Seeing Like a State

“If you're really interested in how infrastructure has the capacity to control and truly just how states sort of see things, I have to of course recommend the classic Jamesc.”

“And here's where I think James C. Scott had a rather negative characterization of Espiranto as a purely high modernist endeavor as though all Espiranes sought to make Espiranto the official international language. In seem like a state, he claims that Espiranto was created to replace the dialects and vernaculars of Europe.”

“When I saw that I remember reading seem like a state some years ago and I probably glossed over that but in doing the research for this I ended up you know stumbling upon it again and I was like after reading the history I was like this isn't quite accurate.”

“I think as um most interes see seeing like a state is just a fantastically book I I he just passed away you probably saw that on Twitter it's yes yesterday or so a couple days ago um yeah what a fantastic mind and like a I I know no um it is one of those books you read which”

“I think that James C. Scott's most popular work, Seeing Like a State, is also, unfortunately, his, I would say, weakest work.”

“Yeah, I was born in China's most mountainous province and I am still very much attracted to mountains in part because of the works of political scientist and anthropologist James C. Scott of Yale University. His best known work is seeing like a state in which Scott wrote about how the state really tries to organize the population in order”

“so this is from the book uh seeing like a state he said that the state tries to make taxpayers legible”

“One of the main aims of the state, and this is from the book, seeing like a state, he said that the state tries to make taxpayers legible.”

“You know, um James C. Scott talks about this in seeing like a state. You can't just the in these states they they they start these sort of forestry projects. They they they try to legible legibleize you know these forests these simple rows”

“in fact there's a book called seeing like a state which actually talks about the origins of surnames and whatnot”

“Beijing's urban design looks like something straight out of James Scott's Seeing Like a State.”

“You know the old book James Scott seeing like a state, right? That the state has to make things legible to itself.”

“I keep going back to um James Scott, Seeing Like a State, which is, you know, an amazing book. If people haven't read it, absolutely pick up a copy.”

“I just want to recommend this this book that Elan and mock but actually recommend it to me so I'm just totally jacking from them that I I came to love it more than they ever will it's called seeing like a state by Jim Scott”

“a thing in a sense like anything great is messy building anything great is messy and so if you look at like you know an art studio or an operating room or you know my favorite example just from seeing like the state”

“the idiosyncrasies of your situation are more relevant than you think like you can't truly describe your whole situation in like an hour or something like it's you know a lot more use and credited stuff than you think”