Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. State Projects of Legibility and Simplification -- Chapter 1. Nature and Space -- Chapter 2 . Cities, People, and Language -- Part 2. Transforming Visions -- Chapter 3. Authoritarian High Modernism -- Chapter 4. The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique -- Chapter 5. The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis -- Part 3. The Social Engineering of Rural Settlement and Production -- Chapter 6. Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams -- Chapter 7. Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization -- Chapter 8. Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity -- Part 4. The Missing Link -- Chapter 9. Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Metis -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- Sources for Illustrations -- Index.