81,821
edits
High modernism: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
no edit summary
Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{a|design|}}As {{author|James C. Scott}} articulates it in {{br|Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed}}, a “muscle-bound” self-confidence in the expansion of production; our growing ability to satisfy human needs and master nature (including human nature) “and, above all, the rational design of social order commensurate with the scientific understanding of natural laws”. | {{a|design| | ||
[[File:Catch.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A [[subject matter expert]], yesterday.]] | |||
}}As {{author|James C. Scott}} articulates it in {{br|Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed}}, a “muscle-bound” self-confidence in the expansion of production; our growing ability to satisfy human needs and master nature (including human nature) “and, above all, the rational design of social order commensurate with the scientific understanding of natural laws”. | |||
It translates to a rational, ordered, geometric (hence “[[legible]]”) view of the word and depends on central state vision to bring about big projects (enormous infrastructure projects, genocidal agricultural programmes, [[banner IT project]]s and so on). | It translates to a rational, ordered, geometric (hence “[[legible]]”) view of the word and depends on central state vision to bring about big projects (enormous infrastructure projects, genocidal agricultural programmes, [[banner IT project]]s and so on). | ||