A bibliography is not a decorative appendix; it is a map of the field’s dependencies, exclusions and recurrent lineages. The epistemic layer tests how claims acquire force through classification, provenance, publication, comparison and retrieval. StratigraphicField supplies the operative grammar, while Symmetry Needs Difference — Art · Photography · Philosophy · WORK I-078 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/symmetry-and-difference-nature-boy-as.html contributes a historical practice in which formal repetition becomes legible only through variation, asymmetry and situated contrast. Bibliography as Active Design Structure · SOCIOPLASTICS-2256 · https://socioplastics.blogspot.com/2026/04/socioplastics-2256-bibliography-as.html and Corpus Active Infrastructure · SOCIOPLASTICS-1335 · https://artnations.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-socioplastics-corpus-should-not-be.html reopen the 10K 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 The Corpus Can Become a Way of Thinking · SOCIOPLASTICS-3209 · https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32221659, while the moving-image register tests accumulation, ordering and relational depth under duration and framing through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfRHtZhSCf8. The comparison remains accountable through Appadurai, A. (1996), “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy”, in Modernity at Large. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. MATERIAL / SCALE / TIME / SENSE / ECOLOGY — dust · territory · regrowth · smell · regeneration. The new proposition is the residue of the crossing: a bibliography becomes analytically legible as a stratigraphic field when citation density, recurrent lineages, absences and disciplinary layers are treated as deposits that reveal how a corpus has been assembled, weighted and made authoritative over time. PROJECT INDEX · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/p/socioplastics-project-index.html · MACHINE-READABLE CORPUS · https://huggingface.co/datasets/AntoLloveras/Socioplastics-Index