Seeing Like a State — Legibility, Control, and Systemic Failure (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time.
This episode explores Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott as a systems-level analysis of how administrative simplification enables control while undermining resilience.
By examining legibility, high-modernist planning, and the loss of local knowledge, the book reveals why engineered order often collapses under real-world complexity.
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