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Notes from Seeing Like a State
Scott, James C.. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition.
The book has been expertly reviewed here (and less so here), so I will not add my own incompetent review to the pile.
I will offer instead some of my highlights and notes I took while reading it. This is a book with a somewhat narrow focus on “authoritarian high-modernism” (a wonderful phrase) in the context of states, but just a little bit of contemplation goes a long way to form an expansive reconsideration of authority in almost any social organization.