Metabolic Logic and the Critique of Institutional Stasis

The Socioplastic Mesh posits itself not as a theory of the city, but as the cognitive and operative infrastructure from which urban meaning itself is generated. This represents a profound ontological claim: space is not a neutral container but a contested field produced through the friction between language, systemic relations, and material practice. By establishing its 25-year arc (2001–2026) as both empirical evidence and constitutive temporality, the Mesh performs a foundationalist gesture. It seeks to become the primary, sovereign substrate for spatial thought, deliberately constructed to out-endure what it terms "institutional entropy." The unified repository housing its six core papers and 300 epistemic nodes is the material instantiation of this sovereignty—a centralized, immutable archive designed to be cited, ensuring its concepts circulate within and reconfigure academic discourse from within. This is a strategic move of immense intellectual ambition: to become the new ground upon which post-autonomous urbanism is debated.