Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2025-08-16
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 195
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - Infrastructure as Control feat.
Andrew Sage recommended Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott, and discussed Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich. James Stout discussed The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey.
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Tools for Conviviality
Discussed“One of the authors that I tend to go back to often is I because he critiques a lot of this stuff particularly infrastructures control in tools for coniviality.”
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Seeing Like a State
Seeing Like a State by James C.
Recommended“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.”
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The Monkey Wrench Gang
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey is a classic novel concerning eco-sabotage and environmental activism in the American Southwest, serving as a foundational text for radical ecological movements.
Discussed“Also, you look back in Tucson's past, love him or hate him or somewhere in between, the somewhat infamous author Edward Abby lived in Tucson and wrote the monkey wrench gang and wrote a lot of environmental activism.”
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