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Soulbinding Like a State
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- Legibility is a concept from James Scott’s seminal work, Seeing Like a State . It’s not a book that lends itself well to one-sentence summaries, but my attempt is “we assume that only what we can measure is real and everything that is real can be measured.”
The book is titled Seeing Like a State , because the idea of legibility as I’m using it here ... See morefrom The Illegible Margin: Profiting From the Gap Between the Map and the Territory by taylorpearson.me
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- The negative consequences of forcing the forests to become legible to their planners didn’t become obvious until after second rotation of trees to be planted, about a century later. This is important to note: the first-order effects, what happens right away, are often beneficial; it’s the second and third-order effects of forcing legibility onto an... See more
from The Illegible Margin: Profiting From the Gap Between the Map and the Territory by taylorpearson.me
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