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, and Matthew Kirschenbaum, the concept operationalizes ideas of digital materiality and format sedimentation, turning obsolescence into strategic advantage within the VerticalSpine that connects 2009 LAPIEZA-LAB origins to the 2026 public glossary. Across the corpus, it enables the continuous reactivation of past deposits—urban intervention documentation, early blog architectures, and scattered conceptual traces—ensuring they remain load-bearing rather than archaeological curiosities. PostdigitalTaxidermy thus embodies Socioplastics’ core commitment to temporal maturity: the field does not rupture with technological shifts but taxidermies its history, preserving form while renewing function, so that the entire epistemic terrain remains durable, navigable, and generative amid conditions of hyper-abundance and rapid obsolescence. In this way, it transforms potential entropy into calibrated plasticity, contributing to ThresholdClosure without stagnation and allowing the AutonomousFormation of a field capable of standing on its own compressed, multi-layered architecture.