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James Scott book Jiang uses to explain state legibility, planning, and the destruction of spontaneity and local knowledge.
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Seeing Like a State
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The James Scott book Jiang invokes to frame bureaucracy as a system that reorganizes society into administratively legible forms.
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"um a book that I would recommend uh to your listeners is seeing the state by James Scott yeah he makes the argument that..."
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"defied reality they fought against reality so even though the nazis were losing the war even though it's clear they cannot defeat the soviet..."
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"it's an excellent book by the way uh called seeing like a state and he's trying to explain to us how properties blockages work..."
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"...the Discord user Johnson44. Five, who says, I started reading seeing like a state for your recommendation. Are there other books you recommend for..."
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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A source-grounded reading of bureaucracy as institutional death: university comfort replaces education, administrators turn complaints into jobs, managers feed on organizations like parasites, and the only exit left to students is real knowledge outside...
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This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...
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