James C. Scott
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Political scientist and anthropologist (1936 to 2024) whose Seeing Like a State (1998) explained how states' schemes to make society legible and planned have…
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Planners mistake visual order for efficiency and working order (opens korrents.com)
“In the course of writing Seeing Like a State, I was struck again and again by the mistaken assumption that visual order is synonymous with efficiency and working order.”
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Extreme high modernism needs the absence of democratic resistance (opens korrents.com)
“The modernist vision requires for its high modernism, for its most extreme examples, the absence of the restraining factors of democratic social organization—resistance.”
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The state will not be abolished: anarchism deserves two cheers, not three (opens korrents.com)
“I call myself a sort of “half-assed anarchist,” and that's why the book that I wrote was called Two Cheers for Anarchism, not three cheers. I don't think we're going to abolish the state.”
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Planners mistake visual order for efficiency and working order (opens korrents.com)