Seeing Like a State

How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

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Hardcover, 446 pages

Langue : English

Publié 29 mars 1998 par Yale University Press.

ISBN :
978-0-300-07016-3
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Numéro 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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a publié une critique de Seeing Like a State par 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.

Sujets

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