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imagineutopia

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avatar image is Sarah Levy's (www.sarahlevyart.com/) portrait of Ursula K LeGuin (which I think makes her look wonderfully like a bog body) frequent reader/occasional writer/even less frequent musician/recovering academic/libertarian socialist/Ⓐnarchist/library worker reads and writes in English theory, poetry, history, movement literature, reportage, literary studies, cultural studies, Indigenous studies, Black studies, diaspora studies, anti/de/post-colonialism, ecological thought/thinking/criticism reading account of @good-enough-revolutionary@write.as

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finished reading Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott (Yale Agrarian Studies)

James C. Scott: Seeing Like a State (Hardcover, 1998, Yale University Press)

Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian high-modernist planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased …

Reading this (a classic) feels a little like watching a classic film. I know the main arguments already since they're now often treated as givens in most of what I read, and therefore how I understand the world. The original text however, provides a lot of evidence I lacked previously and a historical sampling that deepend my knowledge considerably.