The Deep Archive

The Research Pipeline

The Deep Archive represents the bibliographic foundation of my work. It is the roadmap of the analyses I am presently developing – the texts I am dismantling to recover their structural nodes and practical applications for the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE).

I am processing a multi-year research queue divided into four functional pillars:

• Foundational Theory: The economic and sociological bedrock of the practice.
• Historical Audits: Recovering the specific mechanics of early mutualist movements.
• Modern Analysis: Critiques of digital capitalism, media bias, and urban rent.
• Technical Frameworks: Translations and audits of legal, financial, and metric systems.

This bibliography provides transparency into my methodology, allowing practitioners to see the specific texts that inform my live work.

I. Foundational Theory

• Thorstein Veblen | The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904): A look at how financial 'sabotage' prioritises absentee profit over industrial efficiency. [Review]
• Karl Polanyi | The Great Transformation (1944): Analysing the 'Double Movement' to understand how the SSE can re-embed the economy in social relations. [Review]
• Simone Weil | The Need for Roots (1943): An enquiry into the spiritual and structural requirements for a non-extractive social order. [Review]
• Peter Kropotkin | Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902): Recovering the biological and sociological evidence for cooperation as a primary evolutionary driver. [Review]
• Shawn Wilbur | The Libertarian Labyrinth: A navigator's guide to the premier archive of 19th-century mutualist thought and the Neo-Proudhonian revival. [Review]

II. Historical Audits

• The Rochdale Society | The Original 1844 Statutes: A recovery of the technical rules that birthed the modern cooperative movement. [Review]
• William Morris | News from Nowhere: Auditing the economics of 'pleasurable labour' vs the productivist obsession of state socialism. [Review]
• Elisée Reclus | Evolution & Revolution: A review of Reclus's lecture, arguing that revolution is not a rupture but the accelerated phase of a long evolutionary process. [Review]
• Camillo Berneri | Worker-Worship: A translation of L'operaiolatria, critiquing the fetishisation of the proletariat. [Translation]
• Juliette Adam | Anti-Proudhonian Ideas: A forensic translation of a key feminist response to Proudhon. [Translation]
• Ricardo Flores Magón | Manifesto to the Workers of the World: Tracking the transition of mutualist thought into the Mexican revolutionary context. [Translation]
• Antero de Quental | The Discourse at the Lisbon Casino: Reviving a foundational text of Portuguese socialism to demonstrate the long historical roots of the modern solidarity economy. [Translation]
• Shaun Murdock | The Market Anarchists (Warren, Greene, Tucker): A consolidated audit of the 'left-market' lineage, tracing the path from Josiah Warren’s 'Cost Limit of Price' to Kevin Carson. [Analysis]

III. Modern Analysis (Media, Digital, Urban)

• Shaun Murdock | Data Reciprocity: A policy paper on AI, proposing 'Data Royalties' and collective licensing as a response to the digital enclosure. [Analysis]
• Shaun Murdock | 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. [Analysis]
• Shaun Murdock | 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. [Analysis]
• Shaun Murdock | The Urban Commons: Analysing how proximity creates value, and how Community Land Trusts (CLTs) capture that value for the neighbourhood rather than the landlord. [Analysis]
• Shaun Murdock | Solidarity and Balance: Connecting European Mutualism to global concepts like Buen Vivir (Andes) and Ubuntu (Southern Africa). [Analysis]
• The Red Nation | The Red Deal: A review of Indigenous strategies for climate justice and non-state sovereignty. [Review]
• Knowles / Sandström | Political Economy from Below: A comparative review mapping non-state strategies for economic governance. [Review]

IV. Technical Frameworks & Compliance

• Shaun Murdock | Social Fidelity: A methodology for translating mission-locked financial data without diluting its political intent. [Analysis]
• Shaun Murdock | Impact Reporting Lexicon: Decoding the new acronyms of ethical banking (IAF, PCAF, CSRD) for the social economy. [Methodology]
• Herman Bril | Sustainable Investing: A critique of ESG frameworks, analysing the gap between 'Sustainable Finance' rhetoric and the reality of asset allocation. [Review]
• Nadine Richez-Battesti et al. | Scope and Limits of Ecosystem Analysis: A translation of the seminal paper on French PTCEs (Pôles territoriaux de coopération économique). [Translation]
• Miguel De la Fuente | The Basque Cooperative Movement After the Split: An analysis of the recent tensions within the Mondragon Corporation (Orona/Ulma). [Translation]
• Mikel Barba-Del Horno | Towards a Digital Post-Capitalism: Connecting the solidarity economy to the creation of digital commons. [Translation]
• Abad-Itoiz & Solórzano-García | SROI Analysis in Gender Equality Projects: A critical translation auditing the subjectivity of monetising social impact. [Translation]
• Shaun Murdock | The Architecture of Reciprocity: A technical audit of B2B social currencies like the WIR (Switzerland) and Sardex (Italy). [Analysis]