diff --git a/seeing-like-a-state.md b/seeing-like-a-state.md index a8417caf6..fa8dbd712 100644 --- a/seeing-like-a-state.md +++ b/seeing-like-a-state.md @@ -1,19 +1,18 @@ # Seeing Like a State - __**Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed**__ is a book by [James C. Scott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Scott) critical of a system of beliefs he calls [high modernism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_modernism), that centers around confidence in the ability to design and operate society in accordance with [scientific laws](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_laws).[[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State#cite_note-1)[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State#cite_note-nyt-review-2) -- https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1279479233316827136 +- [[go]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1279479233316827136 - Introduction - - p1 This book grew out of an intellectual detour that became so gripping that I decided to abandon my original itinerary altogether. - - Originally set out to "understand why the state has always seemed to be the enemy of "people who move around", to put it crudely. - - Gypsies, berbers, bedouins, vagrants, homeless, serfs "have always been a thorn in the side of states". - - Efforts to permanently settle these mobile people are perennial and seldom succeed. - - p2 on many of these schemes: "the state's attempt to make a society legible, to arrange the population in ways that simplified the classic state functions of taxation, conscription and prevention of rebellion". Creation of grids. - - Beekeeping as an analogy. Industrial hives are made regular, segregated. - - p3 [[Chandigarth]] - - + - p1 This book grew out of an intellectual detour that became so gripping that I decided to abandon my original itinerary altogether. + - Originally set out to "understand why the state has always seemed to be the enemy of "people who move around", to put it crudely. + - Gypsies, berbers, bedouins, vagrants, homeless, serfs "have always been a thorn in the side of states". + - Efforts to permanently settle these mobile people are perennial and seldom succeed. + - p2 on many of these schemes: "the state's attempt to make a society legible, to arrange the population in ways that simplified the classic state functions of taxation, conscription and prevention of rebellion". Creation of grids. + - Beekeeping as an analogy. Industrial hives are made regular, segregated. + - p3 [[Chandigarth]] - Chapter one - - On forestry as a model for the analysis of schemes that it proposes. -- + - On forestry as a model for the analysis of schemes that it proposes. [//begin]: # "Autogenerated link references for markdown compatibility" -[Chandigarth]: chandigarth "Chandigarth" +[go]: go "Go" +[chandigarth]: chandigarth "Chandigarth" [//end]: # "Autogenerated link references"