Stuff of mine I found while looking through Livejournal for my graduation date. Thinking analytically about this kind of stuff is painful and feels futile these days.
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Seeing Like a State; economics and anarchy
I've been reading James Scott's "Seeing Like a State", partly on the suggestion of my undergrad advisor. It, or at least the first two ( Read more... )

I've been reading James Scott's "Seeing Like a State", partly on the suggestion of my undergrad advisor. It, or at least the first two chapters of it, are an overview of how modernist principles of control (largely in the interests of efficient extraction of value, whether from productive resources like forests or from citizenry in the form of ( Read more... )