Metaphors import hidden models: they make one structure of relations easier to imagine while pushing alternatives into the background. The material layer acts as a constraint that redistributes action, memory, access and maintenance. FiguralCompass supplies the operative grammar, while Threads Can Become Critical Infrastructure — Textile Art · Politics · Material Culture · WORK I-059 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/threads-as-critical-infrastructure.html contributes a historical practice in which soft material, repetition and connection operate as political and spatial structure. Imagine a Building That Thinks as Structure · SOCIOPLASTICS-2447 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/04/imagine-building-that-thinks-not-smart.html and System Learns While Building · SOCIOPLASTICS-2407 · https://ciudadlista.blogspot.com/2026/04/socioplastics-2401-system-learns-while.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 Urbanism — Territorial Model · SOCIOPLASTICS-1506 · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19162265, while the moving-image register tests metaphor as orientation, displacement and perceptual drift through Urban Signal Drift · SOCIOPLASTICS-7994 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSQu9pwLkII. The comparison remains accountable through Bender, E.M., Gebru, T., McMillan-Major, A. and Shmitchell, S. (2021), “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?”, in Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. New York: ACM, pp. 610–623, and Brakhage, S. (1963), Metaphors on Vision. New York: Film-Makers’ Cooperative. MATERIAL / SCALE / TIME / SENSE / ECOLOGY — textile · room · daily use · touch · wear. The new proposition is the residue of the crossing: metaphors become analytically legible as figural compasses when they are understood not as decorative language but as directional devices that privilege particular models of relation, scale and causality while making alternative structures harder to perceive. PROJECT INDEX · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/p/socioplastics-project-index.html · MACHINE-READABLE CORPUS · https://huggingface.co/datasets/AntoLloveras/Socioplastics-Index
