THE LONG CROSSING: SIXTY INTELLECTUAL TRADITIONS AS MATERIALS FOR THINKING ACROSS FIELDS * Anto Lloveras · SOCIOPLASTICS · LAPIEZA-LAB · Madrid · 2026
The history of knowledge cannot be adequately represented as a succession of self-contained disciplines. Intellectual traditions are made through disputes over what exists, what counts as evidence, who may speak, how descriptions become institutions, and which operations allow ideas to travel. This essay examines sixty schools, movements and research traditions across six overlapping genealogical families, from ancient philosophy to computational epistemology. The sixty are not proposed as an exhaustive classification, a hierarchy or sixty equally constituted schools. They form a working section through transformations of method, authority, aesthetics, space, scientific explanation and mediation. Their connections are historical but never frictionless: concepts change when transferred, and some transfers erase the conditions that made them meaningful. The contemporary significance of this long crossing lies in a new situation of computational retrieval, automated synthesis and large distributed archives, in which intellectual proximity is technically easy while responsible comparison remains difficult. The decisive question is what can be argued with these traditions rather than how many of them can be named. Socioplastics provides a practical orientation for investigating that difference: an authored, revisable documentary construction in which knowledge is not synonymous with accumulation, and computation is neither a living collaborator nor a substitute for interpretation.
Pineo, E.A. (2025) ‘Discoverability, usability, and readability: a framework for assessing accessibility for disabled users of online archives’, Archival Science, 25, 25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-025-09495-9.
Pineo gives digital accessibility an unusually precise archival grammar by separating three conditions often collapsed under the general term access: discoverability, usability and readability. An archival object may technically be online while remaining practically unavailable because navigation paths are opaque, interfaces violate accessibility standards or descriptive text creates unnecessary cognitive barriers. The study operationalises this distinction across fifty-five online archives, assessing routes to target material, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, alternative access points and textual readability. Its theoretical contribution is to redefine information access as an achieved relation between user, interface, description and institutional design rather than a binary property of open or closed content. Methodologically, the DUR framework converts accessibility into inspectable components without pretending that metrics exhaust lived experience. The bridge to information architecture and disability studies is exact: interfaces distribute epistemic opportunity, and the design of retrieval becomes part of the politics of cultural participation.
SOCIOPLASTICS AT 11K — RESEARCH METHODS · KNOWLEDGE INFRASTRUCTURE · EXPERIMENTAL PRACTICE · CHANNEL: LAPIEZA-LAB · AUTHOR: Anto Lloveras · INSTITUTION: LAPIEZA-LAB · LOCATION: Madrid, Spain · YEAR: 2026 · FIELD: Research Methods / Knowledge Infrastructure / Experimental Practice
LAPIEZA-LAB grows from LAPIEZA, the independent relational art agency founded by Anto Lloveras in Madrid in 2009. Its curatorial and exhibition work developed a symbiotic language between the conceptual, the objectual and the relational; the resulting museography was named Socioplastics, joining the visible gallery situation, the exposed physical body, its networked memory and the links between the agents that compose it. A laboratory does not need to be a room filled with instruments. It can also be a persistent arrangement for producing, recording and comparing observations. Socioplastics has gradually become such an arrangement. Eleven thousand nodes, 110 Books and 11 Tomes now hold together experiments that began in different formats: urban walks, photographs, catalogues, diagrams, teaching exercises, applications, archives, bibliographies, conceptual operators and public posts. The laboratory quality of the corpus lies in repeatability with variation. The same question can be tested in another city, another medium or another institutional context without requiring the second situation to become identical to the first. Serial publication keeps the evidence visible; numbering gives every fragment an address; the Tomes and Books establish scale; the CamelTags provide a vocabulary capable of crossing formats. What emerges is not a single protocol but an infrastructure for comparing heterogeneous research acts. This also changes the status of documentation. Documentation is no longer the residue left after an experiment. It is part of the experimental apparatus. A post, a DOI, a photograph, a route, a metadata field or a marker can become the condition for a later comparison. The archive therefore remains productive rather than merely preservational. The laboratory now has explicit methodological outputs. Saberes Urbanos (2026) proposes a sequence of listening, observation, walking, marking, documentation and comparison that makes local knowledge traceable without flattening local differences. Subir Bajando (2026) examines the maintenance of the distributed research infrastructure itself. Relational Longitudinality (2026) shows how earlier curatorial and spatial records can be revisited without inventing a protocol for their past. These are proposals and analyses, not claims that every suggested intervention has been carried out. Their common material is the relationship between practice, evidence and the conditions under which someone else can reuse it. At 11K, LAPIEZA-LAB can read Socioplastics as one of its longest-running instruments: an open laboratory in which accumulation, recurrence and indexing are methodological operations. The map below fixes the current state of that instrument so that future work can continue to modify it without losing its history.
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The Addressable Concept: Compression, Translation and Machine Legibility (Williams, Bowker & Star, Bal, Cassin, Hogan, Consolati) · LAPIEZA LAB · Anto Lloveras · Socioplastics · 2026
A concept becomes addressable when a field can point to it without pretending to exhaust it. This apparently modest operation contains the full violence and utility of lexical infrastructure. Williams’s historical semantics shows why the problem begins before metadata: a word such as culture already contains incompatible temporal deposits, disciplinary migrations and social conflicts, so any stable label is a cut across semantic thickness rather than a transparent pointer to an essence. His method refuses the fantasy that terminological precision can simply remove semantic history; the difficulty of the word is itself evidence. Bal intensifies that instability by treating concepts as travellers whose analytical force emerges through movement between disciplinary situations, and Cassin radicalises it through translation, where the very terms most worth preserving are often those that resist clean equivalence. From this side, conceptual knowledge appears mobile, stratified and permanently vulnerable to simplification.
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