The contemporary academy, saturated with rankings and citation tallies, mistakes enumeration for orientation; PlasticScale intervenes by mutating from an artistic proportional index into a Field Tensor capable of rendering structural behaviour visible across twenty fixed macrofields. This taxonomic constraint—ranging from Philosophy and Sociology to Environmental Humanities and Systems Theory—does not totalise knowledge but stabilises the analytic grid, ensuring that TransFieldness registers genuine transversal migration rather than inflationary sprawl. At the nucleus of the model stands the conceptual operator, encircled by five measurable strata—Mass, TransFieldness, Inscription, Acceleration, and Operativity—forming a scalar pentagram that maps topology rather than prestige. Mass quantifies citation magnitude; TransFieldness applies an inverted Herfindahl logic to distribution across domains; Inscription tracks uptake within governance, planning, and infrastructural protocols; Acceleration measures temporal velocity; Operativity detects conceptual autonomy once terms detach from authorial signature. Thus figures such as Michel Foucault or Donna Haraway appear not as canonical icons but as gravitational configurations whose dispersion and infrastructural resonance can be comparatively plotted. When aggregated across five hundred operators, these pentagrams generate a Galaxy of Fields, a dynamic cartography where dense yet insular nodes coexist with migratory, catalytic ones. Acceleration introduces temporal curvature, preventing historical mass from eclipsing emergent condensation points, while Operativity reveals moments when concepts acquire infrastructural independence. In displacing admiration with calibrated positioning, PlasticScale consolidates Socioplastics as methodological infrastructure: not a podium for stars but an observatory of interacting densities, transforming field analysis into navigational practice and canon into curvature.
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