How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed Yale Agrarian Studies
Hardcover, 446 pages
English language
Published March 29, 1998 by Yale University Press.
Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian high-modernist planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.
Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian high-modernist planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.
useful for system-crafters. takes a measured stance on the subject matter. kind of repetitive sometimes.
I enjoyed this greatly and I am dyingggg to know about criticisms of big tech and surveillance capitalism that utilize the concepts in this book—particularly around legibility and the mechanization of people/minds. If you see this and you know of any, plz share! Such a good read for those of us in the interstitial spaces between the provably known and the experientially felt, and for those thinking about the pain and problems of objectivity.
Get an editor! Hoo boy. I would recommend the author’s AGAINST THE GRAIN much more highly than this. Feels scandalous that this work is much more widely known.
