Residents of the city of Kazan (Russia, the Republic of Tatarstan) have united in the "Poputka Kazan" telegram channel to give a ride to those who do not have travel codes on city buses.
This channel is located at the Internet address: https://t.me/poputka16
The authorities promise to detain such vehicles by the police and to punish drivers and passengers.
The ban on public transport without a covid vaccination card was introduced on November 22, 2021.
Просмотр «Гаражники: дым промежуточной техники и зеркала социологических концепций» (hse.ru)
Garagenicks: Smoke from Intermediate Technology and Mirrors of Sociological Concepts
Book review: Seleev S., Pavlov A. (2016) Garazhniki [Garagenicks], Moscow: OZ Land;
Pavlov A. (2016) Demon peremen. Vvedeniye v operativnuyu alkhimiyu rossijskoj zhizni [The Demon of Change. Introduction to the Operational Alchemy of Russian Life], Ul’yanovsk: Pavlov A.B.
D. KHAUSTOV*
*Dmitry Khaustov – PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Department of Finance and Accounting, Irkutsk State Transport University. Address: 15, Chernishevskij St., Irkutsk, 664074, Russian Federation. E-mail: dmitry.khaustov1982@mail.ru
Citation: Khaustov D. (2018) Garagenicks: Smoke from Intermediate Technology and Mirrors of Sociological Concepts. Mir Rossii, vol. 27, no 3, pp. 198–210 (in Russian). DOI: 10.17323/1811-038X-2018-27-3-198-210
Abstract
The so-called ‘informal economy’ and ‘informal employment’ have recently attracted a lot of attention from the state, the public, and the academic community. While the interest of the state is driven primarily by pragmatic fiscal considerations, the general public and the academic community seek to understand the Russia that lies beyond the ring of Moscow. The book by Sergey Seleev and Alexander Pavlov, ‘Garagenicks’, definitely contributes to this understanding by exploring informal economic relations in garage-building cooperatives. This is a deep socio-anthropological study relying on numerous field studies of the garage economy in a number of cities in the European part of Russia. In a separate, smaller book (written in a more journalistic manner), ‘The Demon of Change’, Alexander Pavlov summarizes other informal knowledge about the phenomena in question and provides additional insights about the grass-root economic practices underpinning the garage economy. The ‘demon’ in the title is a metaphor for the state’s influence on society, i.e. its attempts to organize social and economic reality in such a way that makes the garage economy less convenient to engage with.The review focuses on the parallel analysis of the concepts of ‘the garage economy’ and ‘intermediate technology’. The concept of ‘intermediate technology’ was introduced by the British economist of German origin, Ernst Schumacher, for emerging economies. It unites the techniques and technologies inscribed in the cultural structure of host communities, which are relatively cheap to implement, but at the same time are more expensive than similar available technologies in recipient societies. The author concludes that the garage economy in Russia can be treated as a specific case of appropriate technology in the terms of Ernst Schumacher.
Key words: garagenicks, garage economy, informal employment, informal economy, intermediate technology, appropriate technology, pre-Revolutionary handicraftsmen, Ernst Schumacher
In the project's boundaries: Гаражная экономика в российской провинции — ХАМОВНИКИ (khamovniky.ru)
Yesterday's whatsapp and facebook glitch made me think about alternatives to internet communication and alternatives for social media.
And everything new is well forgotten old. So I chose IRC.
In Russia, the Russian-language IRC network is RusNet. Network settings and the address of the main server are located on the website http://www.rusnet.org.ru/info.html
IRC clients are now available for the Android mobile OS, for example, Revolution IRC, which can be downloaded from various app stores (not necessarily through Google Play): https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.mrarm.irc/
One of the advantages of such a network is that the network does not require registration and does not require a phone number or e-mail address.
The gift economy is an economy in which economic benefits are provided to a client with an influential patron in exchange for a returned gift, a portion of the profits from the client's business [https://youtu.be/HX2M1FDuboI]. As a rule, this involves more severe exploitation of the subordinate than in a market economy. All of this takes place outside of the usual institutional tax mechanism. The origins of such an economic system appeared, apparently, a very long time ago. In many archaic societies, such a system still exists. In the USSR, such a system was hidden and not declared, moreover, it was publicly condemned in words, which did not interfere with its existence. The existence of such a hidden system of "gifts" (purchasing positions) is described in Voslensky's book "Nomenclature" [http://krotov.info/lib_sec/03_v/osl/ensky_0.htm].
In the modern Russian Federation, this economic system, the gift economy, exists in parallel with the emergence of a market economy and a consumption economy, which, apparently, leads to contradictions between the power that emerged from the party nomenclature of the USSR and a new capitalist class. The new capitalist class of the Russian Federation is still subject to the old communist nomenclature and their descendants.
