Chapter 100: Capital Networks and World-Interior

Economic life is inseparable from social structure. Capital is not only stored money or productive assets; it is a capacity to mobilize resources through institutions, knowledge, and network position. This chapter models exchange as flow on recognition graphs, analyses hub formation and wealth concentration as structural consequences of network dynamics, and develops Sloterdijk’s “world interior of capital” as a large-scale enclosure produced by ubiquitous exchangeability. The Capital Network definition (VII.D78) captures the categorical structure.