Pocket link

Lengthy PDF discussing how certain technologies such as nuclear power shape power dynamics around them towards authoritarianism.

Available in the latest release.

From an unfinished documentary on Anarchism filmed in 2010. Interesting because it presages the term 'Infrapolitics' by several years. There is a different nuance, but also has a lot in common.

This is a niche topic and I'm not sure this is the right community. Let's say we start to move on to a society less focused on capital. Not perfect but on the way there. There are still companies and there is an overall economy running around small businesses. How would a small business get started without access to "capital"? What are the alternatives?

New book by Yanis Varoufakis

Full text available from the Internet Archive and Void Network.

"The street is always two steps ahead of theory"

-- Benjamin Shepard, PhD., Assistant Professor of Human Services

Paywalled New York Review of Books link

Ostensibly a review of "Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics" by Robert Skidelsky, Occupy Wallstreet economist David Graeber uses the New York Review of Books as a platform to toss intellectual bombs at the foundations of the academic field of economics.

Graeber exposes orthodox economics as an expression of academic politics and institutional power, rather than a sincere practice of science. He dynamites foundational principles like the quantity theory of money, the efficient market hypothesis, and the concept of economic microfoundations themselves.

Perhaps dismal but not science, economics is an ecclesiastical field of infrapolitical struggle, one in which the clergy of its orthodoxy must be toppled to allow science to return and society thrive.

Excerpt:

As a form of infrapolitics, protest graffiti achieve covert victories when they touch the conscience of receptive viewers with their idiosyncratic oppositional meanings. In the final analysis, taking protest graffiti seriously makes it necessary to focus on the interplay between the cultural and political dimensions of dynamics of social protest, and thus points to the problematic gray zone between individual discontent and collective action.

Hope this doesn’t break any rules, I think the discussion of justice is germane to infrapolitics.

https://youtu.be/1lNT0c78ogo