E17: James C. Scott’s /Seeing Like a State/, part one
Download MP3An introduction to the core ideas of Scott's /Seeing Like a State/. Three examples. Nothing about software yet.
James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, 1998.
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The Mastodon companion to this podcast: social.oddly-influenced.dev
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Satellite image of Brasilia courtesy Axelspace Corporation, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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