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{{a|devil}}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 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”.
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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).
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*{{br|Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed}}