Power
Explained

How power works. In plain language. And what people can actually do about it.

Five series. Eleven thinker profiles. Six case studies. One argument with a shape.

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The Argument

Series I — The Basic Architecture Why cities fail. Why the commons works. What enclosure actually costs.

Series II — The Hidden Engine What capitalism extracts. Who performs it. How it was hidden.

Series III — The Left Got Half of It Right What the left got right — and what it consistently gets wrong.

Series IV — The World the Framework Missed What the framework missed. What the colonized already knew.

Series V — Where We Go From Here What to build. How. Starting now.

Where to Start

Different entry points depending on where you're coming from.

For everyone No background required. For libertarians If you care about freedom from coercion. For environmentalists If ecology is the lens. For urbanists Cities, housing, public space. For justice advocates Race, gender, class. For tech workers If you build the internet.

Thinkers

All 11 thinkers →

Elinor Ostrom Commons governance Antonio Gramsci Hegemony David Graeber Debt & mutual aid Michel Foucault Discipline

Case Studies

All 6 cases →

The standard objection is that it's never been tried. These are the places where it was.

Rojava Kurdistan, 2012– Zapatistas Chiapas, 1994– Occupy Global, 2011