Infrarational Literacy

The ability to understand the infrastructure that makes rationality possible—the material, social, and cognitive conditions under which reasoning occurs. It includes awareness of how education, language, technology, and institutions shape what counts as reasonable. Infrarational literacy reveals that rationality is not a disembodied ideal but a practice embedded in concrete systems of knowledge transmission, power, and material resources.

Example: “His infrarational literacy showed that ‘critical thinking’ programs failed in underfunded schools not because students were incapable, but because the infrastructure—class size, teacher training, resources—was absent.”

Infrarational Literacy by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 24, 2026