How exactly does it work? The government gives the client permission for any activity. If the client is not included in the circle of people close to the nomenclature (for example, is not a relative) and works without a black kickback (this is not a bribe, but a periodic transfer of money to a representative of the benefactor), then the patron oversees the business and, if it develops successfully, then the business is simply taken away from the owner, and the owner can be killed or imprisoned. Thus, any large successful business must be owned by a certain nomenclature family and managed by its representative.
How does it work in Russian science? Following the successes of Soviet atomic and rocket projects in the 1940s-1960s, the nomenclature viewed scientific positions as a convenient sinecure for their representatives. The descendants of the nomenclature began to head large scientific organizations. This became especially noticeable in the 70-80s. For example, Igor Troitsky wrote about such a case in the third part of the trilogy "Memoirs of the Old PhysTech" [https://7i.7iskusstv.com/y2019/nomer1/troizkij/]. Science is possible only if you receive funding for your research, but if you are embedded in the gift economy, then you must bring part of the funds allocated for science through the back door back to the representative of the patron who controls the distribution of funds. All attempts to obtain funding on their own, over the head of the head of a scientific organization, are harshly suppressed. If, nevertheless, there is an opportunity to receive funds from an independent grant, then conditions are created in a state scientific or educational institution that impede the implementation of a scientific project.
To date, there are almost no scientific foundations in the Russian Federation that support independent research. For example, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research was transferred to the Russian Science Foundation, which limited the economic freedom of research that the Russian Foundation for Basic Research had. After receiving money from a foreign scientific foundation, an individual can be recognized as a “foreign agent” and held accountable.
This situation is not conducive to engaging in scientific activities in the Russian Federation. There is no way out of this situation. Simply accepting the existing "rules of the game" is not an option. The goal of science in Russia is to receive "gifts" from a position, and not to seek the truth and not to benefit from scientific developments. To some extent, science can be used for the Russian military. If you are at the bottom of the food chain (the definition of social Darwinism), then such activities will not bring joy, moral satisfaction, or money, but only a broken life, financial problems at the end of a career, and health problems. Therefore, if possible, you need to look for a means of survival in another area. And to work for the sake of science for the soul is necessary where it is really in demand.
A very interesting telegram channel about the peculiarities of Russian science and survival in it.
Materials are published about Russian scientific life, competition, and how one cannot be food for more successful colleagues:
America's Army 2.8.5 - Downloads (google.com)
In addition to the list of free games available in my online magazine: camper: Бесплатные игры (3d-camper.blogspot.com)
This game was version 2.5 and was available on sourceforge as an assist, but now there is no way to play, because the server is down and all accounts have disappeared.
There was a big glitch on the Runet all last week. The sites of state services (gosuslugi) do not work, the site of the technopoint company does not load, errors occur when clicking on the link to the site of the citilink company, and there are no telephone operators in Sberbank.
SKS in the .336 TKM caliber and the relatively smoothbore drilled in oval bore (Lancaster) are becoming a very interesting option for civilian weapons. However, SCS has its weaknesses. Of particular note is the not very successful way of attaching the weapon to a wooden butt, and the wooden butt itself is rather weak. At the same time, semi-handicraft methods of installing a warhead of a weapon in a stock made of modern materials according to the bullpup scheme appear on the market.
As a rule, the installation of a warhead in a bullpup box does not provide for alteration of the weapon and is installed "as is." Although it is envisaged to install a non-standard magazine from a Kalashnikov assault rifle with revision: welding the front "tooth" to the magazine.
Of course, all this is handicraft, and I would like the manufacturers of weapons to launch a modernized carbine on the market, immediately assembled into a bullpup box.
If we look at the warhead of the carbine, we will see that the firing mechanism can be modified.
1) Remove the trigger and its protection;
2) place the percussion mechanism in a metal box (casing);
3) and it is necessary to modify the mount to the receiver.
This way you can protect it from dirt.
4) Since the trigger in the bullpup scheme is attached to the before of the magazine, the trigger lever and the trigger can be connected using a cable (similar of cable brake) through which the pulling force can be transmitted. The cable can be protected by placing it inside a tube or coil spring, passing it through the side of the magazine through a special groove in the stock. The firing mechanism in the SKS is a detachable part and such modification is quite possible.
I am not a supporter of replacing the regular magazine of SKS with a removable one, as for AK in civilian weapons. It seems to me that the standard way of reloading with clips is very successful for hunting or self-defense. The magazine is always in place and you do not need to look for it, it will not get lost, and the clip, with proper skill, can be inserted very quickly.
It would be nice if the Molot company presented such a design on the civilian weapons market.
1. https://military.wikireading.ru/957
4. https://www.dmazay.ru/index.php?productID=6242
