Legibility and waste
Seeing Like a StateThere is a wonderful book that has been appearing often enough in my various discussions that I’ve become compelled to read it. That book is Seeing Like a State, by James C Scott, and it describes how States change the world so that the world becomes “legible” to the State. The State needs things to be legible in order to administer them. Nomadic people need to be settled, forests need to be tamed, names need to be rendered orderly. It is only thus that the State can then d...
Legibility and waste
Seeing Like a StateThere is a wonderful book that has been appearing often enough in my various discussions that I’ve become compelled to read it. That book is Seeing Like a State, by James C Scott, and it describes how States change the world so that the world becomes “legible” to the State. The State needs things to be legible in order to administer them. Nomadic people need to be settled, forests need to be tamed, names need to be rendered orderly. It is only thus that the State can then d...
Leitmotifs of a world without waste
Hello, and welcomeSometimes, when the moon is full and the breeze settles still on the waters, I like to imagine a world that could be. In particular, I like to imagine a world where waste does not exist, where humanity lives in perfect harmony with the planet, and everything that is produced has its place. A world without waste. I imagine this because I’ve been working in the field for almost 25 years and the vision of a world without waste feels further off than it ever did. There are all s...
Leitmotifs of a world without waste
Hello, and welcomeSometimes, when the moon is full and the breeze settles still on the waters, I like to imagine a world that could be. In particular, I like to imagine a world where waste does not exist, where humanity lives in perfect harmony with the planet, and everything that is produced has its place. A world without waste. I imagine this because I’ve been working in the field for almost 25 years and the vision of a world without waste feels further off than it ever did. There are all s...
