How does a critical vocabulary acquire intellectual continuity beyond the immediate force of its formulations? This essay examines four distinct configurations of conceptual production: Geert Lovink and the Institute of Network Cultures (INC), Bruno Latour’s An Inquiry into Modes of Existence (AIME), Mark Fisher’s k-punk, and Socioplastics. Rather than comparing their influence, institutional standing, or numerical scale, it investigates how different editorial and documentary architectures enable concepts to circulate, remain accessible, and undergo reinterpretation. INC develops a collective publishing ecology; AIME articulates a bounded philosophical inquiry extended through digital participation; k-punk establishes conceptual continuity through serial criticism; and Socioplastics constructs a cumulative, numbered corpus connecting artistic practices, territorial investigations, and epistemological propositions. Particular attention is given to markers and operators as instruments of transdisciplinary inquiry, and to the emerging role of machine-mediated retrieval in the interpretation of public research infrastructures. The central argument is that conceptual durability depends neither on terminological proliferation nor on technological visibility alone, but on the demonstrable relations between vocabulary, evidence, editorial organisation, and the possibility of critical revision.