American Writers (One Hundred Pages at a Time)

Episode 22: James C. Scott, Seeing Like A State (3/3)

Feb 2, 2026

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The finale of my review of James C. Scott's Seeing Like a State. The last few chapters of this excellent book explore the experiments in agrarian high modernism and then explores metis, or embedded knowledge and the capacity of resilience against the designs of high modernist states.

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