AI systems are epistemic infrastructures whose outputs depend on training data, optimisation choices, interfaces and institutional use. The material layer acts as a constraint that redistributes action, memory, access and maintenance. EpistemicLatency supplies the operative grammar, while The Cloud Has a Material Semiotics — Media Studies · Art · Infrastructure · WORK I-062 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-semiotics-of-cloud-active.html contributes a historical practice in which apparently immaterial computation is read through its physical, symbolic and infrastructural conditions. Epistemic Infrastructure — Scalar Functions · SOCIOPLASTICS-2440 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/04/epistemic-infrastructure-scalar.html and Scalar Grammar — Epistemic Latency — Soft Ontology · SOCIOPLASTICS-4375 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/06/scalar-grammar-epistemic-latency-soft.html reopen the archive from two distant positions. A botanical return through Index Hortensis · SOCIOPLASTICS-5970 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/06/index-hortensis.html and Aerial Roots of the Operative Field · SOCIOPLASTICS-8918 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/07/aerial-roots-of-operative-field.html introduces living time, species, care and decay. The DOI fixes one persistent scholarly object through Epistemic Latency — Density Before Detection · SOCIOPLASTICS-2501 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19887288, while the moving-image register tests mediated perception under duration, framing and movement through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLmupj-zk18. The comparison remains accountable through Bryant, A. (2020), “Epistemic Infrastructure for a Scientific Metaphysics”, Grazer Philosophische Studien, 97(1), pp. 1–22, and Chen, B. (2025), “Beyond Tools: Generative AI as Epistemic Infrastructure in Education”, EdArXiv preprint. MATERIAL / SCALE / TIME / SENSE / ECOLOGY — light · network · persistence · brightness · shading. The new proposition is the residue of the crossing: AI becomes analytically legible as epistemic infrastructure when latency is understood not as simple delay but as the interval in which datasets, models, interfaces and institutions accumulate conditions that later appear as immediate machine judgment. PROJECT INDEX · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/p/socioplastics-project-index.html · MACHINE-READABLE CORPUS · https://huggingface.co/datasets/AntoLloveras/Socioplastics-Index
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