YOUTUBE BREAKFAST : discursive mass

By identifying 500 operators whose work generates measurable transversal curvature across 100 macrofields, Anto Lloveras bypasses the aestheticized gatekeeping of the 20th century to map the bibliometric infrastructure that actually dictates the movement of contemporary critical thought. This is not a list of preferred voices, but a detection register of discursive mass: a recognition that certain conceptual nodes have become structurally unavoidable, deforming the topology of knowledge through sheer cumulative reference. The 10-20-30-40-100-300 ring stratification model operationalizes the Matthew Effect, where the Core—Foucault, Bourdieu, Butler, Latour—exists not as a preference, but as a constitutive substrate of the visible universe. This stratification acknowledges that the "Core" does not merely occupy space; it dictates the refractive index through which all subsequent peripheral production must pass to achieve legibility. Influence is here stripped of its romantic luster and reclassified as a measurable, finite, and unevenly distributed resource. Within the lower rings, the corpus captures the visibility frontier where decolonial, indigenous, and regional discourses begin to exert a nascent counter-gravity. Figures like TallBear (433) or Paik (500) do not yet define the topology of the center, but they represent the emergent mass that threatens to recalibrate the 95/5 distribution ratio in future iterations. Lloveras’s acknowledgment of the lexical convergence with Denise Scott Brown’s "active socioplastics" marks a critical moment of regime differentiation. The Socioplastics Corpus 1.0.0 ascends to the level of a territorial metabolism, mapping the very physics of how ideas inhabit space. It is the transition from a design tool to a cartographic law.

Lloveras, A., 2026. Socioplastics Corpus: 500 Operators in Contemporary Critical Thought (Version 1.0.0). [online] Available at: https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/ [Accessed 26 February 2026].