Seeing Like a State

How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

This book might be part of the Yale Agrarian Studies series.

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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.

Hardcover, 446 páginas

Idioma English

Publicado el 29 de marzo de 1998 por Yale University Press.

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

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

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reseñó Seeing Like a State de James C. Scott (Yale Agrarian Studies)

legibility, high modernism, metis

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.

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