Political communities are utopian projects.
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Mar 11
In “Seeing Like A State” James Scott (1998) poses that utopian dispositions are not intrinsically perilous as, citing Oscar Wilde (1891), “A map of the world which does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing” (p.89). In practice, he argues, utopia operates not quite as heroically as is here, and commonly, considered but instead as the idealised modern incentive for reconciliation, of a kind of stifled Weberian bu...

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