Seeing Like a State

How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed Yale Agrarian Studies

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Hardcover, 446 pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 29 Marzo 1998 da Yale University Press.

ISBN:
978-0-300-07016-3
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Numero OCLC:
97026556

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Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian high-modernist planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.

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ha recensito Seeing Like a State di James C. Scott

legibility, high modernism, metis

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I enjoyed this greatly and I am dyingggg to know about criticisms of big tech and surveillance capitalism that utilize the concepts in this book—particularly around legibility and the mechanization of people/minds. If you see this and you know of any, plz share! Such a good read for those of us in the interstitial spaces between the provably known and the experientially felt, and for those thinking about the pain and problems of objectivity.

Argomenti

  • Central planning -- Social aspects
  • Social engineering
  • Authoritarianism