James C. Scott, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20186.Seeing_Like_a_State?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=XU2cTVOxWb&rank=1">Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed</a>, 1998.The Mastodon companion to this podcast: <a href="https://social.oddly-influenced.dev/about">social.oddly-influenced.dev</a>CreditsSatellite image of Brasilia courtesy Axelspace Corporation, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Partial_view_of_the_Federal_District,_Brazil_seen_from_space_in_2015.jpg">Wikimedia Commons</a>

James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, 1998. The Mastodon companion to this podcast: social.oddly-influenced.dev Credits Satellite image of Brasilia courtesy Axelspace Corporation, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

James C. Scott, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20186.Seeing_Like_a_State?from_search=true&amp;from_srp=true&amp;qid=XU2cTVOxWb&amp;rank=1" rel="noopener noreferrer">Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed</a>, 1998.The Mastodon companion to this podcast: <a href="https://social.oddly-influenced.dev/about" rel="noopener noreferrer">social.oddly-influenced.dev</a>CreditsSatellite image of Brasilia courtesy Axelspace Corporation, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Partial_view_of_the_Federal_District,_Brazil_seen_from_space_in_2015.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wikimedia Commons</a>

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