The Deep Archive

The Research Pipeline

The Deep Archive is the structural backbone of the Root & Branch Library. It tracks the primary sources, translations, and forensic audits currently in production.

I have organised the pipeline into three formats:

I. ANALYSES IN PRODUCTION

Original syntheses of digital, urban, and media systems.

• Data Reciprocity: A policy paper on AI, proposing 'Data Royalties' and collective licensing as a response to the digital enclosure.
• The Language of Capture: An analysis inspired by Herman, Chomsky, and Wren-Lewis, auditing how 'Mediamacro' and information filters distort the public narrative of the social economy.
• Platform Co-ops vs. The Digital Enclosure: A critique of 'share-washing' in platform capitalism, contrasting it with the DisCO Manifesto and genuine digital cooperativism.
• The Urban Commons: Analysing how proximity creates value, and how Community Land Trusts (CLTs) capture that value for the neighbourhood rather than the landlord.
• Solidarity and Balance: Connecting European Mutualism to global concepts like Buen Vivir (Andes) and Ubuntu (Southern Africa).
• The Economics of Autonomy: A comparative analysis mapping non-state strategies for economic governance. Contrasting the 'participatory planning' of Sandström's Anarchist Accounting and the communism of Knowles' Political Economy from Below with the mutualist tradition.

II. CRITICAL REVIEWS

Audits of foundational economic and sociological texts.

• Thorstein Veblen | The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904): A look at how financial 'sabotage' prioritises absentee profit over industrial efficiency.
• Karl Polanyi | The Great Transformation (1944): Analysing the 'Double Movement' to understand how the SSE can re-embed the economy in social relations.
• Herman Bril | Sustainable Investing: A critique of ESG frameworks, auditing the gap between 'Sustainable Finance' rhetoric and the reality of asset allocation.
• Peter Kropotkin | Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902): A foundational text for Evolutionary Game Theory. This review analyses the biological evidence for cooperation as a survival strategy.
• Simone Weil | The Need for Roots (1943): A structural framework for auditing Social Uprooting (déracinement) in global supply chains.
• Luis Razeto Migliaro | Solidarity Economy Roads: A structural audit of the Latin American school. Analysing 'Factor C' (Community) as a tangible economic factor of production alongside Land, Labour, and Capital.
• Shawn Wilbur | The Libertarian Labyrinth: A navigator's guide to the premier archive of 19th-century mutualist thought and the Neo-Proudhonian revival.
• The Origins of Contractual Governance (Warren, Greene, Tucker): A forensic audit of the 'Cost Limit of Price' – the 19th-century pricing mechanism that prefigured modern Mutual Credit systems.

III. TRANSLATIONS

Primary sources from the Latin and Mediterranean tradition.

A. The Governance Architecture

• [IT] Italian Parliament: Legge Basevi
• [IT] Commissione Zamagni: Draft Reports for the Reform of the Third Sector
• [FR] French Parliament: The SCIC Statute
• [ES] Basque Government: The Basque 'Social Shield' Strategy
• [ES] Spanish Government: Spanish Social Economy Strategy
• [ES] Solórzano-García: Cooperative Law and Identity
• [FR] Jean-Baptiste André Godin: Social Solutions

B. The Sovereign Circuit (Finance)

• [ES] Climent Diranzo: The Ethical Balance Sheet (Triodos vs. Santander)
• [PT] Cavinato & Capitani: Social Efficiency Metrics (DEA)
• [IT] Banca Etica: The 'Evaluation of Social Value' Protocol
• [ES] Abad-Itoiz: SROI Analysis in Gender Equality
• [ES] Andrews Serrano: Complementary Currencies in Mexico

C. The Ecosystem (Supply Chains)

• [FR] Richez-Battesti et al.: The Territorial Pole
• [ES] Salazar Villano: Public-Social Collaboration
• [ES] Miguel de la Fuente: The Scale Problem
• [CA] Ricard Espelt: Networked Ruralities
• [ES] Barranquero: Sustainability of Media Co-ops
• [ES] Arcos-Alonso: Ecosystems vs. Circuits
• [ES] Barba-del Horno: Digital Post-Capitalism
• [ES] Fuster Morell: Platform Cooperativism Protocol
• [ES] Saguier & Brent: Regionalism & Sovereign Supply Chains

D. The Historical Arguments

• [FR] Fernand Pelloutier: Corporate Organisation and Anarchy
• [IT] Camillo Berneri: Worker-Worship
• [CA] Josep Llunas i Pujals: Social Questions
• [IT] Un amico di Ludd: In the Open Air
• [ES] Ricardo Flores Magón: Manifesto to the Workers of the World
• [PT] Antero de Quental: Discourse at the Lisbon Casino

E. The Reproductive Commons (Care)

• [ES] Teresa Claramunt: Woman (La Mujer)
• [ES] Jiménez-López: Food Sovereignty
• [FR] Jeanne Deroin: Women's Almanac
• [ES] Garganté & Samper: Collaborative Housing for the Elderly
• [ES] Barañano-Uribarri: Representations of Care
• [ES] H. Contreras: Gender Expectations in the SSE