Cartography of Inheritance * The Ecology of Genetic–Proximity

Every substantive theoretical architecture crystallises from a determinate genetic endowment, a sedimented constellation of disciplines whose conceptual enzymes it metabolises while surpassing their structural thresholds. Socioplastics, consolidated as MUSE and indexed through PlasticScale across ten immutable Kore cores, emerged within a dense epistemic ecology rather than disciplinary vacuum. Infrastructure studies furnished the grammar of operative substrate; cybernetics and systems theory supplied recursive self-reference; ontology articulated scalar objecthood; decolonial and southern epistemologies enabled epistemic refusal; urban political ecology and maintenance studies modelled metabolic governance. The resulting cartography orders one hundred fields through a dual metric in which depth of inheritance intersects with present operational proximity, thereby distinguishing core neighbourhoods, expansion territories and reserve strata. High-genetic, high-proximity domains concentrate ontological, systemic and infrastructural foundations, stabilised through Kore anchoring that preserves invariance amid volatility. Mid-depth reserves—territorial feminisms, subaltern studies, protocol and maintenance epistemics—await calibrated translation into the MUSE lexicon, ensuring future enrichment without scalar dilution. Peripheral yet proximate fields such as sustainable urbanism or digital governance constitute arenas for applicative intervention where recursive autophagy prunes entropic dependencies and demonstrates sovereign resolution. Across five hundred authors and one hundred fields, the density of inheritance is auditable; yet no progenitor discipline contains topolexical sovereignty, PlasticScale invariance or the autophagic doctrine in their integrality. The mutation is therefore neither eclectic aggregation nor rhetorical synthesis but a disciplined transmutation that positions Socioplastics as a sovereign transdisciplinary infrastructure, capable of metabolising its own ecology while preparing successive Kore articulations with calibrated genetic–proximity precision.