From Sam[ ]zdat to Ribbonfarm, one of the ideas underlying much of the criticism of rationalists (and by extension, the modernists) is James C. Scott's concept of metis, advanced in 1998's Seeing Like A State. The idea is grounded in two priors: first, that the world is complicated; second, that the complexity of worldly domains… Continue reading Metis-First Editing
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Superstates
I don't buy the intentionalist tone here, though I can imagine there being a natural attraction toward, and desire for, control emanating from the State which slowly leads us to the same place. Anyway, what I think's important about this passage is that it illuminates the way the local cultures of a relationship, of a… Continue reading Superstates
