If coherence no longer depends upon a central origin, neither can authority. The legitimacy of a conceptual field cannot reside indefinitely in a founding declaration if every subsequent articulation contributes to its continued existence. Authority must therefore emerge from the organisation of the network itself, accumulating through the consistency with which distinctions remain operational as they circulate across expanding territories and increasingly complex relations.

Latour's notion of circulating reference demonstrates that the strength of a claim depends upon the continuity of the transformations linking it to an expanding network rather than upon the permanence of its initial formulation. Foucault shows that discourse acquires legitimacy through distributed regimes of practice, archives, and institutional conditions that exceed individual authorship. Malabou's concept of plasticity introduces the final requirement: enduring forms preserve their recognisability precisely because they remain capable of receiving, redistributing, and generating new configurations without abandoning their structural identity. These perspectives converge on a common proposition. Authority is neither inherited from origins nor guaranteed by institutions. It emerges whenever the same operational grammar continues producing compatible distinctions across new contexts without sacrificing formal precision. Every successful recurrence strengthens the field; every failed recurrence weakens its internal consistency. Socioplastics is organised according to this principle. Its elementary unit is not the proposition but the distinction; its territory is continuously produced rather than occupied; its coherence arises recursively rather than hierarchically; and its authority accumulates nowhere in particular because it is continually reconstructed everywhere the same grammar becomes operative. A conceptual system ultimately endures not because it protects an immutable beginning, but because its smallest gesture remains capable of generating an indefinitely expanding architecture of recognisable differences.