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  1. ribbonfarm.com

    A Big Little Idea Called Legibility July 26, 2010 By Venkatesh Rao James C. Scott's fascinating and seminal book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Imp rove the Human Condition Have Failed , examines how, across dozens of domains, ranging from agriculture and forestry, to urban planning and census-taking, a very predictable failure ...
  2. Legibility in Ethics The second conversation came up as part of a project I'm doing with Lorenn Ruster from the 3A Institute, which is exploring what role the value of dignity plays in shaping ...
  3. devonzuegel.com

    A Big Little Idea Called Legibility clipping. September 18th, 2019. July 26, 2010 By Venkatesh Rao. ... Central to Scott's thesis is the idea of legibility. He explains how he stumbled across the idea while researching efforts by nation states to settle or "sedentarize" nomads, pastoralists, gypsies and other peoples living non-mainstream ...
  4. ribbonfarm.com

    The terms are very evocative, and should remind you of the idea of legibility in physical environments that we talked about recently, in my post A Big Little Idea Called Legibility. In fact, it wouldn't be a gross oversimplification to say that warrens and plazas differ primarily in their legibility. There are many subtleties of course.
  5. johnweldon.com

    A Big Little Idea Called Legibility. Venkatesh Rao, of ribbonfarm.com, wrote about the idea of states and large organizations frequently imposing "order" on pre-existing chaotic systems, in an effort to improve legibility.. His primary source is the book Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, in which the author, James C. Scott, describes some ...
  6. ribbonfarm.com

    I started it in 2007 (here's some background), and as of February 2022, it has 1061 posts totaling almost 2 million words. For an easier introduction, try my ebook collections. Here are some of my better-known posts: The Gervais Principle; A Big Little Idea Called Legibility; Welcome to the Future Nauseous; King Ruinous and the City of Darkness
  7. creditbubblestocks.com

    "A Big Little Idea Called Legibility" This is a review of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed: "The book is about the 2-3 century long process by which modern states reorganized the societies they governed, to make them more legible to the apparatus of governance. The state is not actually ...
  8. A Big Little Idea Called Legibility James C. Scott's fascinating and seminal book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Imp rove the Human Condition Have Failed, examines how, across dozens of domains, ranging from agriculture and forestry, to urban planning and census-taking, a very predictable failure pattern keeps recurring.
  9. A Big Little Idea Called Legibility. submited by. Style Pass. 2023-01-04 16:00:07. ... here is a quick introduction to the main idea. Scott calls the thinking style behind the failure mode "authoritarian high modernism," but as we'll see, the failure mode is not limited to the brief intellectual reign of high modernism (roughly, the first ...
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